BBC年度巨献《艺术的力量》(Simon Schama's Power of Art)荣获“国际艾美奖最佳艺术节目”、“英国电影电视艺术学院奖最佳摄影”(纪录片类)等多项国际大奖。该系列结合了戏剧化的重塑、壮观的摄影技术以及西蒙·沙玛独特而富有个性化的叙事，将带领观众回到八件伟大的艺术品诞生的重要历史时刻，重现伦勃朗、凡高、毕加索等八位著名艺术大师的创作历程。 八位艺术大师拥有自成一派的创作风格和鲜明的个性，本片将全面剖析艺术大师们鲜为人知、扣人心弦的故事。回到危险又以救世主自居的罗马、富裕如暴发户般的阿姆斯特丹、偏执狂般而又富有革命性的巴黎、维多利亚女王时代在富足和正义的表象下令人窒息的英格兰、普罗旺斯的精神病院和妓院、西班牙内战时的大屠杀，以及20世纪50年代同时陷入冷战的神经过敏与曼哈顿浮华的纽约。在每一个地方，伟大的艺术家都会被逼入困境，而面对危机时，他们又一次获得了挫败他们的对手、敌人和反对者的机会……

八集BBC年度巨献纪录片《艺术的力量》，将为您详细讲述卡拉瓦乔、贝尼尼、伦勃朗、雅克、透纳、梵高、毕加索以及罗斯科八位艺术家的生平，重现这八位艺术大师的创作历程。八位艺术大师拥有自成一派的创作风格和鲜明的个性，本片将全面剖析艺术大师们孕育和诞生艺术品时扣人心弦的故事。在主持人西蒙‧沙玛独特而富有个性化的叙事下，这将是一次饱览艺术大师们所创作的最伟大作品的饕餮盛宴。戏剧化的艺术重塑，壮阔华美的摄影画面，八位艺术界巨匠背后鲜为人知的故事被刻画得曲尽其妙，或扼腕叹息或拍手称快，这便是艺术的力量。 这部独特而极具震撼力的纪录片《艺术的力量》，荣获国际艾美奖最佳艺术节目、2007年第60届英国电影电视艺术学院奖最佳摄影纪实类等多项国际大奖。

Sue Perkins带你一起探究英国室内装饰的变革。 The Art on Your Wall Sue Perkins charts the changes in British taste towards domestic art by delving into the stories of contemporary bestsellers, charting the history of post-war prints and aiming to see first hand what the average British person displays above their mantelpiece. Half of British living rooms have art on their wall bought from high street stores, and many of the British artists who created them are among the country's most successful - but we've never heard of them. Sue also tracks down the creators of recent history's most popular prints to discover their opinions on the images that changed their lives. Some of these iconic images are reproductions of famous artists, and some are unknowns, but who are these artists, and why are they so popular? She discusses Tretchikoff, the artist behind the bestselling prints of the 50s and 60s such as the Green Lady, with Red or Dead founder Wayne Hemmingway, and meets Scottish miner-turned-painter Jack Vettriano, the artist who created the popular Singing Butler. Sue tracks down Ullswater snapper Mel Allen and chats to Spencer Rowell, the photographer behind Athena's Man and Baby, before heading to Cornwall to get to the bottom of the two million selling Tennis Girl by meeting its flamboyant creator Martin Elliot. Finally, Sue meets Sam Toft, creator of Mr Mustard, the quirky figure featured in a series of bestselling prints. Sue also meets Terence Conran to find out about the revolution in interior design that took place after the Second World War, including the introduction of Habitat onto the high street, which made good design accessible to the whole community, and how that in turn has influenced the post-war taste of Great Britain.

艺术是人类对世界的感知;艺术是人类对自身的体验;艺术塑造并阐释着人类过去和未来的生活。　　穿越十万年的历史长河,一起去寻觅视觉艺术的起源,绘画、人体、影像、死亡。　　艺术创世纪——引领你我走进艺术的世界,探索人类艺术的起源。

一个面积相当于一个大陆的国家,拥有13亿人口,如何去了解这样一个国度,以及塑造她的各种力量?探索中国的艺术无疑是最好的方法。中国山水中透出的宁静平和是古代诗人与画家的心灵港湾,凭借一个世纪以来考古学上的惊人发现,中国人凭借双手创造出的最引人注目的杰作从尘土中苏醒，中国古代艺术由此揭示了这个国家的文化之根。

冬季并非从来就是美丽的。在彼得·勃鲁盖尔^的画作《雪中猎人》（Hunters in the Snow）问世之前，这煎熬的几个月从不被认为是美好的东西。本纪录片将通过西方艺术作品，向观众们展示历史上人们是如何与冬天做着持久不懈的斗争的，其 中不少已经成为惊世杰作，代代传诵。Grayson Perry, Will Self, Don McCullin等参与了本片制作，来自各行的百姓和专家将从他们各自的视角来反思这些为我们定义了雪与冰之艺术的杰作。

At the British Museum, a collection of artefacts from the Muslim world is on show which tells the history of a journey to Mecca always forbidden to non-Muslims. It features a succession of examples of the rich visual language of Islamic culture past and present, artwork created to reflect the powerful experience for any Muslim making the Hajj pilgrimage to Islam's most sacred city and its most sacred building, the Ka'aba. However, an artform not usually associated with Islam is also on show, a form many believe is prohibited by Islam - portraits, depictions of human figures and whole tableaux showing pilgrims performing the most important pillar of the Muslim faith. In this documentary, Rageh Omaar sets out to find out that if human depiction is the source of such controversy, how is it that the art displayed here shows a tradition of figurative art at the heart of Islam for century after century? He explores what forms of art are acceptable for a Muslim - and why this artistic tradition has thrived - in the hidden art of the muslim world.

现代艺术中的美丽消失了吗？ 有的思想家这么认为，他们觉得现代艺术已经无法把握真正的美。然而艺术评论家Waldemar Januszczak却不同意。 Has beauty disappeared from modern art? Several influential modern thinkers insist that it has. And this belief has inspired them to publish a clutch of recent books which claim that modern art is no longer capable of capturing true beauty: that beauty has gone from art. Art critic Waldemar Januszczak fiercely disagrees, believing that great art is as interested in beauty as ever. Art's search for beauty has manifested itself in depictions of the idealised female form, glorious landscapes, lovely flower studies and perfectly arranged renaissance altar pieces - but where does this search continue today? We know so much about the atomical make-up of our universe that the search for beauty can seem old-fashioned or unscientific. And because so much horror and darkness have passed through modern times, the quest for 'beauty' can even be dismissed as escapist and irrelevant. But of course, it isn't. Waldemar Januszczak would argue that the need for transcendent beauty in art is greater than it has ever been. And - most importantly - art knows this. Beauty is out there. You just have to know where to find it. However, beauty today can be electronic or scientific; subtle and elusive. It can be found in the LCD sculptures of Tatsuo Miyajima or the subtle light installations of James Turrell. Carl Andre discovers a stern modern beauty in squares of industrial materials dropped around a goods yard. The cancer paintings of Damien Hirst find a terrible modern beauty in the deformed human anatomy. These and other great searchers after beauty are the subject of this film. The world today needs beauty more than it has ever needed it - and modern art is one of its few suppliers.