In 1968, art students Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell made a trippy photo collage for their musician friends Syd, David and Roger. The resulting album and album cover, A Saucerful of Secrets, helped launch two careers: that of Pink Floyd, one of the 70s megabands, and of Hipgnosis, which, over the course of the next 25 years, designed a stream of iconic album covers.

Everyone thinks that Bob Kane created Batman, but that’s not the whole truth. One author makes it hi...

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...

The story of the Trojan war is one of history's most enduring legends. A beautiful queen elopes with...

In 1900, the eyes of the whole world are on Paris. The World's Fair welcomed 50 million amazed visit...

When the revolution in Nicaragua won its victory nearly 40 years ago, the world began to dream. A yo...

Death and the devil, nudity and eroticism, horror in blazing colours, Gothic art cast a spell over p...

Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently decla...

The female breast has been a motif for as long as there has been art. For centuries, people have bee...

From May 10, 1940, France is living one of the worst tragedies of it history. In a few weeks, the co...

Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual cu...

Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert ...

A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director William Karel wh...

The documentary of the Nuremberg War Trials of 21 Nazi dignitaries held after World War II.

By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional acc...

A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with...

In 1609, Henry IV sent Inquisition judge Pierre de Lancre to the French Basque Country to investigat...

Eric Leiser displays his boundless creativity in this short collection; A stunning compilation of wo...

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...