
X-ray images were invented in 1895, the same year in which the Lumière brothers presented their resp...

In 2009, art detective Dr Bendor Grosvenor caused a national scandal by proving that the Scottish Na...

An account of the life and work of Swiss painter, sculptor, architect and designer H. R. Giger (1940...

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

For three and a half centuries, from the same day that Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) applied his last ...

Every fall, The Center for Cartoon Studies invites 20 aspiring cartoonists to White River Junction, ...

The Victorian era is often cited for its lack of sexuality, but as this documentary reveals, the per...

The representation of genitalia in the fine arts was censored for centuries: sexual organs were disc...

For the whole of his long life Emil Nolde, the leading German Expressionist, luxuriated in colour. B...

The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky claimed, or has been credited with, the 'creation' of abstract...

Documentary about the history of 20th century globalization through the lens of the World Trade Orga...

A portrait of the visionary Dutch artist M. C. Escher (1898-1972), according to his own words, taken...

Throughout the 19th century, imaginative and visionary artists and inventors brought about the adven...

Based on the latest technological and scientific advances, this documentary explores the palace's ar...

A documentary celebrating Lee Miller, a model-turned-photographer-turned-war reporter who defied any...

Documentary in which art critic Waldemar Januszczak argues that beauty is still to be found in moder...

Michael Palin travels to France in search of the Mediterranean view on his wall, captured by his fav...

"Every single entity contains an adumbration or landskip of the whole Universe" (Jan Baptist van Hel...