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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A film that looks at the genius of JMW Turner in a new light. There is more to Turner than his subli...

Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female ...

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

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

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

Already a successful portrait photographer, Hannah sets to reinvent this art form. Abandoning hersel...

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

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

For months, the FBI have been investigating Russian interference in the American presidential electi...

Turkey's history has been shaped by two major political figures: Mustafa Kemal (1881-1934), known as...

The insatiably curious and headstrong inventor Leonardo da Vinci leaves Italy to join the French cou...

A courageous pastor uses his underground network to rescue and aid North Korean families as they ris...

Master filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) transforms a portrait of the world-renowned museum ...