Alma W. Thomas lived a life of firsts: the first Fine Arts graduate of Howard University (1924), the first Black woman to mount a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1972), and the first Black woman to have her paintings exhibited in the White House (2009). Yet she did not receive national attention until she was 80.
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First broadcast in 1987 on the UK's Channel 4, Bombin' is a documentary about Afrika Bambaataa's Zul...
Filmed 2 years before his death, this documentary portrays New Brunswick folk artist Joseph Sleep (1...
A look at the work of Japanese woodblock printing artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849).
Debut of 5 young winners from the program "Project Alpha" who have the ability to sing, dance and be...
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Functions without theaters, murals without walls, clothes without fabrics and students without schoo...
Pablo Picasso is one of the greatest artists of all time - and right up until his death in 1973 he w...
Documentary about filmmakers of the New German Cinema who were members of the legendary Filmverlag f...
In 2018 Japan’s NHK television network was given unprecedented access to the Freer Gallery of Art’s ...
In his provocative 2021 book, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto, New York Times opinion co...
For his five Cremaster films Matthew Barney's created a multitude of sculptural forms and structures...
A documentary about legendary butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno.
“Pat Pasloff is a strong artist within a strong tradition…She has transcended some of the angst of A...