Resources Films & Audio State Of The Art: Ideas And Images in the 1980s 1985 View resource (external link) launch State of the Art was a remarkable, authoritative and challenging series of documentaries about the visual arts in the 1980s, made by Sandy Nairne for Channel 4 and Illuminations. The film about Hodgkin includes a conversation and a sequence filmed in his exhibition of paintings at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1985. Share ⊶ Twitter Facebook