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Culture In Quarantine: Bringing arts and culture into the home

How the BBC will keep the arts alive in people’s homes, giving British culture an audience that can’t be there in person

Blog: About the BBC

More time with books

With his UK tour off, David Baddiel tells Stig Abell about taking on the challenge of reading Saul Bellow

FRONT ROW

The real superhero origin stories

How classic films influenced comic book writers and artists to create Batman and more

BBC ARTS

Performance For Home

The Royal Ballet: Mayerling

Kenneth MacMillan’s dark and intense ballet, Mayerling

BBC FOUR

6 Music Festival: International Women's Day

Live performances from the Camden Roundhouse from Roisin Murphy, Kate Tempest, Kim Gordon and more

BBC Music

Burt Bacharach: A Life in Song

Artists including Alfie Boe, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Joss Stone celebrate the great songwriter

BBC FOUR

Arts on BBC iPlayer

The Art Mysteries with Waldemar Januszczak

The startling secret within Van Gogh's Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear

BBC FOUR

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

Unpacking the music and the myth of the man behind the horn

BBC TWO

Age of the Image

James Fox explores images including Leni Riefenstahl’s propaganda films and the moon landings

BBC FOUR

Fierce Women

Bjork

Exploring Bjork’s significance as a fearless force in feminine self-expression

BBC IPLAYER

Greta Thunberg

Examining the importance of the climate change activist and school strike instigator

BBC IPLAYER

Naomi Campbell

Fresh new voices discuss the cultural significance of Naomi Campbell's 30 year career

BBC IPLAYER

Fresh talent from BBC Introducing Arts

Female Filmmakers: BBC Introducing Arts

Talented, emerging artists who use comedy, drama and dance to tell stories from a contemporary female perspective

BBC FOUR

'My lips belong to no one'

Celebrating the next generation of female filmmakers for International Women's Day

BBC ARTS

Ding-Ding, Next

Modern day technology meets old-fashioned speed dating

NEW CREATIVES

Inside Cinema: Taking you to the heart of the movies

Fast and Furious Families

They say you can’t choose family, but the Vin Diesel franchise begs to differ...

BBC IPLAYER

Movie Buddies

We salute cinema’s iconic duos and explore what makes the perfect film friendship

BBC IPLAYER

Meet the Family

From Home Alone to Tokyo Story, families in cinema, in all their maddening, dysfunctional glory

BBC FOUR

Life Cinematic

"I love seeing someone’s masculinity shift "

Sam Taylor-Johnson, director of Fifty Shades of Grey and A Million Little Pieces, picks her favourite film moments

BBC ARTS

"To do it in one shot is just ambitious, bordering on insane"

Edgar Wright, the director behind Hot Fuzz and Baby Driver, selects his perfect scenes

BBC ARTS

"I think it’s certainly the greatest American film ever made"

Sir Sam Mendes, director of 1917 and American Beauty, chooses his most influential cinema clips

BBC ARTS

The nude season

Mary Beard: 'The West is obsessed with nudity'

The classicist and broadcaster examines art's obsession with the nude

BBC ARTS

The Story of the Nude

Kate Bryan uses BBC archive to discover how TV has influenced our understanding of the nude

BBC FOUR

Botticelli's Venus: The Making of an Icon

Sam Roddick explores one of the most celebrated paintings in western art

BBC FOUR

New from Art UK

Keeping up with the kimono

Art UK speaks to V&A curator Anna Jackson about one of Japan’s most famous cultural exports

ARK UK

Very Superstitious

The Art Matters podcast explores the impact of tarot on art

ART UK

In conversation with Sean Scully

Maya Binkin interviews the prolific abstract artist on decoding sculpture

ART UK

BBC Arts on social media

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More arts across the BBC

Arena

The BBC's multi award-winning arts strand

Free Thinking

The ideas shaping our lives today - with artists and thinkers in debates and interviews

Front Row

Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music

imagine...

The arts series edited and presented by Alan Yentob

BBC Books

All of the BBC's coverage of the written word in one place

Get Creative

The UK's biggest celebration of creative participation

Inside Cinema

Short films taking you to the heart of the movies

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