Essential figures in art and culture.
The films, methods and preservation work of Martin Scorsese, a central American director whose cinema examines guilt, faith, violence and ambition.
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The life, controlled pouring technique and legacy of Jackson Pollock, a central figure of Abstract Expressionism whose paintings record movement and time.
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The technical study and restoration of the Prado Mona Lisa, a workshop version produced alongside Leonardo's painting and revealed in 2012.
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The life, mathematics, photography and literary legacy of Lewis Carroll, whose Alice books turned unstable rules and nonsense into lasting imaginative art.
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A cultural history of readers in painting and photography, from sacred books and scholarly authority to private imagination, education and democratic access.
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The life, films, training principles and cultural legacy of Bruce Lee, the actor and martial artist who transformed action cinema and global perceptions of Asian masculinity.
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The life, paintings and legacy of René Magritte, the Belgian Surrealist who turned familiar objects into precise and unsettling questions about reality.
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The life, works, deafness and legacy of Ludwig van Beethoven, whose symphonies, sonatas and quartets transformed Western musical expression.
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The life, Fauvist revolution, paintings, paper cut-outs and legacy of Henri Matisse, one of the artists who made colour an independent force in modern art.
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