This program investigates the ways various art forms are used to sway minds and to argue political causes. Examples include Napoleon and Hitler; artist such as Daumier, Hogarth and Shann; writers Dickens, Swift and Orwell; and pop artists who mock popular ideals.
In 2018 Japan’s NHK television network was given unprecedented access to the Freer Gallery of Art’s ...
Heather Booth is the most influential person you have heard of. The newest film by critically acclai...
A video letter to Nancy Holt, made in homage to a shared interest in terminal lakes, framed views, m...
Up until the end of her life, Beatrice Wood continued to influence younger artists with her definiti...
Immigrant residents of a “shift-bed” apartment in the heart of New York City’s Chinatown share their...
Logistics or Logistics Art Project is an experimental art film. At 51,420 minutes (857 hours or 35 d...
The Renaissance master Botticelli spent over a decade painting and drawing hell as the poet Dante de...
In “Samples II”, Alÿs walks around London with a drum stick in his hand, playing the sounds of metal...
An indie documentary exploring the art form of hand-drawn animation through a contemporary lens in t...
Robert Mitchum narrates an anti drug propaganda film.
The chronic shortage of housing in Central Havana has pushed the city upwards, where life spills out...
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...
Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw...
Constructing freestone buildings on the cheap, Pouillon made a name for himself at the end of the 19...
A fascinating look at the intersection of art, commerce, and digital ownership through the rise and ...
Concerning Violence is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most da...
Documentary examining the steel industry in Youngstown, Ohio during World War II. Focuses on steel p...
How far would you go to pursue your passion? At 87 years old, Hank Virgona commutes to his Union Squ...