Sensationalists: The Bad Girls and Boys of British Art Season 1
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.
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Sensationalists: The Bad Girls and Boys of British Art Season 1 Full Episode Guide
Episode 3 - Fame and Fortune
First Aired: October. 11,2022
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.
Episode 2 - Is It Art?
First Aired: October. 04,2022
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?
Episode 1 - Upstarts
First Aired: September. 27,2022
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.