Scruton’s is a philosophical essay set to pictures and music. He starts with the importance of beauty in art up until the 20th century, and says its purpose was to transfigure the real in the light of ...

It is a fairly busy afternoon at Tate Britain and visitors are either in awe of Phyllida Barlow's gigantic, home-made art installation or baffled by it. But the gallery likes strong opinions – on the ...

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and Waldemar Januszczak take on experts in a Jaguar XJS. Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and Waldemar Januszczak turn things upside down on the experts. Teaming up against veterans ...

In a new series Waldemar Januszczak (pictured) sets out to uncover the secret meanings hidden in four famous paintings by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and Seurat. Everyone knows the pictures. They are ...

There were two key questions that went unanswered in Waldemar Januszczak's The Dark Ages – An Age of Light (BBC4). The first came right at the beginning. "This is a series about an artistic period ...

Waldemar Januszczak, one of Britain’s most distinguished art critics and documentary producers, has visited Ferens Art Gallery. Today, he viewed a painting he adopted which was created by one of his ...

Ugly Beauty (BBC2) began, as so few programmes do these days, with a quote from Confucius: "Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it." Art critic Waldemar Januszczak's defence of modern art ...

Art critic, Waldemar Januszczak revisits the Impressionists in a new four-part BBC Two series launched on Saturday 16th July 2011 at 8pm. In each episode, Waldemar uncovers the surprising truth about ...

The BBC makes watching Arts programming feel like “homework,” the art critic Waldemar Januszczak, who is a regular presenter for the corporation, has claimed. Januszczak, whose re-evaluation of the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Something about the uncertain strut almost wobbling into a waddle and the faintly aggressive manner recall what is ...

Episode two: Seurat. Hanging in the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Seurat’s Les Poseuses is a beautiful but puzzling picture. It shows three nudes in the artist’s studio, but also included in the ...

In a new series Waldemar Januszczak (pictured) sets out to uncover the secret meanings hidden in four famous paintings by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and Seurat. Everyone knows the pictures. They are ...