Make Me Up review – freaky, subversive feminist satire
In Rachel Maclean’s deeply strange film, the voice of historian Kenneth Clark haunts a virtual reality world of Stepford Wives and robotic Barbie dolls
March 2018
Book of the day
Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith by Mary Beard – review
Islamic calligraphy and whistling statues – we’ve come a long way from the Kenneth Clark’s patrician worldview
February 2018
Civilisations' striking similarity to 1969 series signals slow evolution of arts TV
BBC looks beyond the west to retell the story of civilisation
Civilisations: new BBC series 'goes to the heart of human creativity'
The Sunday essay
Civilisation revisited
David Olusoga
January 2017
John Berger obituary
Critic whose TV series Ways of Seeing posed questions about art and society, and a writer whose fiction reflected his life in rural France
October 2016
Book of the week
Kenneth Clark by James Stourton review – Mary Beard on Civilisation without women
Clark’s patrician manner, and the ‘great man’ approach of his famous TV series, now seem outdated. This biography retrieves his influence, but has worrying sexual politics
September 2016
Book of the day
Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and Civilisation by James Stourton – review
An astute study of the broadcaster and art historian reveals a complex individual ashamed of his privileges
August 2016
100 best nonfiction books of all time
The 100 best nonfiction books: No 27 – The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art by Kenneth Clark (1956)
Kenneth Clark’s survey of the nude from the Greeks to Picasso foreshadows the critic’s towering claims for humanity in his later seminal work, Civilisation
May 2016
From the Guardian archive
Kenneth Clark's Civilisation reviewed - archive
19 May 1969: Visually this has been a thoroughly exciting series. All manner of art objects, paintings, carvings, manuscripts, buildings, have been brought before us
August 2015
Book of the day
My Dear BB… : The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark review
The high-octane correspondence between 20th-century art world doyen Bernard Berenson and the young pretender Kenneth Clarke is enthralling
May 2015
Digested read
My Dear BB: The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark, 1925-59 – digested read
John Crace condenses the epistolary affections and affectations of the famous art historians into a 700-word miniature
April 2015
Jonathan Jones on art
Civilisation 2: how should Kenneth Clark’s masterpiece be rebooted?
Jonathan Jones
The witty series could be remade with Benedict Cumberbatch as its presenter – or perhaps a naughty standup should take the helm? Series consultant Jonathan Jones dreams up a 21st-century version
July 2014
Not the World Cup
Civilisation: this, not the World Cup, is why we need the BBC
Stuart Jeffries: Kenneth Clark's masterful TV series Civilisation is an unashamedly intellectual counterpoint to the barbarism of the World Cup
A new exhibition aims to show that the presenter of the landmark 1969 TV series was also an important champion of British art
Kenneth Clark: an art lover's treasure trove – in pictures
Tate Britain is celebrating Britain's most controversial art historian with an exhibition of work from his personal collection. Here are some of the finest on show
Jonathan Jones on art
Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation review – 'A destructive waste of time'
