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In this inside story, BBC Arts Correspondent Rosie Millard takes a microscope and a microphone to the ‘Tastemakers’, the movers and shakers who have made visual art the culture of choice in Britain today. Interviewing over one hundred central players with interesting, often conflicting things to say about the state of the British arts, Rosie Millard reveals how art has been taken out of dusty private galleries and into our homes, onto our streets, and into the monumental brave new spaces epitomized by Tate Modern. Her interviewees range from Gavin Turk, Mark Wallinger and Will Alsop to Nicholas Serota, Michael Craig-Martin and Sadie Coles, and from the head of Selfridges to the inventor of Changing Rooms, revealing the impact of the visual arts revolution on a much wider stage. The Tastemakers examines the whole U.K. Art phenomenon - the celebrities, the money, the critics, the galleries and the salons, the performances and the prizes, the sensational and the beautiful; the way in which art has at last been made accessible to everyone.