With a static camera Tan films the dense night-time traffic in West Los Angeles from her temporary studio location at the Getty Center. Undercutting the cinematic quality inherent in this view of teeming traffic, the upright frame instead suggests a domestic window or an abstract painting. The space is flattened, and the viewer is unsettled. Shorn of a narrative, Vertical White is part of a trio of video works that are a series of dream-like moving pictures.

Giovanni Segantini rose from humble origins to become the most important of Italian pointillists, an...

Commissioned by the journal Présence Africaine, this short documentary examines how African art is d...

An introverted man who oscillates between reality and imagination wanders in a photography gallery w...
Draped in an electric blue fabric, the artist acts as a conduit between the tangile and the spiritua...
In this revealing documentary, Ken McMullen creates an elegant portrait of artist and filmmaker Dere...
"The prevailing stigmatization of the 'villero' universe is fed back by the images. In order to dism...

How do artists view their own work? How does actor Esko Salminen immerse himself in his roles, how d...

This documentary offers an intimate look at the life and legacy of American abstract expressionist F...
Bruce thought he had everything. A stable life, a beautiful girlfriend. But he still felt dead insid...

To mark his fiftieth birthday in 1988, London's Tate Gallery staged a major retrospective of his wor...

British surrealist Leonora Carrington was a key part of the surrealist movement during its heyday in...
A monument handcrafted by Konstantin Bessmertny is exhibited at Venice Biennale 2007.
Cheng, an ambassador of Peranakan Culture in Singapore discovers a painting that propels him to leav...

A painter, a naked woman, and a camera. In this triple constellation we explore the power of the gaz...

After an oblivious young man ineptly tells his date that she looks like a Picasso painting, an eccen...

A homogeneous structure of wind and light across tree branches in the South region of Isère

Yaazhi, a mythical creature once sworn to protect its land and people, fails and abandons the battle...

A documentarian strikes up an odd friendship with reclusive 80 year old outsider artist Al Carbee, w...

Yatora is the perfect high school student, with good grades and lots of friends. It's an effortless ...

Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhe...