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Ice Age Art

Andrew Graham-Dixon travels to Northern Spain to visit some of the world's oldest works of art and visits the British Museum's exhibition Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind.

Andrew Graham-Dixon travels to Northern Spain to visit some of the world's oldest works of art, hundreds of metres beneath the surface of the earth. In limestone caves he is astonished to find a series of vivid paintings, some of which are over 33,000 years old, which appear to link modern man to our ice age ancestors. Back in London, the British Museum is staging one of its most ambitious exhibitions yet, Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind. Andrew gets a behind-the-scenes preview of the extraordinary highlights and discovers that the world's first commissioned artists were producing highly sophisticated work tens of thousands of years before he previously imagined. The programme includes contributions from the British Museum's director, Neil MacGregor, and artist Antony Gormley.

50 minutes

Last on

Sun 19 May 2013 15:10GMT

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Role Contributor
Presenter Andrew Graham-Dixon
Participant Antony Gormley
Series Editor Janet Lee

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