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.

Presents life in 18th century Spain as the painter Francisco de Goya showed it to us.

Part documentary, part drama, this film presents the life and work of Jack Kerouac, an American writ...

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

Documentary that exposes the secret world of these unknown tax havens. There is a global network of ...

An Austrian director followed five successful African music and dance artists with his camera and fo...
This MGM Passing Parade series short takes a look at changing definitions of art in the United State...

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the surreal art movement, comedian Jim Moir (a.k....

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

Pictura is a documentary film directed by seven famous directors, and narrated by several famous Hol...

Artist David Choe has led a life of high risk, from hedonistic excesses to being imprisoned at a max...

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

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

About Stefan Stricker, who calls himself Juwelia and has been running a gallery on Sanderstraße in B...
A documentary by Olivier Gonard, shot partly in Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, that examines Olivier Assayas...

One public housing flat in Moscow stood out above all others: the home of George Costakis, the forem...

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

“This is a film about the end of a friendship. It wasn’t meant to be. Fifteen years ago, they painte...

56-year-old artist Mindy Alper has suffered severe depression and anxiety for most of her life. For ...

A provocative and poetic exploration of how the British people have seen their own land through more...