The film tells the story of James Morrison’s early years, painting the tenements of Glasgow, through to his dramatic encounter with a polar bear while painting melting icebergs in North West Greenland. As the artist struggles with imposing blindness, the film follows James, as he prepares for what turned out to be his last ever public exhibition at the Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh in January 2020.
Francis Bacon: Fragments of a Portrait explores the recurring themes in Bacon’s work, his influences...
Emil Nolde was a Nazi – and so what, asks contemporary German artist Daniel Richter. “It’s a moralis...
The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky claimed, or has been credited with, the 'creation' of abstract...
The Art of Antony Gormley features the documentary Antony Gormley and the 4th Plinth, produced for S...
Documentary about filmmakers of the New German Cinema who were members of the legendary Filmverlag f...
Never before has the extraordinary life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo been framed in relation to the...
The evolution of Picasso's painting up to his “pink phase.”
London, England, 2008. Some of the most distinguished experts on the work of Italian artist Leonardo...
George Segal constructs a type of human form and vulnerability that feels rare in the world of sculp...
Pierre-Auguste Renoir is known and loved for his impressionist paintings of Paris. These paintings c...
One of Britain’s greatest landscape artists, Eric Ravilious, is killed in a plane crash while on com...
Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) is both a cultural icon and a lasting source of art...
Tim Jenison, a Texas based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How...
Described in Art Review as the world’s most influential and expensive living artist, the German pain...
Venturing from Venice Beach to Watts, Varda looks at the murals of LA as backdrop to and mirror of t...
Thomas Schütte's work is always about people. His works have gravity and lightness, but they also sh...
Charlotte Gainsbourg looks at her mother Jane Birkin in a way she never did, overcoming a sense of r...
In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his...