Television Programs of Interest for the Week to Come

• REGULAR OR SUPER: VIEWS ON MIES VAN DER ROHE

In 1933, under pressure from the Nazis, architect Mies Van Der Rohe shut down the influential Bauhaus School of Art and Design where he was a director and teacher and migrated to Chicago in 1938. During his life he built a total of 22 structures and this program takes a look at several of his designs.
Saturday 6 December 2008 2.30pm
SBS Rating: (G, WS, Rpt)
Duration: 65 mins

• THIS IS CIVILISATION: FEELINGS - EP 2 OF 4

Forty years on from Kenneth Clark's landmark series Civilisation, art critic Matthew Collings offers his own interpretation of Western art history for a modern audience, at a time where contemporary art and tastes reflect our own lack of belief in anything at all. In each episode, Collings chooses key moments when there was a fundamental shift in attitudes towards, and the objectives of art. From Greek and Roman classicism glorifying man, through to religious art and art as a saviour of the soul, and on to the nihilism of modern art.
Saturday 6 December 2008 3.35pm
SBS Rating: (G)
Duration: 55 mins

• FACE PAINTING WITH BILL LEAK: EP 4 OF 6

This week Bill is painting the activist for Indigenous rights, Dr Charles Perkins AO. Charlie was an exceptional Australian who broke new ground in just about everything he turned his hand too. To find out more about his portrait subject Bill talks to Charlie's good friends John Singleton, Malcolm Fraser, Chicka Dixon, Gordon Briscoe and photographer Robert McFarlane.
Monday 8 December 2008 8.00pm
ABC1 Rating: (PG)
Duration: 30 mins

• THE CLOSET TALES OF AUSTRALIAN FASHION: LOVER - EP 3 OF 4

Nic Briand and Susien Chong of the label Lover make every effort to exist on the fashion fringe. This episode takes a look at their reluctant rise to fashion fame; from humble beginnings at Bondi Markets to the fashion pages of US Vogue, it explores the dynamic relationship between this creative duo.
Tuesday 9 December 2008 3.30pm
SBS Rating: (PG, WS, Rpt)
Duration: 30 mins

• THE MUSEUM: THE BM GOES EAST - EP 3 OF 10

The British Museum wants to bring some of China's Terracotta Army to London - but will they get the warriors they want, and how much will it all cost? They're also facing the challenge of shifting 30 tonnes of enormous, fragile and irreplaceable works of art from London to Shanghai and with remarkable access to a truly extraordinary set of events. Back in the BM, a delicate operation is underway. This episode of The Museum follows the BM's 'heavy mob' as they oversee the removal of some of the most precious objects in the collection, while trying to ensure that the ancient alabaster Assyrian reliefs reach the other side of the world intact.
Tuesday 9 December 2008 8.00pm
ABC1 Rating: (G)
Duration: 35 mins

• ART MUSEUMS OF THE WORLD: COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART GALLERY - SPIRIT OF IMPRESSIONISM ALIVE IN LONDON, EP 8 OF 13

Built on the private collection of Samuel Courtauld, an English industrialist who made his money in the textile industry, the Institute houses works by Manet, Cezanne, Renoir, Gauguin and van Gogh.
Wednesday 10 December 2008 6.05pm
ABC1 Rating: (G, HD, Rpt)
Duration: 25 mins

• THE MAKING OF MY FAVOURITE AUSTRALIAN

ABC TV in a collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra are taking a bold new approach to the "My Favourite" concept by commissioning 30 video portraits from video artists and filmmakers across Australia for My Favourite Australian. Early in 2008, ABC TV and the National Portrait Gallery asked the public to vote for My Favourite Australian. There were two categories - Popular, where you could vote for people in the public eye, and Unsung Hero, where you could nominate your personal hero from any walk of life. The Top 10 Popular heroes and the selected 20 Unsung Heroes will be revealed and celebrated in the My Favourite Australian exhibition of 30 video portraits across several platforms.
Wednesday 10 December 2008 10.05pm
ABC1
Duration: 30 mins

• AS IT HAPPENED: HITLER'S MUSEUM - EP 1 OF 2

Hitler's Museum tells how Hitler planned to celebrate his victory in Europe by transforming his boyhood town of Linz, into the cultural centrepiece of his new German empire - the 'Fuehrer City'. Throughout World War Two, Nazi looting squads plundered many of the great artworks of Europe in preparation for the construction of a 'Fuehrer Museum' at war's end in Linz, on the Danube River in Austria.
Friday 12 December 2008 8.30pm
SBS Rating: (PG, WS)
Duration: 60 mins