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.

Hundreds of thousands − perhaps even millions − of protestors have taken to the streets of Hong Kong...

The story of an exceptional painter talent, the Belgian-Hungarian Kim Corbisier who left a brilliant...

A study of artist Andy Goldsworthy’s work in Scotland and Japan.

Jake Chapman explores why Goya's The Disasters of War etchings are so central to his own art and exp...

Shows how to use and care for crayons and some of the crayon techniques. Explains creative drawing, ...

Hundreds of thousands of Indian men and women – indigenous inhabitants and landless farmers – demand...

Sien (74) leaves for her hideout on the captivating island of Vlieland. Here she recollects her memo...

Activist-pranksters Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonnano pull the rug out from under mega-corporations, g...

By drawing a parallel between the Indian Durga Puja festival and other forms of celebrating the divi...

The First Year tells the inside story of Jamie Driscoll’s first 12 months as the new North of Tyne M...

He is a major figure in the pop art movement; one of the most popular and influential artists of his...

There were two wars in Iraq--a military assault and a media war. The former was well-covered; the la...

Follows Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar as he finds his artistic voice and develops the socially critica...

The story of the first house/museum/school in the surburbs of Salvador: Acervo da Laje. Through inte...

A portrait of artist, actress, poet and occultist Marjorie Cameron, it shows images of her paintings...

A documentary on the rise and fall of Project Cybersyn, an attempt at a computer-managed centralized...

Art Critic Waldemar Januzczak presents this documentary which details french artist Toulouse-Lautrec...

"Puss Riot and other sins" - The Putin system is taking on more and more features of the Soviet syst...