When lapis lazuli arrived from the East, blue became the most mysterious of colours.

Ibrahim El-Salahi reveals personal drawings made in response to the Arab Spring.

Andrew Graham-Dixon gains an exclusive private view of John Trumbull鈥檚 series of paintings depicting the American Revolutionary War and the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The collection is on permanent display inside the Rotunda of the United States Capitol in Washington D.C. A rather incongruous sight greets visitors who glance up at the inside of this iconic dome.

Andrew Graham-Dixon meets artist Jeff Koons in his Manhattan studio

Alan Yentob presents a special on British sculptor Henry Moore.

Deller is curating an exhibition in Oxford featuring his two greatest artistic influences

Art theft is big business, valued by Interpol at 3 billion pounds a year. Museum director Sandy Nairne and novelist Ian Rankin discuss the rising trade in stolen artworks, and Nairne reads from his own new book 'Art Theft: The Case of the Stolen Turners' which chronicles his efforts over many years to recover two Turner originals.

Alastair Sooke explores the vaults deep within the RA

Alastair Sooke meets with one of the UK鈥檚 most respected contemporary artists 鈥� Christine Borland.

Kirsty Wark talks to Rachel Maclean

Kirsty Wark speaks to Christine Borland at the Dick Institute in Kilmarnock, Scotland

Simon Schama turns his attention to the story of Jacques-Louis David's 'Death of Marat'

The story of the women who inspired Picasso, giving a new insight into him and his work.

Manic Street Preachers bassist Nicky Wire talk about The Uses of Literacy, an exhibition curated by Deller.

Journalist, Giles Coren, on his experience of sitting for Jonathan Yeo

Alastair Sooke takes Bendor Grosvenor to see Ai Wei Wei's 'S.A.C.R.E.D'

Jeremy describes how he came to meet Andy Warhol as a young man.

Alastair Sooke explores the often overlooked history of Britain's wartime renaissance. Alastair Sooke speaks to Alf Morris, a Blitz survivor about his involvement in the Bethnal Green tube disaster.

Kirsty Wark speaks to Douglas Gordon at Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art

Andrew Graham Dixon goes in search of the finest lime wood sculpture of the German Renaissance.

Sir David Attenborough looks back at the art of John Craxton.

Alastair Sooke examines misericords, wooden carvings from the chapel at Windsor Castle.

Graham-Dixon charts the dark and dangerous life of Caravaggio, and the models, patrons and popes behind some of the most dramatic paintings of the Italian renaissance.

One of John Hoyland's closest friends and contemporaries was Sir Anthony Caro, now also a fellow RA, who shares his fond memories of the rebellious artist with Andrew Graham-Dixon.