top of page

BROADCASTING

James is an award-winning arts broadcaster, with over fifteen years of experience making television, radio and online content. He has written and presented numerous multi-part documentaries for BBC2, BBC4, BBC Radio 3, Radio 4, and CNN.

Projects include the BAFTA-nominated British Masters (2011), RTS-nominated A History of Art in Three Colours (2012), Forest, Field & Sky: Art out of Nature (2016), The Art of Japanese Life (2017), The Age of the Image (2020), Nature and Us: a journey through art (2021), and the multi-award-winning animated series Colorscope (2017) for CNN.

He has made short films for the British Museum, Tate, Royal Academy, Imperial War Museum, Christie's, Sotheby's, the Art Fund, White Cube Gallery, 14-18NOW, the Landmark Trust, HENI Talks, Loewe, Lamborghini and many others.

He has made frequent guest appearances on most major news, current affairs and cultural review shows, and as an expert talking head on dozens of other programmes.

Watch some examples of his work below.

Broadcasting: Text

BBC Documentary: The Art of Japanese Life. Nature (2017) Ep.1

59:15

Science and History

BBC Documentary: The Art of Japanese Life. Nature (2017) Ep.1

Dr James Fox journeys through Japan's mountainous forests, marvels at its zen gardens and admires centuries-old bonsai, to explore the connections between Japanese culture and the natural environment. Travelling around Japan's stunning island geography, he examines how the country's two great religions, Shinto and Buddhism, helped shape a creative response to nature, often very different to the west. But he also considers modern Japan's changing relationship to the natural world and travels to Naoshima Art Island to see how contemporary artists are finding new ways to engage with nat #japan #nature #art #bbcdocumentary

Age of the Image - 1. A New Reality (BBC)

59:27

Culture Vulture Rises

Age of the Image - 1. A New Reality (BBC)

4-part BBC documentary series in which art historian James Fox explores how the power of images has transformed the modern world. James starts at the beginning of the 20th century, when an explosion of scientific and technological advances created radical new ways of looking at the world. From the impact of aerial photography on modern art to our ability to peer inside the body and freeze time itself, the first episode is a dizzying journey of visual invention, which makes fascinating connections between the work of artists, film-makers, photographers and scientists. Revealing Salvador Dali’s debt to Einstein, the groundbreaking trickery of Buster Keaton and shockingly modern fakery of WWI photos, James Fox offers an endlessly surprising, eye-opening look at the beginnings of our image-saturated age.

Exploring the mysteries of blue with Dr. James Fox

01:30

Exploring the mysteries of blue with Dr. James Fox

The first episode of our series Color Scope examines why blue eyes aren't really blue and other color curiosities.

Forest, Field & Sky - Art out of Nature (BBC)

58:12

Culture Vulture Rises

Forest, Field & Sky - Art out of Nature (BBC)

BBC documentary. Dr James Fox takes a journey through six different landscapes across Britain, meeting artists whose work explores our relationship to the natural world. From Andy Goldsworthy's beautiful stone sculptures to James Turrell's extraordinary sky spaces, this is a film about art made out of nature itself, featuring spectacular images of landscape and art. James travels from the furthest reaches of the Scottish coast and the farmlands of Cumbria to the woods of north Wales. In each location, he marvels at how artists' interactions with the landscape have created a very different kind of modern art, and how they make us look again at the world around us *Had to make a short edit around 9.30.

A History of Art in Three Colours - Episode 1 - Gold

59:18

Mundo da Arte Audiovisual

A History of Art in Three Colours - Episode 1 - Gold

[LEGENDADO] Documentário Dirigido por: Matt Hill 2012 60 minutos "Para as primeiras civilizações e também para as nossas, o brilho amarelo do ouro é a cor mais sedutora e inebriante de todas. Do meio da pré-história a um bunker nas profundezas do Banco da Inglaterra, o Dr. James Fox revela como os tesouros de ouro feitos através dos tempos refletem tudo o que consideramos sagrado." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4307138/

Age of the Image - 3. Seductive Dreams (BBC)

59:20

Culture Vulture Rises

Age of the Image - 3. Seductive Dreams (BBC)

BBC documentary series. James Fox tells the story of how, in the second half of the 20th century, artists, advertisers and film-makers used the power of images to sell us dreams. From the influence of Kodak on our family photos to psychologists persuading us what to buy, he explores how images seduced us with fantasies of a better life. It’s a journey that takes us from the early days of the Marlboro Man to the radical feminist art of Judy Chicago and the reaction to male-dominated visual culture. Along the way, he celebrates Fellini’s mastery of cinematic fantasy, David Hockney’s subversive visions of male desire and Madonna’s groundbreaking music videos.

Broadcasting: Video

bottom of page