Sensationalists: The Bad Girls and Boys of British Art

9.060m20221 season

Documentary

Rebellious, provocative and unapologetic. The Young British Artists crashed the 90s art scene, making Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst and others household names. This is their story.

Directed by Min Clough

Cast

Keith Allen

Self (Narrator)

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Upstarts

2022-09-27 · 59m

A look at the origins of the Young British Artists in the art schools of the mid-80s, a shocking and provocative movement which would culminate in the notorious 1997 exhibition Sensation.

Is It Art?

2022-10-04 · 59m

In the 90s, young creatives, grouped together by advertising guru Charles Saatchi, respond provocatively to the decade's wave of optimism. The results are explosive - but is it art?

Fame and Fortune

2022-10-11 · 59m

The Royal Academy’s iconoclastic Sensation is itself a sensation. 300,000 attend the show, causing protests and resignations. Meanwhile, Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin reach mega-star status.