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.

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...

An investigation of Edward Brezinski, an ambitious, charismatic Lower East Side painter hell-bent on...

A feature-length documentary celebrating the life and work of Trinity Bay artist and storyteller Cli...

A portrait of the day-to-day operations of the National Gallery of London, that reveals the role of ...

This ninety-minute film takes audiences on an epic journey across nine countries and over 1,400 year...

Using diary excerpts, photographs and memories from companions, the film paints the portrait of the ...

The inner world of the great painter Max Ernst is the subject of this film. One of the principal fou...

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

Arturo Urbiola, independent singer/songwriter, talks about the influence music has had on his life, ...

Painter Zdzisław Beksiński, his wife Zofia and their son Tomasz, a well-known radio journalist and t...
The first part of the documentary about the work of the Czech painter Mikoláš Alš called "The Song o...

Painter Françoise Gilot shared Pablo Picasso's life from 1943 to 1953. This union nourished their re...

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

British artist, academic, musician and activist Bob and Roberta Smith has been waging slightly odd p...
After World War II a group of young writers, outsiders and friends who were disillusioned by the pur...

Sean Penn is almost a living legend. His filmography paints a picture of an 'other America': the low...

Jim Carrey exhibits his talent as a painter and reflects on the value and power of art.

Cecil Taylor was the grand master of free jazz piano. "All the Notes" captures in breezy fashion the...

A strange story from Somerset, England about a filmmaking farmer and the inspiring legacy of his lon...