Alastair Sooke champions pop art as one of the most important art forms of the twentieth century, peeling back pop's frothy, ironic surface to reveal an art style full of subversive wit and radical ideas. In charting its story, Alastair brings a fresh eye to the work of pop art superstars Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein and tracks down pop's pioneers, from American artists like James Rosenquist, Claes Oldenburg and Ed Ruscha to British godfathers Peter Blake and Allen Jones. Alastair also explores how pop's fascination with celebrity, advertising and the mass media was part of a global art movement, and he travels to China to discover how a new generation of artists are reinventing pop art's satirical, political edge for the 21st century.

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

With loans from across the world, this major retrospective will bring together Vermeer’s most famous...

In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes ...

Hop on a Harley for this tour of the nation's highways and byways with other motorcycle enthusiasts ...

An intimate documentary exploration of heritage and history against the backdrop of a brewing Afro-c...

Celebrating Billy Connolly's 75th birthday and 50 years in the business, three Scottish artists - Jo...

'Pedro', Liora Spilk's debut feature, paints a humorous and emotional portrait of Pedro Friedeberg, ...

This film speaks of archaic peoples, their customs and mores, in an attempt to make the last snapsho...
A documentary by Olivier Gonard, shot partly in Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, that examines Olivier Assayas...
This MGM Passing Parade series short takes a look at changing definitions of art in the United State...

A documentary about the life and works of the artist M. C. Escher. Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-197...

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the surreal art movement, comedian Jim Moir (a.k....

Tenor saxophone master Sonny Rollins has long been hailed as one of the most important artists in ja...

A film documenting the soulful art, environments, and voices of self-taught artists on the back road...