Art Movies

A movie about James Tissot (1836-1902), a French painter and portraitist

A short story of the most important emotions of life, from birth to death, love and sexuality through pain and fear. It is a tribute to art and his...

A documentary that explores what it means to be an artist and why it's important to pursue your passion- even in the face of failure.

The world's greatest art thief collects almost two-billion dollars in masters only to have his mother burn them all in the family backyard.

In 1988, art student Damien Hirst and a group of like-minded associates mounted an exhibition in a building in the East End of London. Entitled...

Adam - a dreamy teenager - devotes his existence to Sofia, a mature enigmatic painter. Through his eyes, their relationship nears utopia. But the day...

Celebrating Billy Connolly's 75th birthday and 50 years in the business, three Scottish artists - John Byrne, Jack Vettriano and Rachel MacLean -...

The titular troublemakers are the New York–based Land (aka Earth) artists of the 1960s and 70s, who walked away from the reproducible and the...

Beth Moore-Love is perhaps the greatest living artist working in America today. Her works can be found in private collections throughout the United...

An intimate portrait of Eric Carle, creator of more than 70 books for children including the best-selling "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". At 82, Eric...

In April 1939, "Grapes of Wrath" entered the pantheon of literature with a bang. Americans are at loggerheads over the odyssey of the Joad family,...

To mark his fiftieth birthday in 1988, London's Tate Gallery staged a major retrospective of his work. Melvyn Bragg joined David Hockney for an...

An intimately raw and magical journey through the life, mind, and heart of iconic artist Frida Kahlo. Told through her own words for the very first...

In "Hands Scraping" we see two male pairs of hands, those of Serra and Phil Glass, sweeping up steel filings strewn on the wooden floor with their...

A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.

1918. As the roar of the First World War cannons is dying out, in Vienna, the heart of Central Europe, a golden age comes to an end. The...

The concrete costs for culture and creativity is here illustrated in punchy images.

A doctor allergic to the human touch finds his salvation in writings tattooed on the body of a dead poet.