ReviewFilms
Helmut Newton, the man whom (some) women loved
A documentary of the photographer, known for his brazen photographs of defiant nude women, is now streaming online
ReviewBook Club
Sex, Soho, cocksure snappers and cigarette money: the making of London’s 1960s art world
A new book by Lisa Tickner, called London's New Scene, focuses on a cast of glamorous characters and gritty drama, with much that resonates today
NewsArthur Jafa
Arthur Jafa’s searing chronicle of Black America to be screened by museums worldwide for 48 hours
Fourteen institutions including Tate will livestream Love is the Message, The Message is Death
NewsFilms
Shirin Neshat's award-winning films go online for 24 hours in mini film festival
Goodman Gallery is launching the video programme on 20 June—but you can watch Roja exclusively on The Art Newspaper website from tomorrow
NewsFilms
Ai Weiwei will address the Rohingya refugee crisis in a forthcoming documentary
The Chinese dissident artist and director of Human Flow is also currently filming a new documentary about the coronavirus pandemic
InterviewFilms
How a Canadian documentary director got the major players in the Knoedler fakes scandal to speak on camera
Barry Avrich talks to us about his new film Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art, due to be released in theatres this autumn
FeatureHenri Matisse
Sophie Matisse retraces her great-grandfather's footsteps for emotional BBC film
In an interview for The Week in Art Podcast, Sophie reveals how the support of Henri Matisse's wife Amélie became a central theme of Becoming Matisse
ReviewMedia & broadcast
An abstract parallel universe: documentary on Hilma af Klint released online
Long overlooked and snubbed because of her spiritualism, the Swedish artist is finally getting the recognition—and style credit—she deserves
NewsArt market
Forgery, drugs and sex abuse in the Canadian art world exposed in new documentary
There Are No Fakes connects a forged Norval Morrisseau painting to a crime ring behind "the greatest art scam in Canadian history"
ReviewMedia & broadcast
Art films at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival
From a bio-pic on Italian naïve artist Antonio Ligabue to a documentary on the Berlin Wall fragments in the US
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Hollywood dreams really do come true: the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures beckons
The museum will open on 14 December in Los Angeles with 50,000 sq. ft of exhibition space and two theaters
NewsFilms
An art-fuelled, 18th-century lesbian love affair: French film Portrait of a Lady on Fire released in UK
Emblematic tale of a doomed relationship between a woman and her portraitist, lauded by international critics, goes on show this week
NewsMuseum of Modern Art New York
'Universally admired' arts patron Agnes Gund stars in new documentary at MoMA
The film, directed by her daughter Catherine, shows the roots of the collector's social activism
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Kirk Douglas played Van Gogh in 1950s film Lust for Life: a look at the biopic and the myths it made
The Hollywood star, who died last week aged 103, became famous for his portrayal of the "tortured artist"
NewsVideo, film & new media
Grenfell Tower tragedy to be memorialised in film by Steve McQueen
London-based artist plans to show the video later this year at a London space free to the public
ReviewFilms
Review | Art and authenticity in Hong Kong
Leave the Bus Through the Broken Window follows filmmaker Andrew Hevia as he fumbles his way through the often exclusionary art world
ReviewArt Basel in Miami Beach 2019
New documentary offers unvarnished view of Clyfford Still
Lifeline/Clyfford Still sheds light on the Abstract Expressionist who despised critics, condemned the work of his contemporaries, and was admired by many
ReviewFilms
In Redoubt, Matthew Barney retells an ancient myth in a survivalist American landscape
The artist’s new film is visually spectacular but with a current of politics underneath
NewsMoMA expansion 2019
'Art history isn’t the neat package you think it is': first look at MoMA's $450m expansion
How the New York museum has remixed its unrivalled collection ahead of its 21 October re-opening
ReviewMedia & broadcast
Art films worth seeing from the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival
Claes Bang takes the lead in two art dramas, while Cunningham dances through the decades
BlogIn the frame
Pictures of matchstick men: celebrating L.S. Lowry in a new film—and with a garden statue?
ReviewMedia & broadcast
Into the cluttered maze of a packrat photographer
“Jay Myself” captures an artist and collector in his overflowing six-storey home
InterviewJewellery
Wakanda comes to Washington
Douriean Fletcher, who made the jewellery for Black Panther, speaks at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
NewsConservation & Preservation
Conservators restore Africa’s first animated film in colour
Nigerien pioneer Moustapha Alassane’s stop-motion work Samba the Great is being screened in Bologna
NewsFilms
Victorians in pictures: British Film Institute digitises archive of over 500 early silent films
Conservation experts carefully cleaned the fragile and flammable nitrate film so each frame could be individually scanned
NewsObituaries
Experimental film-maker Barbara Hammer dies, aged 79
The pioneer of lesbian film became an advocate for medical aid in dying
News
Museo del Barrio cancels exhibition over an artist’s remarks about rape
Show was to focus on career of the film-maker Alejandro Jodorowsky
ArchiveIndonesia
Oei Hong Djien, the controversial collector aiming to build a history of Indonesia’s Modern art
New film shows a scene dogged by lack of institutional support and alleged fakes
ArchiveInterviews
Interview: Why Mike Leigh turned to art
The British director on his acclaimed big-screen portrait of Turner—and the artist’s “box of tricks”
ArchiveFilms
Let the video roller coaster ride begin : Interview with Ryan Trecartin
Trecartin’s films, created with Lizzie Fitch, trace the impact of technology on modern life
ArchiveNews
All of Warhol’s films and videos to be digitised
The project will make hundreds of the artists films more accessible
ArchiveFilms
Uli Sigg film on his rational and comprehensive attitude to collecting Chinese contemporary art
Sigg reveals that he didn’t necessarily like some of the contemporary art he bought
ArchiveFilms
The art of warfare: new documentary on practical applications of art installation during WWII
Rick Beyer’s “The Ghost Army” is the story of the artists who worked to throw the German army off the scent of the real location of Allied troops
ArchiveNews
MoMA shows Nixon’s home movies
“It’s a granular look at different types of presidential films of the past century,” says one of the festival’s founders
ArchiveArtist interview
Champion of the ‘free radicals’: Interview with Pip Chodorov
After introducing film to Fiac and battling to get fair prices for film-makers’ works, Pip Chodorov made his own history of experimental cinema—and now he is celebrating the work of a pioneering artist in a forthcoming Serpentine Gallery show.
ArchiveExhibitions
Hollywood costumes come to V&A
“Wizard of Oz” and “Gone with the Wind” costumes among those on show
ArchiveArtist interview
'We are entering into the uncanny valley': Interview with Philippe Parreno
The artist’s solo show at the Beyeler this month includes new films starring a black garden and a robotic Marilyn Monroe
ArchiveFilms
New Abramovic film explores public and private endurance tests
Akers's film recounts the artist’s decades of arduous performances—and reveals a charming woman beneath the steely surface
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Pilippe Parreno: Warning, this art will self-destruct
Visitors to Parreno’s Beyeler show get a copy of his “black garden” film. The DVD will expire but the plants live on
ArchiveFilms
"Art in the Twenty-first Century" brings big personalities to the small screen
This US television series offers insights into the history and practice of artists from Marina Abramovic to Ai Weiwei
ArchiveKazimir Malevich
Art on the big screen: The art and lives of prominent 20th century artists
Documentaries on Julio González and Kazimir Malevich are particularly striking, while the Claes Oldenburg and Jasper Johns films are less so
ArchiveAndy Warhol
Review: Re-distributed films starring Armando Reverón and David Hockney and Londoners gather on Front Row to recall Andy Warhol encounters
Poignant footage of Reverón's twilight years, Hockney playing the documentarian and Jeremy Deller in conversation with Anthony d'Offay on Warhol's transformative power
ArchiveFeatures
Marina Abramovic, Doug Aitken and Matthew Barney are leading the way in a new kind of theatrical art
"In long, durational performance, you change the performer and the public" says Abramovic
ArchiveFilms
New York’s digital shorts: 'Made Here' explores artists’ relationships with the city
The web-based videos looks into the lives of performers and artists
ArchiveIran
Robert Adanto's documentary "Pearls on the Ocean Floor" throws spotlight on Iran's revolutionary female artists
The women who go against the grain, featured at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
ArchiveFilms
Art on the big screen: Documenting feminism and how women changed the (art) world
Lynn Hershman Leeson’s film is an invaluable historical record of the feminist art movement in the US
ArchivePiranesi
Inside Piranesi’s prisons on show at the Venice Architecture Biennale
An immersive, digital film at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini reimagines the artist’s dark fantasies as if in three dimensions
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Bruce Weber: “We had to work fast—and run”
Photographer Bruce Weber has spent seven years recording the plight of Miami’s Haitian community
ArchiveArtist interview
Playing the mating game: Interview with Isabella Rossellini
Isabella Rossellini’s acclaimed short films about animal sexual behaviour are being shown at the Wolfsonian
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Michael Nyman: “There’s no scripts, no rehearsals, no actors…”
The composer explains the thinking behind his latest film, and reminisces about the parties held by a Frieze founder’s dad
ArchiveJean-Michel Basquiat
A new film on Jean-Michel Basquiat ticks all the boxes
Archive interviews? Check. Cool soundtrack? Famous faces? Boost to the market? Check, check and check
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Shirin Neshat: “For Iranian artists, being silent is like taking the side of the demon”
As her debut movie, “Women Without Men”, screens in Basel, the artist explains that cinema is closer to her people
ArchiveConservation & Preservation
MoMA celebrates film preservation
Artists such as Kara Walker to introduce newly restored works by Kubrick and others
ArchiveFilms
Art on the big screen: When Dalí and Lorca were lovers—perhaps
"Little Ashes" tells one side of a very contentious story
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Jane and Louise Wilson: Stanley Kubrick’s photographs brought to life
The sisters had access to the late film-maker’s huge archive and focused on a film about the Holocaust which never got made
ArchiveFilms
Art in the media: Light and dark after the war at the Ferus Gallery and in the art of Georg Baselitz
Ostensibly disparate films illuminate art after the end of World War II
ArchiveSalvador Dalí
News from New York: An evening with the British film-maker who gave as good as he got, and dinner with Prince Philip and his famous faux pas
Meanwhile, the Hamptons hot up
ArchiveFilms
Art on the big screen: The art of war and sex
A look at 'Guernica: Portrait of War' and 'Love You More'
ArchiveWomen Artists
New York’s women on film
Chiara Clemente's "Our City Dreams" at Art Basel
ArchiveLawrence Wiener
Lawrence Weiner's latest film "Water in Milk Exists" premieres in Basel
The narrative, performed by an amateur cast, will be played out at underground movie theatre Kino Mascotte due to its adult themes
ArchiveArtist interview
Artist Interview: David Lynch’s diamond dome
The cult film-maker shows off his skills as an artist with a new, atmospheric work in Miami in the Cartier pavilion
ArchiveFilms
London. Cinema India: the Art of Bollywood
Bollywood comes to London
ArchiveFeatures
The films of Warhol’s lost lover rediscovered: A documentary on Danny Williams
Esther Robinson’s engrossing movie includes footage of several of Williams’ films
ArchiveArtist interview
Art on the air: TV interviews with the tycoon, the craftsman, and the agitator
Damien Hirst on world domination, Grayson Perry on turning to tapestry and Anselm Kiefer on why Americans are hysterical
ArchiveFilms
Director Mel Stuart begins filming his new documentary in Miami fairs
The project may span several episodes, following collectors of all types
ArchiveFilms
ABMB hosts film on nine top female gallerists
Dishing the dirt on NY’s women dealers
ArchiveAmedeo Modigliani
Modigliani dies on the silver screen (again)
The artist will be played by Andy Garcia
ArchiveJoseph Cornell
New book and DVD explore the work of Joseph Cornell
Cornell's influence is traced to a breadth of modern art and poetry
ArchiveSalvador Dalí
Salvador Dalí’s forgotten Disney cartoon
After 57 years in the studio’s vaults, the result of an unlikely collaboration is revealed to the public
ArchiveFeatures
Arts on television: Barbara Hepworth & Andrew Lloyd Webber
“Your head is like the loveliest pebble I’ve ever seen” said the sculptor Barbara Hepworth to her second husband, artist Ben Nicholson