Modern Art Movies

A rural American town suffering economically from factory closures finds an unconventional route to recovery with the help of MASS MoCA.

This 56-minute documentary on America's most controversial and unique composer manages to cover a great many aspects of Cage's work and thought. His...

ANA C. uses videoart and videoperformance to express the relationship between the marginalized poet Ana Cristina Cesar with art itself.

M.C. Escher is among the most intriguing of artists. In 1956 he challenged the laws of perspective with his graphic Print Gallery and his uncompleted...

Martin Creed has said that part of living is coming to terms with horrible feelings. 'The problem with horrible feelings is you can't paint them. But...

The history of how the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art of Cuenca was created. In the mid-1950s, the Spanish collector and painter Fernando...

Narrated by David McCullough, this program examines the infamous Entartete Kunst (degenerate art) exhibition mounted by the Nazis in Munich in 1937...

Sloppy man Geir starts working at an art museum where he meets stuck up wannabe artist Hörður. Things get weird when they bring a sofa to...

A collection of BBC archive material about painter Francis Bacon, including a previously unseen interview recorded in 1965.

Up until the end of her life, Beatrice Wood continued to influence younger artists with her definitive, free-wheeling ways. She was central to the...

No understanding of the modern movement in architecture is possible without knowledge of its master builder, Mies van der Rohe. Together with...

In Europe, road junctions have become public art galleries. A road trip across France, Switzerland, the Canary Islands, Greece and Germany exploring...

A manufactured memory.

A movie about an artist that had a vision about art and he had expressed that in his paintings, designs, fashion designs and photography and make...

Sometimes reduced to the image of a cursed artist, Amedeo Modigliani, an admirer of the masters of the Italian Renaissance, has traced an...

What is the true meaning of the art?