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Sidsel Christensen
Trained at Goldsmiths and the Royal College of Art, Christensen is a curator and video artist who has recently exhibited in London and Norway.
Trained at Goldsmiths and the Royal College of Art, Christensen is a curator and video artist who has recently exhibited in London and Norway.
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The Beautiful Universe
Is beauty hardwired into our world?
The Mystery of Music
Explaining the transcendental
Banksy and the Media Barons
Julian Stallabrass charts the rise of a generation of media-savvy artists raking in millions.
Michelangelo vs Damien Hirst
Has contemporary art lost its way?
Duchamp's Deception
Julian Spalding | Was Duchamp a fraud?
Truth and Poetry
Andrew Motion | Where does poetry gets its power?
The Secrets of the Uncanny
What does our sense of the uncanny say about us?
Seizing the Means of Production
Brian Eno: What the Future Could Look Like
The Emperor's New Art
From where does art get its value?
Con Art
Should we redefine conceptual art?
On Ugliness
Why 'ugliness' is a virtue
Becoming Human
Can art change who you are?
Beauty Bites Back
Could beauty be real rather than subjective?
Music's Mystery
The secret to music's emotion
Life, Beauty and Being
Is beauty something we now buy?
American Surreal
Artist Susan Hiller looks back on her career with Serpentine co-director Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Broken Beauty
How can art combat the power of oil and money?
The Best is to Come
What is the future of art?
What is the Power of Art?
The work of art in the age of mass consumption
Dying for Dior
Is fashion an aesthetic art form?
Nicolas Roeg
The legendary director makes the case for cinema defined by risks, accidents and adventure.
On the Air with Annie Nightingale
Reflections on a life at music's cutting edge
Art and the Artful
Concept, craftsmanship and art
The Good, the Bad and the Artist
Should we separate the artist from the art?
Is Beauty Back?
The future of art
The Naked Truth
How does the body in art relate to physical-being? Is nudity ever more than a sales tactic?
The Limits of Art
Art Couture
Reinventing Film
The rise of independent cinema
The Emperor's New God
Can art replace religion?
Of Wonder and Terror
Science, art, and the sublime
The Schlock of the New
The strange vulnerability of giant corporations
The Screen Age
A Wonder Full World
Is the sublime real?
Blowing in the Wind
Pop-star revolutionaries
Time and Tate
the story of art in Britain
The New Beautiful
The Art of Activism
Patricia MacCormack | Creative protest for impact
Hitler's Art War
Taking Over the Gallery
Yes, It Really is Beautiful!
Pollock on Pollock Squared
The Cinema of Ideas
Abstract Graffiti
New British Art Double-Bill
Maps of Mystery
Can art help us catch sight of the ineffable? Or, do we mystify existence at our peril?
Six Billion Characters in Search of an Author
The View From Outside
Cultures of the Body
The Music of Revolt