Alastair Sooke
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The World's Most Expensive Paintings (2011)
Art critic Alastair Sooke tracks down the ten most expensive paintings to sell at auction, and investigates the stories behind the astronomic prices...
The World's Most Expensive Stolen Paintings (2013)
Art critic Alastair Sooke delves into the murky world of art theft. Despite the high stakes - and often daring - involved, many cases are shrouded in...
Pride and Prejudice: Having a Ball (2013)
In Pride And Prejudice: Having A Ball, social historian Amanda Vickery leads the action as a team of experts recreate a Regency ball in honour of the...
BBC One - Modern Masters TV docu-series (2010)
Journalist Alastair Sooke sets out to discover just how much artists like Andy Warhol, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali have influenced...
Soup Cans and Superstars: How Pop Art Changed the World (2015)
Alastair Sooke champions pop art as one of the most important art forms of the twentieth century, peeling back pop's frothy, ironic surface to reveal...
Whaam! Roy Lichtenstein at Tate Modern (2013)
Alastair Sooke takes us on an exclusive personal tour of the Roy Lichtenstein Retrospective at Tate Modern. Offering an in-depth look at one of the...
Robert Rauschenberg: Pop Art Pioneer (2016)
Rauschenberg was the first artist to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 1964, creating a crucial bridge between the abstract...
Constable: A Country Rebel (2014)
The Haywain by John Constable is such a comfortingly familiar image of rural Britain that it is difficult to believe it was ever regarded as a...
The Perfect Suit (2014)
Alastair Sooke explores the evolution of the gentleman's suit, which has evolved from working man's Sunday best to the casual wear of royalty over...
How the Devil Got His Horns: A Diabolical Tale (2012)
Art historian Alastair Sooke traces the humanization of the Devil figure in medieval art from the tenth to the fourteenth centuries.
The World's Most Expensive Stolen Paintings (2013)
How the Devil Got His Horns: A Diabolical Tale (2012)
How the Devil Got His Horns: A Diabolical Tale (2012)
Romancing the Stone: The Golden Ages of British Sculpture (2011)
Alastair Sooke examines three periods in the history of British sculpture and the masterpieces they produced.
Treasures of Ancient Rome (2012)
Treasures of Ancient Rome is a 2012 three-part documentary written and presented by Alastair Sooke. The series was produced by the BBC, and...
Treasures of Ancient Greece (2015)
Alastair Sooke explores the riches and unique legacy of Greek art.
Treasures of Ancient Egypt (2014)
Alastair Sooke tells the story of Ancient Egyptian art through 30 extraordinary masterpieces.
An Art Lovers' Guide (2017)
With sumptuous palaces, exquisite artworks and stunning architecture, every great city offers a dizzying multitude of cultural highlights. So what...
An Art Lovers' Guide (1970)
Alastair Sooke explores the riches and unique legacy of Greek art.
An Art Lovers' Guide (1970)
Alastair Sooke tells the story of Ancient Egyptian art through 30 extraordinary masterpieces.
An Art Lovers' Guide (1970)
Alastair Sooke examines three periods in the history of British sculpture and the masterpieces they produced.
An Art Lovers' Guide (1970)
Treasures of Ancient Rome is a 2012 three-part documentary written and presented by Alastair Sooke. The series was produced by the BBC, and...