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Watercolour Challenge

June 2025 •English

Three amateur artists are given four hours to paint, in watercolour, the same scene or landscape, often with widely different interpretations. At the end of the four hours, the guest professional artist for the week judged the paintings and selected the winner, who would then appear in a regional final, and if successful would compete in the end of series final.

Art in Bloom with Helen Dealtry

June 2025 •English

Artist Helen Dealtry gives a glimpse into the creative process of painting.

Seven Year Switch

June 2025 •English

Four married couples try to save their marriages by entering into a social experiment. During this experiment, the four couples switch spouses and live with another participants spouse for two weeks as husband and wife.

Fake or Fortune?

June 2025 •English

Journalist Fiona Bruce teams up with art expert Philip Mould to investigate the provenance or attribution of notable artworks.

Watercolour Challenge

June 2025 •English

Fern Britton presents this revival of the fondly remembered daytime watercolour painting competition. Talented amateur artists are challenged to paint a picture of a scenic location with their efforts judged by a professional artist.

The Exhibit: Finding the Next Great Artist

June 2025 •English

Seven up-and-coming artists create original pieces that explore social issues for the chance to win $100,000 and show their work at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in this competition series judged by art-world insiders.

How to Look at and Understand Great Art

June 2025 •English

Contemplate the "anti-art" spirit of Dadaism, its nihilistic yet humorous indictment of civilization and bizarre use of unconventional media. In the sensibility of Surrealism, observe its compelling focus on the subconscious and two substyles - dream imagery, with its juxtaposition of objects and settings, and "automatic drawing," eliciting unplanned images from the unconscious.

Faire oeuvre utile

June 2025 •French

Gente maravillosa

June 2025 •Spanish

Inspiração Fora da Curva

June 2025 •Portuguese

Les maîtres de la peinture moderne

June 2025 •French

Navarasa

June 2025 •Tamil

From amusement to awe, the nine human emotions of Indian aesthetic theory are explored in this anthology series.

Moderní čeští malíři ve vzpomínkách prof. F. Dvořáka

June 2025 •Czech

Given

June 2025 •Japanese

Ritsuka’s lost his spark for music—until he hears Mafuyu sing. One voice pulls him back in, and suddenly, everything starts to change between them.

O Maidens in Your Savage Season

June 2025 •Japanese

The girls in a high school literature club do a little icebreaker to get to know each other: answering the question, "What's one thing you want to do before you die?" One of the girls blurts out, "Sex." Little do they know, the whirlwind unleashed by that word pushes each of these girls, with different backgrounds and personalities, onto their own clumsy, funny, painful, and emotional paths toward adulthood.

Inside Art

June 2025 •English

Inside Art' celebrates the UK arts scene, talks to curator, artists and art lovers, and explores the stories behind the artwork. Presenter Kate Bryan conducts the viewer through new and unusual art exhibitions across the United Kingdom.

Baroque! From St Peter's to St Paul's

June 2025 •English

In this three-part documentary series Waldemar Januszczak discovers paintings, sculptures and architecture of the Baroque period. Starting from the square of Saint Peter's Basilica in Italy to St Paul's Cathedral in England.

The Beauty of Anatomy

June 2025 •English

Dr Adam Rutherford investigates the close relationship between discoveries in anatomy and the works of art that illustrate them.

Artsnight

June 2025 •English

An art magazine show guest-edited by a different personality each week.

The Western Tradition

June 2025 •English

Covering the ancient world through the age of technology, this illustrated lecture by Eugen Weber presents a tapestry of political and social events woven with many strands — religion, industry, agriculture, demography, government, economics, and art. A visual feast of over 2,700 images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art portrays key events that shaped the development of Western thought, culture, and tradition.