The Haywain by John Constable is such a comfortingly familiar image of rural Britain that it is difficult to believe it was ever regarded as a revolutionary painting, but in this film, made in conjunction with a landmark exhibition at the V&A, Alastair Sooke discovers that Constable was painting in a way that was completely new and groundbreaking at the time. Through experimentation and innovation, he managed to make a sublime art from humble things and, though he struggled in his own country during his lifetime, his genius was surprisingly widely admired in France.

In 2003, eight Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment inside a busy mall and lived there for fou...

Eric Leiser displays his boundless creativity in this short collection; A stunning compilation of wo...

A video magazine put out by the Come Organization label. Noise, smut, medical procedures and an unw...

Gauguin’s vivid artworks sell for millions. He was an inspired and committed multi-media artist who ...

Alastair Sooke champions pop art as one of the most important art forms of the twentieth century, pe...

What does modern art mean for ordinary visitors to an exhibition?

Artist David Choe has led a life of high risk, from hedonistic excesses to being imprisoned at a max...
Follows the young people of Selma, Alabama's RATCo (Random Acts of Theatre Company) as they journey ...

From the remote Australian desert to the opulence of Buckingham Palace - Namatjira Project is the ic...

Klaus Kinski has perhaps the most ferocious reputation of all screen actors: his volatility was docu...

When two of artist Barbora Kysilkova’s most valuable paintings are stolen from a gallery at Frogner ...

A film about the artist Marlene Dumas: - There's no right way to portray or to understand someone. I...
A picture about the fine art of prehistoric times, the remains of which have been found in various p...
The first part of the documentary about the work of the Czech painter Mikoláš Alš called "The Song o...
The second part of the documentary about the work of the Czech painter Mikoláš Alš called "Glorious ...

An intimate portrait of Eric Carle, creator of more than 70 books for children including the best-se...
A discovery of the pictorial art that Ndebele women traditionally practice in South Africa: painting...