Saturday 21 February – Saturday 18 April 2009

As the Tate Triennial looks into art's future, we look back forty years to when Civilisation, Lord Clark's epic survey of one thousand five hundred years of western culture, was first broadcast. Led by lecturer and author Matthew Kieran, this Tate Britain series debates creativity then and now and finds common themes with philosophers and art-world professionals.

• Civilisation: The Nature of Creativity   Saturday 21 February 2009
• Civilisation: The Art Object   Saturday 21 March 2009
• Civilisation: The Value of Art   Saturday 18 April 2009