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.
Down the gangway, photographers leave the deck of a riverboat in large numbers.
London, England, 2008. Some of the most distinguished experts on the work of Italian artist Leonardo...
Emil Nolde was a Nazi – and so what, asks contemporary German artist Daniel Richter. “It’s a moralis...
Photographer Helmut Newton talks about his work.
In 2018 Japan’s NHK television network was given unprecedented access to the Freer Gallery of Art’s ...
The Art of Antony Gormley features the documentary Antony Gormley and the 4th Plinth, produced for S...
A montage, using documentary material filmed during the war, shows the beginnings of an air attack a...
The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky claimed, or has been credited with, the 'creation' of abstract...
Hours and historical meetings, Pierre Assouline has composed an anthology of the best extracts prese...
Francis Bacon: Fragments of a Portrait explores the recurring themes in Bacon’s work, his influences...
First broadcast in 1987 on the UK's Channel 4, Bombin' is a documentary about Afrika Bambaataa's Zul...
Citizen Lane is an innovative mix of documentary and drama that delivers a vivid and compelling port...
Mark Rothko, a master of abstract expressionism, created 835 paintings during his five-decade career...
Don Letts's hilarious and colourful profile of the godfather of funk, whose 50-year career has defin...
Documentary about Gil Scott-Heron.
Documentary following the career of Brooklyn-born photographer Jamel Shabazz, who captured hip-hop i...
Curator Robert Storr takes us through the 2002 MoMA Gerhard Richter retrospective.
A painter, a naked woman, and a camera. In this triple constellation we explore the power of the gaz...
Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) is both a cultural icon and a lasting source of art...