Narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi - star of the landmark television series "I, Claudius" - this documentary explores art and culture around the Bay of Naples before Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79. The bay was then the most fashionable destination for vacationing Romans. Julius Caesar, emperors, and senators were among those who owned sumptuous villas along its shores. Artists flocked to the region to create frescoes, sculpture, and luxurious objects in gold, silver, and glass for villa owners as well as residents of Pompeii and other towns in the shadow of Vesuvius. The film concludes with the story of the discovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum from the 18th century onward.
Elles Kiers and Sjef Meijman lived intensively with four Bunte Bentheimer pigs for seven months. Dur...
A short documentary covering the conclave and election of Pope Pius XII.
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
A video letter to Nancy Holt, made in homage to a shared interest in terminal lakes, framed views, m...
This film without words is composed of Pamela Bone's unique photograhic transparencies. Her talent h...
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For this work Alÿs purchased a gun in Mexico City then walked through the city streets with the weap...
What started as a simple tomb became over a 2,000 years history the universal seat of Christendom an...
With an area three times larger than Pompeii, Baia, about 15 km from Naples and within the volcanic ...
Adlon recounts the making of the sculpture, "Kugelkaryatide" the sphere that stood in the center of ...
In 2018 Japan’s NHK television network was given unprecedented access to the Freer Gallery of Art’s ...
Florida, 1994. Artist Mike Diana is convicted on an obscenity charge in the wake of an undercover po...
Immigrant residents of a “shift-bed” apartment in the heart of New York City’s Chinatown share their...
Afatasi The Artist is a San Francisco based mixed-media conceptual artist and futurist. Her artwork—...
Anton Spielmann (18) and his two younger friends Basti Muxfeldt and Jonas Hinnerkort are living in t...