Media & broadcast
Gael García Bernal’s new film Museo turns Mexico’s biggest art heist into a madcap caper
The Spanish-launguage movie follows two middle-class flunkies who somehow pulled off one the largest antiquities thefts in modern-day history
Nico, 1988: the twilight after the spotlight
Susanna Nicchiarelli’s drama depicts the grim final years of the singer-songwriter
Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti is a sombre picture of the artist under the sun
There are few surprises in this boilerplate biopic based on the painter’s time in Polynesia
Mapplethorpe feature film includes plenty of titillation and drama but not enough of the man himself
The film premiered at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, along with several other art-related films
How Garry Winogrand captured the everyday drama of American life
A new documentary includes many of the artist’s myriad images and his voice, but leaves gaps in his story
Will Ferrell and Joel McHale try to make sense of the art at LA’s Hammer Museum
Wonderfully tongue in cheek video, the museum's curator Aram Moshayedi takes the actors on a mock VIP tour of the show Stories of Almost Everyone
Andy Goldsworthy revisits his relationship with nature in new documentary
Leaning Into the Wind follows an earlier popular film on the artist and his works in stone, water, wood and earth
Civilisations: how the BBC's new series takes on Kenneth Clark's legacy
Documentary breaks with many of the assumptions in the art historian’s seminal series, but it also owes a great deal to it
What to see at Documentary Fortnight at MoMA
From the history of Cuba to a gay beauty pageant to the Kitsch of Prejudice, the museum’s annual film series has plenty to offer
From Koons to Kusama, five art films to catch from the Sundance Film Festival
Documentaries that examine the contemporary art market boom and the life of the world’s most popular artist had their world premieres in Park City, Utah
J. Paul Getty is a monster beyond belief in Ridley Scott’s All the Money in the World
Christopher Plummer portrays the billionaire art collector as a morally bankrupt villain who loves his art more than his family
Richard Hambleton casts a long shadow in a new documentary film
The street artist behind Shadowman outlived many of his contemporaries, but heroin and untreated skin cancer eventually took their toll
What to see at DOC NYC, New York’s documentary film festival
The art smuggler Michel van Rijn, the Outsider architect Ron Heist and the celebrity photographer Cecil Beaton are the subjects of films worth watching
Ai Weiwei’s documentary debut Human Flow is more of a journey than a j’accuse
The feature-length film is now open in New York and Los Angeles
Ruben Östlund, the director of The Square, explains why the art world deserves to be mocked
The Swedish film-maker’s brutal satire set in a contemporary art museum comes to New York next month
How Pacific Standard Time plans to reframe film and video history
A group of exhibitions and programmes to artists from across the Americas
Ai Weiwei’s refugee film Human Flow picked up by Amazon
The media production arm of the online retailer giant plans to release the documentary theatrically this autumn and stream it online
Art drama muscles in on documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival
Artists’ lives—including Tom of Finland, Laurie Simmons, Julian Schnabel and Richard Hambleton—get the cinematic treatment
Beuys the myth, more than the artist, explained in new documentary
Andres Veiel’s film, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, is the most extensive revisiting of Joseph Beuys art and life for a general public
The one that got away: film-maker tracks down the Warhol work that her family let go
After its New York Film Festival premiere, the charming documentary Brillo Box (3 ¢ off) will air on HBO in 2017
A heritage site far, far away: Star Wars film puts Irish island monastery in the spotlight
Local businesses want to extend access to island Skellig Michael to accommodate eager fans, but preservationists fear that crowds will threaten the medieval ruins and sea bird colonies
A heritage site far, far away: Star Wars film puts Irish island monastery in the spotlight
Local businesses want to extend access to island Skellig Michael to accommodate eager fans, but preservationists fear that crowds will threaten the medieval ruins and sea bird colonies
Simon Schama, David Olusoga and Mary Beard will front follow-up to influential 1960s BBC Civilisation series
Trio of presenters to tell the story of art on a global scale from Antiquity to today
Power to the people: Black Panthers’ illustrator Emory Douglas back on view
The graphic artist also served as the party’s culture minister in the 1960s and 70s
Art docs on death and loss screened at Toronto festival
Films include Laurie Anderson on her late dog (and more subtly her husband Lou Reed), a glimpse at Afghanistan’s threatened film archives, and the staff of Charlie Hebdo on the terrorist attacks that killed 11 cartoonists
Leading art publications in the US join forces
ARTnews and Art in America merge in a deal that makes newsprint magnate Peter Brant the majority shareholder
Jeff Koons on TV: 13 thoughts from the sofa
Matthew Collings reviews BBC profile of US artist