BBC Radio 3’s arts and ideas programme explores the ways in which writing about art can help us embrace a new way of seeing the work. Rana Mitter is joined by novelist and art essayist Siri Hustvedt, writer and broadcaster Simon Schama and Radio 3 New Generation Thinker and historian of Renaissance and early modern Europe Catherine Fletcher.

Free Thinking is broadcast on Radio 3 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 10pm. This recording will be broadcast on Thursday 30 May and available as a BBC Arts & Ideas podcast.