Film

An artist’s poetic rumination on the political promise of Opec

Sanaz Sohrabi’s feature-length documentary “An Incomplete Calendar” uses archival materials to reframe the oil cartel as an agent of anti-imperialist solidarity

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New documentary celebrates women pioneers in performance art

‘Acting Like Women’ is a deep dive into Los Angeles art and activism of the 1970s and 80s

A documentary about and largely filmed by blind girls offers a casually radical perspective

“For the Moon”, the new film by artist Éric Baudelaire, unfolds from the points of view of five students from a school for the blind in Paris

Booksreview

Book examines the connection between auteur Federico Fellini and the last castrato

“Castrato Phantoms” explores the artistic legacy of a cruel historic practice that saw young boys mutilated in order to create distinctive singing voices in later life

Filmpreview

The Japanese photographer who turned an empathetic eye on rural communities of the Pacific Northwest in the early 20th century

A new documentary about Frank Matsura captures the incredible journey of an immigrant photographer who created indelible images and served as a bridge across cultures

For two artists in Iran, collecting and archiving are forms of resistance

The documentary “I Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies”, premiering at the New York Film Festival, follows the activities of the Tabriz-based artists Nasser Bakshi and Roghayeh Najdi

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A biting satire of the art world’s transactional wokeness

Nyla Innuksuk’s “In the Heart of the South” grapples irreverently with the fraught ethics of an Inuk artist tapping into narratives of collective suffering for her work

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Documentary traces Sara Flores’s journey from the Amazon to the pinnacle of the art world

“The Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songs”, which recently premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, is a formally uncommon documentary about the Shipibo-Conibo artist currently representing Peru at the Venice Biennale

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New documentary chronicles the late Brazilian artist Amélia Toledo’s boundary-pushing work

From works made of crystals, shells and stones, to hard-edged abstraction and photography, Toledo bridged many movements and media across her six-decade career, as director Hélio Goldsztejn’s new film shows

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New documentary focuses on traditional crafts around the world and the pressures facing artisans

‘Handmade Future’ spotlights the economic and market challenges experienced by craftspeople in six countries

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In Gregg Araki’s new film, an artist and her assistant test boundary between mentorship and exploitation

The art-world satire "I Want Your Sex", starring Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman, deals in questions of power, consent and liberation

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Viking centre that loaned ship for ‘The Odyssey’ says that it has not been compensated by Universal for repairs

The Värmlands Vikingacenter in Sweden has reportedly not been able to sail its replica ship this summer due to $6000 worth of damages; Universal disputes the non-payment claims

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What happened when Lucian Freud met Kate Moss? Nothing much, according to new film

Movie about the friendship between the artist and the supermodel gets widespread drubbing from critics

Patti Smith and Soundwalk Collective’s sprawling Arles installation offers haunting world view

The collaborative show 'Correspondences' at Luma Arles in France marks the first major European presentation of the film works

Filmreview

New documentary goes behind the scenes of Rashaad Newsome’s biggest project

In 2022, the artist created a massive celebration of Black and queer culture at New York’s historic Park Avenue Armory

New documentary captures two art critics at a turning point

“House of Criticism”, which recently premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, offers an intimate view of the lives and work of Roberta Smith and Jerry Saltz

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New film about Leonora Carrington blends fact with fiction

‘Leonora in the Morning Light’ is a time-jumping look at the feminist Surrealist’s life

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New Richard Avedon documentary chronicles how he shaped the evolution of photography

Ron Howard's documentary, which recently premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, is enjoyable even as it treads well-worn ground and repeats familiar anecdotes

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In the new film Nagi Notes, art is a vessel for characters’ desires

Japanese writer-director Koji Fukada’s new film, which recently premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, is set in a remote town where artmaking is central to many residents’ lives

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New film about forgers is ‘Miami Vice’ for the art-world crowd

Although uneven at times, ‘Forge’ questions whether collectors really have more appreciation for art than artists who create forgeries

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In The Christophers, an aging artist’s unfinished masterpieces are subjects of speculation and scheming

The new Steven Soderbergh film, which stars Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel, takes up questions about how art is valued and how artists become brands

Documentary tracks Indigenous efforts to recover ancestors’ remains from museums and universities

The new film, “Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild]”, follows one campaign in Michigan and foreshadows many more

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Natalie Portman tries to sell a corpse and film-makers traffic in art-market stereotypes in The Gallerist

The new black comedy, co-starring Jenna Ortega, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Zach Galifianakis and Charli xcx, puts its blue-chip talent up to derivative humour

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New documentary provides an inside look at the Harlem Renaissance

Originally shot in 1972, ‘Once Upon a Time in Harlem’ gathers creative giants of the era for an intimate discussion at Duke Ellington’s home

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Romanian art heist film frames theft within political and migrant struggles

“Jaful Secolului” (Traffic) was inspired by a 2012 heist at Kunsthal Rotterdam and is Romania’s official selection for the 2026 Oscars

In 1960s New York, three single mothers bought a house together and turned it into a thriving live/work space

The new documentary "Artists in Residence" tells the remarkable story of the lives and work of Lois Dodd, Eleanor Magid and Louise Kruger

Film-maker Wes Anderson to recreate Joseph Cornell’s New York studio in Paris this Christmas

The Gagosian show will feature a dozen of Cornell’s most recognisable works

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French film brings the drama behind a Nazi-looted Schiele painting to life

"Auction" explores the tension between art and commerce through the true story of the discovery and sale of a 1914 depiction of wilted sunflowers

How Ai Weiwei gave a classic Italian opera a political twist

A new behind-the-scenes documentary shows how the Chinese dissident artist brought his signature stylings to Giacomo Puccini’s ‘Turandot’

Two new films take the act of looking at art as their structuring principle

To very different ends, Alice Diop’s short film “Fragments for Venus” and Bingham Bryant “Doomed and Famous” both observe attentive gallerygoers