Alastair Sooke
Born 1981, Alastair Sooke is an English art critic, journalist and broadcaster, most notable for reporting and commenting on art for the British media and writing and presenting documentaries on art and art history for BBC television and radio.
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Place of Birth | England, UK |
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2011
The World's Most Expensive Paintings
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Art critic Alastair Sooke tracks down the ten most expensive paintings to sell at auction, and investigates the stories behind the astronomic prices a...
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The World's Most Expensive Paintings
2013
The World's Most Expensive Stolen Paintings
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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...
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The World's Most Expensive Stolen Paintings
2013
Pride and Prejudice: Having a Ball
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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...
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Pride and Prejudice: Having a Ball
2010
BBC One - Modern Masters TV docu-series
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Journalist Alastair Sooke sets out to discover just how much artists like Andy Warhol, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali have influenced...
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BBC One - Modern Masters TV docu-series
2015
Soup Cans and Superstars: How Pop Art Changed the World
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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...
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Soup Cans and Superstars: How Pop Art Changed the World
2013
Whaam! Roy Lichtenstein at Tate Modern
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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 ye...
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Whaam! Roy Lichtenstein at Tate Modern
2016
Robert Rauschenberg: Pop Art Pioneer
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Rauschenberg was the first artist to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 1964, creating a crucial bridge between the abstract expressionists...
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Robert Rauschenberg: Pop Art Pioneer
2014
Constable: A Country Rebel
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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 revolut...
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Constable: A Country Rebel
2014
The Perfect Suit
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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 the...
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The Perfect Suit
2012
How the Devil Got His Horns: A Diabolical Tale
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Art historian Alastair Sooke traces the humanization of the Devil figure in medieval art from the tenth to the fourteenth centuries.
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