Known for his spectacular pyrotechnic displays, Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang creates his most ambitious project yet: Sky Ladder, a visionary, explosive event that he pulls off in his hometown in China after 20 years of failed attempts.

主持人杰里米·帕克斯曼，从他热爱的维多利亚时期画作出发，带领我们审视维多利亚时期的生活。（文：life_is_good@YDY） Jeremy Paxman takes his love of Victorian paintings as the starting point for a journey into Victorian Britain. Such pictures may not be fashionable today, but they are a goldmine of information about the most dynamic age in British history.

图像是历史的遗留，同事也记录着历史，是解读历史的重要证据。从图像中，我们不仅能看到过去的影像，更能通过对这些影像的解读探索它们背后潜藏着的信息。政治的、经济的、军事的、文化的……“一幅画所说的话何止千言万语”。面对数量难以穷尽的图像。历史学家也就面对着惊人的宝藏，但宝藏下面，也隐藏着难以觉察的陷阱。彼得?伯克以其杰出新文化史家的广阔视野，对包括工艺品、画像、雕塑、电影、电视、平面广告等的多种视觉材料进行了分析，关注的重点并非这些图像本身，而是如何利用它解读历史，以及在此过程中存在的机遇与危险。

According to Giorgio Vasari, the first art historian, the Renaissance was centred on a revival of interest in classical art that began and flourished in Italy. Waldemar disagrees, and accuses Vasari of errant jingoism. In fact, the most significant early developments in Renaissance art took place not in Italy, but in the ‘barbarian’ lands of Flanders and Germany. Instead of understanding the Renaissance as a return to classical models, we should see it as a climax of medieval values - an epoch of huge religious passions and powerful human emotions. The series will celebrate material that is new to television. Waldemar will include art that is not usually thought of as Renaissance art. This will involve 're-classifying' what is sometimes called Late Gothic, and showing it off as a marvellous and native artistic tradition, particularly in the remarkable field of polychrome sculpture. On top of all the new art to be introduced, Waldemar will also look from fresh and intriguing angles at many of the established Renaissance giants, including Michelangelo in the Vatican, Leonardo in the Louvre, Botticelli in the Uffizi and Van Eyck in Ghent.

BBC新版《文明》，2018倾情奉献，共九集。涵盖六个大陆，三十一个国家，超过五百件艺术品。主讲人历史学家西蒙·沙玛、学者玛丽·比尔德以及戴维·奥卢索加将一起探索人类创造的渴望。此外，“文明节”将通过创新的数字产品和活动，为博物馆的珍宝赋予新的生命力。

2017 film by Agnès Varda

1986 film directed by Derek Jarman