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.
Among the millions of victims of the Nazi madness during the Second World War, Pierre Seel was charg...
The first major profile of the American Pop Art cult leader after his death in 1987 covers the whole...
A look at the feud between graffiti artists King Robbo and Banksy.
With a strong emphasis on founder Larry Harvey and temple artist David Best, this video expresses th...
BURNING MAN: BEYOND BLACK ROCK goes behind the scenes of a social revolution to explore the philosop...
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...
Artist David Choe has led a life of high risk, from hedonistic excesses to being imprisoned at a max...
The decision to move to Holland doesn't sound like a wise idea. Why move to a country that could be ...
Short documentary commissioned by the magazine Présence Africaine. From the question "Why is the Afr...
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 ...
Andrew Marr interviews David Hockney about his exhibition A Bigger Picture at the Royal Academy, mad...
Klaus Kinski has perhaps the most ferocious reputation of all screen actors: his volatility was docu...
Challenging all notions of genre, Semi Colin is a living, breathing art installation. Part performan...
Filmed over three years, the documentary is an unprecedented record of a major artist at work. It ca...
A documentary to 'rediscover' the so called Sistine Chapel of Rock Art and to tell the story of the ...
From award-winning director Phil Grabsky comes this fresh new look at arguably the world’s favourite...