The Girl with a Pearl Earring' by Johannes Vermeer is one of the most enduring paintings in the history of art. This beautifully filmed documentary goes in pursuit of answers to the unresolved riddles surrounding this extraordinary piece.

For two hundred years, the Shakers have been America's most successful utopian society. While seekin...

British surrealist Leonora Carrington was a key part of the surrealist movement during its heyday in...

Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely ...
Lizzie Lovejoy’s mini-documentary explores the world of non-traditional performance spaces, especial...

Filmed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Tate Britain, London, the exhibition reveals Sarge...

Death and the devil, nudity and eroticism, horror in blazing colours, Gothic art cast a spell over p...

Everyone thinks that Bob Kane created Batman, but that’s not the whole truth. One author makes it hi...

In 1847, British writer Emily Brontë (1818-48), perhaps the most enigmatic of the three Brontë siste...

The female breast has been a motif for as long as there has been art. For centuries, people have bee...

Portrait of Andy Goldsworthy, an artist whose specialty is ephemeral sculptures made from elements o...

Banksy is the world's most infamous street artist, whose political art, criminal stunts and daring i...
A musical, and also a reflection on watching, on trying to escape an anthropocentric gaze and also o...

On October 1, 2013, the elusive street artist Banksy launched a month-long residency in New York, an...

Yesterday, today, tomorrow. The days pass, and so does life. Watching the waves to come and go, Laur...

The Impressionists are the most popular group in art history – millions flock every year to marvel a...

Tadao Ando, a self-taught architect, proposes an international architecture that he believes can onl...

Romantic art was a response to the social upheavals of the 19th century, as shown by works by its em...

In the year before he retires, Gregor Weber, a globally renowned Vermeer expert and flamboyant curat...