Name: Sensationalists: The Bad Girls and Boys of British Art
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2022-09-27
Rating: 9
Cast: Keith Allen

Episodes

1. 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.

2. 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?

3. 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.