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‘I want to reclaim the often misplaced voice’

Some of Britain’s best young artistic talent grapple with how their identities are shaped by race, sex and gender.

Two Booker winners

The Booker rules say the prize must not be divided, but the judges insisted they "couldn't separate" the two works

BBC News

Social housing scheme wins RIBA Stirling Prize

Goldsmith Street in Norwich has been named the winner of the Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize 2019

BBC Arts

Drag and Vogue

Paris Is Burning

A vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City’s African American and Latinx Harlem drag ball scene

BBC FOUR

Trixie Mattel's Guide to Drag Cinema

Category is: silver screen glamour realness. From the most sickening looks in golden-era cinema to divine cult hits

BBC IPLAYER

In Vogue

The subculture grabbing mainstream attention, again. ELENA CRESCI explores how vogue ball culture is thriving in Britain

BBC Arts

Trending video from BBC Introducing Arts

We Got It Easy

A bright morning is tainted by the everyday struggles that youth in Britain endure

New Creatives

Notes on Being a Lady

A challenge of the rules society sets on black femininity, based on a Kadish Morris poem

New Creatives

Elephant in the Room

A personal reflection on how the artist’s mixed-race heritage has shaped her outlook on life

New Creatives

Dying to Live

Multi-layered narrative probing the experience of a young black man growing up in Bristol

New Creatives

Taking you to the heart of the movies

Two-Wheeled Terrors

Tearing up cinema for 60 years: youngsters on motorbikes, scooters and bicycles

BBC IPLAYER

The Wilhelm Scream

The ultimate movie in-joke: How a sound effect conquered cinema, appearing in hundreds of films from the '50s to now

BBC iPlayer

Space Dads

How the unknowable reaches of space are often the perfect location for examining the bonds of parenthood

BBC iPlayer

Arts on BBC iPlayer

Beats, Bass & Bars – The Story of Grime

How Grime rose from the council estates of East London to become the most important British musical movement since punk.

BBC Four

Front Row Late

Mary Beard and guests discuss whether young people are represented fairly in our culture

BBC Two

Studio 17: The Lost Reggae Tapes

The compelling story of the Chins - the family behind Studio 17 established above Randy’s Records in downtown Kingston

BBC Four

Handmade in Bolton

Dr Janina Ramirez sets ex-forger Shaun Greenhalgh the task of carving an Islamic bottle out of rock crystal

BBC Four

New from Art UK

The real deal

How the Art Detective site uncovered a Van Dyck masterpiece in Liverpool

ART UK

Embedded in the subtext

An inclusive tour of European art in London’s museums and galleries

ART UK

Yinka Shonibare

The artist discusses sculpture, elitism and Brexit

ART UK

Arts on BBC Sounds

Starry Night and Janna Levin

30 of the world’s most creative minds choose their favourite work from the Museum of Modern Art in New York

BBC Radio 3

Steve Martin and the Lonely Synchromists

Actor Steve Martin finds two "lonely" works by Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Morgan Russell that speak to him

BBC Radio 3

Have You Heard George's Podcast?

The Poet muses on the interplay between crime and music in his community

BBC Radio 4

Front Row

Debbie Harry on her life and career and her new memoir, Face It

BBC Radio 4

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Arena

The BBC's multi award-winning arts strand

Free Thinking

The ideas shaping our lives today - with artists and thinkers in debates and interviews

Front Row

Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music

imagine...

The arts series edited and presented by Alan Yentob

BBC Books

All of the BBC's coverage of the written word in one place

Get Creative

The UK's biggest celebration of creative participation

Inside Cinema

Short films taking you to the heart of the movies

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