Japanese Body Painting Artist

A film about David Hockney on the BBC escaped my notice - perhaps because it was on at 3.30am in the morning! Anyway, all Hockneyphiles with access to iPlayer have until 5.30am on Monday 4th April to view Hockney. (It was shown last year at 9pm 14 Mar 2015 - but true fans always watch twice!) It's a wonderful biography full of his own photographs and videos - I dare say I shall watch it more

The only channel on British television which does programmes about art and artists on a regular basis - using people who are credible commentators is the BBC. In other programmes about art that are educational and informative and not just "entertainment". It's one very big reason why the BBC must remain a public broadcaster and NOT become commercial. Art documentaries on BBCiPlayer So - what

Yesterday, BBC4 broadcast a film about the story of 17th-century Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi called Michael Palin's Quest for Artemisia. I'm assuming Michael's name figures first in the title as he's beginning to get a bit of a reputation for doing programmes about leading artists. Michael Palin and the Mystery of Hammershoi Michael Palin in Wyeth's World I'm highlighting this

I'm guessing that there are people like me who have been watching The Great Pottery Throw Down on BBC2 and thinking "must pay a bit more attention to ceramics"! So last week I took the lift to the sixth floor of the Victoria & Albert Museum and walked the whole length of the V&A - from end to end and round the corner - because that's how big the galleries need to be that house the V&A's Ceramics

The BBC is currently telling The Story of Scottish Art on BBC Scotland - but is not broadcasting this south of the border. However I've only just found out that , very sensobly, all the programmes are now available to all of us who can access BBC iPlayer. I haven't watched them all as yet but the little I've seen suggest they are all going to be fascinating. I'm 'flying blind' when it comes to