The film explores the role of photography, since its rudimentary beginnings in the 1840s, in shaping the identity, aspirations, and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present. The dramatic arch is developed as a visual narrative that flows through the past 160 years to reveal black photography as an instrument for social change, an African American point-of-view on American history, and a particularized aesthetic vision.

In this film, Laerte conjugates the body in the feminine, and scrutinizes concepts and prejudices. N...
Poème Électronique is an 8-minute piece of electronic music by composer Edgard Varèse, written for t...
The video revolution of the 1970s offered unprecedented access to the moving image for artists and p...

Carlo McCormick was invited to curate an East Village Art show at a gallery in Richmond, Virginia. F...

Controversy erupts over a New-Deal-era mural of the namesake of San Francisco’s George Washington Hi...

Elliott Erwitt has spent his entire adult life taking photographs, of presidents, popes and movie st...

Janina Ramirez explores the BBC archives to create a TV history of Leonardo Da Vinci, discovering wh...

Poet, rapper, playwright and recording artist Kae Tempest is one of the most viscerally exciting art...

The multi-talented outsider artist Richard McMahan is on a quest to painstakingly re-create thousand...

Considerations on collage as a cognitive act in artists’ cinema. A pedagogical film adrift: 35mm pho...

THE STORY WON’T DIE, from Award-winning filmmaker David Henry Gerson, is an inspiring, timely look a...

A documentary that follows the life of photographer Daido Moriyama in the present, which has never b...

Portrait of the Italian sculptor Donatello (1386-1466), a precursor of the High Renaissance who cons...

Bjørn Nørgaard and a team of Czech glass artists in the demanding process of creating a grave monume...

An exploration of the work of controversial pop artist Allen Jones, whose erotic sculptures have ang...

Alma W. Thomas lived a life of firsts: the first Fine Arts graduate of Howard University (1924), the...