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.

Buenos Aires is a complex, chaotic city. It has European style and a Latin American heart. It has os...

Leading biblical scholars and religious experts discuss the implications of the Rapture, when prophe...

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

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

In 1988, art student Damien Hirst and a group of like-minded associates mounted an exhibition in a b...
“In this legendary sculpture/performance Acconci lay beneath a ramp built in the Sonnabend Gallery. ...

Mark Rothko, a master of abstract expressionism, created 835 paintings during his five-decade career...

The unique testimony of the tragic events and crimes of russia through the eyes of Ukrainians, which...
The story of Istituto Luce and it's newsreels, full of visual records of the social and political hi...

The Umbrella Movement of 2014, also known as the Occupy Movement, paved the way for Hong Kong’s curr...

"Subversivas" is a documentary that reveals the brazilian military dictatorship from the perspective...

Documentary celebrating the LGBTQ contribution to the arts in Britain in the 50 years since decrimin...

How did the Impressionists view the world? What relationship did they have with technique, with colo...

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

L, a student in India witness to the government's violent response to university protests, writes le...

A documentary about surrealist artist Salvador Dali, narrated by Orson Welles.

‘Under the Weight of a Waking Dream’ is Zefier's debut swan song to the ending year. Comprised of po...

Hear the inside story of Huey Newton and the Black Panthers with this documentary that examines thei...