Films
New Niki de Saint Phalle documentary chronicles her personal struggles and aesthetic triumphs
Michiko Matsumoto’s film “Viva Niki”, which recently premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival, also attests to the artist’s enduring popularity in Japan
Actor Timothy Spall shows Turner-esque works in second London show
Star has played Turner and L.S. Lowry on screen
'A meteor blazing through the world': tributes pour in for the influential film producer Jess Search
The co-founder of The Doc Society and the architect behind numerous films by visual artists was diagnosed with a brain tumour in July
Sculpture stolen from the set of new Beetlejuice movie
The Vermont State Police is looking for any leads regarding the whereabouts of the 150-pound sculpture and another element of the set
Mo’ better news: Spike Lee exhibition coming to the Brooklyn Museum
The museum will showcase more than 300 objects related to the famed Brooklyn film-maker’s life and work
Vermeer film proves that people really do want to watch art in cinemas
The company Exhibition on Screen is producing films about artists—and it may have just had a breakthrough with the Dutch artist
New York art world gathers in Matthew Barney's studio for premiere of his new video installation
Secondary picks apart the spectacle of violence now overtaking America as it plays out in professional football
A new documentary tracks David Hammons, the art world's invisible man
A new documentary surveying the revered but elusive artist is playing at New York's Film Forum
Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle returns to the big screen in New York
The screening of this ambitious contribution to cinema, showing in its entirety in New York for the first time in eight years, coincides with the debut of Barney's newest project
Steve McQueen’s Grenfell Tower film—dedicated to the victims of the tragic fire in 2017—to debut in London
Work will be screened at the Serpentine Galleries before entering the Tate collection
Art heist film Inside starring Willem Dafoe is no masterpiece
Actor’s tortured solo performance as a thief fails to steal the show
A film about self-taught artist Nellie Mae Rowe shows the limitations of the artist documentary genre
"This World Is Not My Own", which recently premiered at South by Southwest, parallels Rowe’s life with that of the gallerist who championed her work
Johnny Depp is painting other celebrities—and making a killing from the sales
The movie star is fetching millions for his portraits of Bob Marley and Heath Ledger
Nam June Paik the prophet: documentary creates chronological collage of pioneering video artist's life
Director Amanda Kim’s "Moon Is the Oldest TV" supplements a timeline of the artist’s life with archival footage of his work
Michael Snow, avant-garde film-maker and sculptor, has died aged 94
The witty Canadian polymath caused a sensation with his 1967 underground film "Wavelength" and enjoyed public dispute over his city sculptures
How art inspired director Stanley Kubrick’s famous horror film The Shining
Two recently published, richly illustrated books contain a wealth of movie ephemera including photographs, concept designs, postcards and scripts
Life of elusive artist David Hammons—who once sold snowball sculptures on the streets of Manhattan—emerges in new documentary
The Melt Goes on Forever tracks the revered US artist’s career, without his direct participation, to illuminating effect
Hilma af Klint goes multimedia: NFTs launched on Pharrell Williams's Goda platform are latest digital offering of Abstract artist's work
The pioneering Swedish artist is having a moment, with a newly-released biopic, new VR and AR experiences and NFT editions
Artist Mika Rottenberg’s first feature film captures a futuristic but familiar domestic isolation
‘Remote’, co-directed by Rottenberg and Mahyad Tousi, finds Okwui Okpokwasili’s main character escaping her apartment through virtual reality
A brush with... John Akomfrah
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Jackson Pollock to Virginia Woolf
Multiple William Kentridges dramatise the philosophy of art-making in new television series
Three parts of the nine-part work premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this month
'Dalíland' offers a by-the-numbers biopic no one needed or will remember
The film, starring Ben Kingsley as the late Surrealist artist, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this month
Martine Syms's first feature film gleefully deconstructs the MFA experience
In “The African Desperate”, an art school student navigates microaggressions and social dynamics that are only slight exaggerations of art world tensions
A new documentary tracks the ups and downs of ‘making it’ in the contemporary art world
Kelcey Edwards’s documentary delves into some of the open secrets underpinning today’s art world
New documentary sheds light on artist Eric Ravilious, a romantic visionary lost in war
Ravilious was the first artist to be killed on active service during the Second World War
French pavilion: Once-banned movie about Algerian war of independence inspires cinematic installation
Artist Zineb Sedira puts Algerian film under the spotlight, as country marks 60 years as a sovereign state
Who is the discerning Midwestern collector in Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch?
And the nominees for the real-life patron who inspired “Maw Clampette” are...
Australian artist couple pack up their video cameras and head to Ukraine to film impact of war
George Gittoes and Hellen Rose will create a large “peace mural” in Kyiv and develop collaborative videos and performances with locals