Video, film & new media
Hello Kitty, meet Louis Wain: a new film portrays the eccentric life of a cat painter
Benedict Cumberbatch portrays the ill-fated Victorian illustrator who can be thanked—or blamed—for the rise of the feline in popular culture
Instagram’s new sensitive content controls: what they could mean for the art world
The photo-sharing app has introduced new opt-out filters that censor the images they see—but most people don't even know they exist
From Atari to the No Fly List, artist Yucef Merhi uncovers the pervasive power of technology
The Venezuela-born artist’s pioneering work exploring information systems is on view in two shows in Miami
The Lost Leonardo—a thriller-like film on the world’s most expensive painting—opens in the UK on 10 September
The documentary features experts including editor-in-chief of The Art Newspaper, Alison Cole, and editor-at-large Georgina Adam
Troubled skies behind the happy little clouds: an interview with Joshua Rofé, director of Netflix's new Bob Ross documentary
The film-maker behind Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed discusses what makes the artist an enduring icon who saw the beauty in life despite personal tragedy
Institutionalising 9/11: The Outsider documents Ground Zero museum’s contentious formation in Facebook premiere
Ahead of the 20th anniversary of the attacks, a new film follows the challenges behind the making of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York
Lynn Hershman Leeson, digital art pioneer, traces the tangled web of virtual life
A sprawling exhibition at the New Museum, featuring early online works and recent projects exploring DNA, proves how farsighted her work has been
Filmmaker Oliver Ressler accuses YouTube of censorship after account suspended 'without warning'
Austrian artist who creates political and environmental documentaries believes his videos have been deleted because of their "anti-capitalist content"
Watch retired BMW robots draw athletes’ movements at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics
The installation by Jason Bruges Studio creates unique performances and images based on different sports, from swimming to shooting, sprinting to skateboarding
Concert from Bangladesh: virtual reality music event revives 1971 Beatles charity concert—but without the white saviour complex
British-South Asian artist Shezad Dawood and curator Diana Campbell have collaborated with a group of Bangladeshi creatives to create a virtual stage celebrating the country as it turns 50
No luck getting tickets for immersive Van Gogh show? San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum opens with more cutting-edge projections by teamLab
The pandemic-delayed expansion features an interactive exhibition by the Japanese contemporary art collective that was designed to disorient
Camp resistance: Tina Takemoto’s video Looking for Jiro explores the queer experience during Japanese internment
Trevor Paglen warns about the dangers of Artificial Intelligence in new documentary Unseen Skies
“Ways of seeing are never neutral, images have always required a human to interpret them,” the artist says
'We can use NFTs to support good causes': Pussy Riot mints and sells first NFT to raise money for women's shelters
The video, titled Terrestrial Paradise, was bought for around £128,000 by the Iranian-born art collector and political activist Amir Soleymani
Photographs taken by Nazi camp prisoners remind us of the horrors of the Holocaust in new documentary at Berlin Film Festival
The virtual programme also included features on Tsarist Russian fashion and robot love in the Pergamon Museum
Garrett Bradley is now represented by Lisson Gallery
The Oscar-shortlisted filmmaker who has work currently at MoMA and the New Museum, said she was drawn to the gallery’s artist roster and international reach
How To With John Wilson raises the video tutorial to poetic heights
The HBO “docu-comedy” series brings an absurdist view to everyday city life
Magnum photographer Khalik Allah releases epic film portrayal of social and racial injustice on the streets of Harlem
Created in just 8 months, IWOW: I Walk On Water is a sprawling three-hour long paean to some of New York’s most marginalised people
K-punk parties on: new online film commission at ICA in London remembers late cultural theorist Mark Fisher
Five new films delve into Fisher's last lecture series, where he began tracing a beguiling escape route out of capitalism
Fill your boots: Dr. Martens gives £60,000 for new video commissions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London
Grants will be given to artists to create moving image works to premiere at the ICA's Image Behaviour 2021 forum
Fast forward: revamped Australian Centre for the Moving Image promises a high-tech experience
The Melbourne museum of screen culture reopens with a contactless device that allows visitors to curate virtual collections
Nuns and refugees feature in this year’s art films at a pared-down Sundance Festival
From Rebel Hearts, a documentary on Los Angeles artist and activist Sister Mary Corita, to Flee, and animated tale of a young gay man’s flight from Afghanistan
In pictures: Donald Trump’s presidency as the art world saw it
As Trump leaves office, we look back at the legacy of his four years leading the US and how artists captured it
‘The house needs a cleaning’: Women artists gather to show the path forward on inauguration day
Inspired by the historic election of Kamala Harris as America’s first woman vice president, artists collaborate on a new online work presented by Creative Time
New reality TV show searches for UK's next art superstar
Next Big Thing aims to give a new generation of artists a public platform
Exclusive video: Marina Abramovic advises public to complain to a tree to help heal from 2020
Complain to a Tree is the latest addition to the “Abramovic Method”, a series of exercises developed by the artist for practicing being present, which she will reveal on a new Sky Arts programme
Missing out on Artemisia Gentileschi because of lockdown? Here's a video tour of the National Gallery exhibition
As coronavirus forces English museums to close, take a virtual guided trip around the much-anticipated show of the female Old Master with this video and podcast
The Art Newspaper at 30: how has art criticism changed in the digital age?
Through blogs, websites and social media, there is more writing than ever on the arts. But whether it adds meaningful insight, or just noise, is a matter of debate
Exclusive: watch Yinka Shonibare's powerful film remix of Addio del Passato here
Part of Goodman Gallery's online film programme and exhibition dedicated to Black artists, the video is available on The Art Newspaper website until Sunday
Rising white supremacy tackled in online film festival with works by John Akomfrah and Yinka Shonibare
Goodman Gallery launches video programme today—and you can exclusively watch Yinka Shonibare's Addio Del Passato on The Art Newspaper website this Friday