Art Movies

Profile of the Haida artist Bill Reid

A recluse painter’s careful routine is shaken up when a mysterious young woman knocks on his door. An encounter that will confront him with his...

Rachel Whiteread’s cast of a Victorian terraced house in London’s East End was hailed as one of the greatest public sculptures by an...

The film explores the role of photography, since its rudimentary beginnings in the 1840s, in shaping the identity, aspirations, and social emergence...

A cinematographic adaptation of the dance performance by Ann Van den Broek.

Cecil Taylor was the grand master of free jazz piano. "All the Notes" captures in breezy fashion the unconventional stance of this media-shy modern...

A documentary on New York City’s biggest public art project ever, an installation called “The Gates” by Christo and Jeanne Claude.

Two kids with martial arts training and their black belt father rescue a professor from gangsters who want a stone tablet that she has discovered may...

In this documentary Kerkhof takes the viewer into a bizarre underworld, the sub-culture of blood art and body piercing performance art. Kerkhof's...

Life and art of Carlos Cruz-Diez.

The film follows Postcommodity, an interdisciplinary arts collective comprised of Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martinez and Kade L. Twist, who put...

The people of Antiquity had little problem with nudity and would not find graphic depictions of sexual acts as morally suspect or obscene. But...

Carlo McCormick was invited to curate an East Village Art show at a gallery in Richmond, Virginia. Filmmaker Tessa Hughes-Freeland took filmic...

William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas – two of the most celebrated names in international contemporary art – come face to face in a series...

A century after his birth, Sérgio Cardoso — one of the greatest stars of Brazilian theater and television — still inhabits the...

Writes Matsumoto, "I used the Erekutoro Karapurosesu (Electro Color Processor), which is mainly used in the field of medicine and engineering, to...

This public television documentary examines the passionate life and career of Elbert Hubbard, a businessman who in 1895 established a socially...