Big Sky, Big Dreams, Big Art: Made in the USA
BBC FOUR, 9.00PM
Presenter Waldemar Januszczak swaps the Wild West featured in last week’s episode for the “pulsing, futuristic excitement of the American city”, as his fascinating series on art continues. He begins amid the skyscrapers of New York, explaining how the vaulting architecture of the Chrysler Building exemplified the hope and ambition of the burgeoning metropolis. We then move on to the Great Depression, presaged by artists such as Thomas Hart Benton in his restless murals of urban life.