For full TV listings for the week, see thetimes.co.uk/tvplannerViewing guide, by Chris BennionA Fresh Guide to Florence with Fab 5 FreddyBBC Two, 9pmStriding through the thronged streets of Florence on horseback, the “Harlem Cowboy”, Fab 5 Freddy, cuts quite the dash in this entertaining alternative look at Italian Renaissance art. Unless you are a student of the late 1970s New York rap or underground art scene, you will probably know Fab 5, aka Fred Brathwaite, from the Blondie song Rapture, in which Debbie Harry rapped: “Fab 5 Freddy told me everybody’s high.” But our Fred knows his art. He and his horse are in Florence to seek out the hidden black figures of Renaissance art, with Freddy asserting that one of…

Source: The Times July 26, 2019 23:03 UTC