Great Art Cities Explained

London

We look at three museums whose collections were started by Mavericks. The Sir John Soane's Museum, The Wallace Collection and Kenwood House.

Paris

In the second of a new series, James Payne and Joanne Shurvell combine their love of Art and Travel, as they look at less well known museums in cities around the world. In "Great Art Cities Explained: Paris", we look at three small museums which were originally artist's ateliers, or studios: Eugène Delacroix, Suzanne Valadon and Constantin Brancusi. We discuss works by Delacroix, Cezanne, van Gogh, Suzanne Valadon and Constantin Brancusi, and how those artist's works connect.

Venice Special (Biennale)

In the third of a new series, James Payne and Joanne Shurvell combine their love of Art and Travel, as they travel to Venice for the world’s oldest and greatest art exhibition, the Venice Biennale.

New York

Abstract Expressionism would emerge from a post-war mood of anxiety and trauma. These were artists who, like the surrealists before them had a profound interest in the unconscious mind. They produced work that may have been abstract but was also emotional, expressive and universal. Despite their differences, the physical act of painting united them. The work they produced came straight from the gut. It was an art form that was monumental in scale and an expression of the individual. It would run alongside (and be inspired) by that other great improvisational American art form: Jazz.

Three Michelangelos in Florence

Gustav Klimt and the Nazis: Great Art Cities: Vienna

Istanbul