In November 15, 2017, the painting Salvator Mundi, attributed to Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), was sold for an unprecedented $450 million. An examination of the dirty secrets of the art world and the surprising story of how a work of art is capable of upsetting both personal and geopolitical interests.

People looking at the Mona Lisa in the Louvre – or are they just looking at themselves?

Departing from peripheral details of some paintings of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, a female narrato...

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

At the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and Leon...

In 1940, the German artist Charlotte Salomon (1917-43) undertook an extraordinary artistic adventure...

An account of the life and work of the multidisciplinary Spanish artist Mariano Fortuny Madrazo (187...
The Mona Lisa Curse is a Grierson award-winning polemic documentary by art critic Robert Hughes that...

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own ma...

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the e...

South Korea, 1993. An agent of the National Intelligence Service is sent to Beijing to infiltrate a ...

Year 1763, the Seven Years' War is about to end. August III, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, h...

Moscow, January 1996. Boris Yeltsin gets ready to run for a second mandate of the presidency of the ...

We immerse ourselves in a quest for the origins of Art, among the very first modern humans. The preh...

After the end of the Cold War, the Baltic was viewed almost as a quiet backwater. A nice place to vi...

Black Is the Color highlights key moments in the history of Black visual art, from Edmonds Lewis’s 1...

A documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the...

M.C. Escher is among the most intriguing of artists. In 1956 he challenged the laws of perspective w...

An insider's documentary describing the CIA's use of Mena, Arkansas as a staging area for covert act...