NewsMedia & broadcast
BBC Four—UK's specialist arts TV channel—saved from the chop
Critics say new strategy means station will become a home for repeats with less investment in arts programming
NewsExhibitions
Circus of Books online show echoes the need for 'human-to-human' interaction
Timed to coincide with the Netflix documentary on the legendary bookstore and gay haven, the digital exhibition pays homage to "something we are sorely missing during this time in isolation"
BlogInsta’ gratification
Go live and thrive: tips for the art world when livestreaming on Instagram
We speak to livestream novice Denia Kazakou, the founder of RedD Gallery, to get some beginners’ advice
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
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
FeatureMedia
Are commercial galleries the next big content producers?
The top dealers are increasingly becoming audio and video makers and magazine publishers—is it all still about sales?
FeatureVideo, film & new media
Criminally artful heist films to take your mind off the coronavirus this weekend
Heat up some popcorn and find a welcome distraction with some decidedly non-pandemic viewing
FeaturePodcast
Fill your ears with art: the top culture podcasts to listen to during the coronavirus lockdown
If you are craving creativity and are stuck at home, here are the best arty audios to keep you going
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
PreviewPablo Picasso
Royal Academy of Arts to show rare Picasso drawings from ground-breaking 1956 film of the artist at work
Most of the works, created with felt tip pen on newsprint, have been lost, but two have been specially restored for London show
NewsFrieze
Frieze shake-up: former media boss chosen as company's first CEO
Changes are afoot with both the fairs and the magazine as majority shareholder Endeavor make plans for the future
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
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
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
ReviewMedia & broadcast
Speaking frankly: Robert Frank on his work and life
A documentary originally made in 2004 about the Swiss-American photographer and film-maker finally opens in US theaters 15 years later
NewsMedia & broadcast
Dueling documentaries take aim at one of the biggest scams in recent art history
Three productions are due to examine the Knoedler forgery scandal
ReviewMedia & broadcast
Ruben Brandt, Collector is an animated art heist film bursting with references
The comedy is clever, playful and inventive—although the car chases are never-ending
ReviewMedia & broadcast
A man-made landscape is writ large on the screen in Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
After its US premier at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, the visually stunning documentary heads to Berlin
ReviewMedia & broadcast
In broad strokes, Velvet Buzzsaw slashes the art world, but without drawing much blood
It is during the film’s quieter moments that Jake Gyllenhaal’s critical character comes out and John Malkovich is shown to be a sensitive artist
NewsObituaries
Jonas Mekas, ‘godfather of American avant-garde cinema’, dies at 96
Without Mekas, “experimental film is unthinkable”, says Stuart Comer, MoMA's chief curator of media and performance art
BlogLinda on the loose
Art as Healer: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Never Look Away
Gerhard Richter’s post-war coming of age is fictionalised on film
ReviewVideo, film & new media
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
ReviewMedia & broadcast
Nico, 1988: the twilight after the spotlight
Susanna Nicchiarelli’s drama depicts the grim final years of the singer-songwriter
ReviewMedia & broadcast
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
ReviewMedia & broadcast
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
ReviewMedia & broadcast
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
ReviewMedia & broadcast
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
FeatureMedia & broadcast
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
PreviewMedia & broadcast
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
ReviewMedia & broadcast
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
ReviewMedia & broadcast
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
BlogIn the frame
The Ocean’s 8 all-female art heist trailer is out
ReviewMedia & broadcast
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
ReviewMedia & broadcast
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
ReviewMedia & broadcast
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
InterviewMedia & broadcast
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
News
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
NewsMedia & broadcast
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
ReviewMedia & broadcast
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
NewsMedia & broadcast
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
NewsHeritage
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
NewsConservation & Preservation
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
NewsMedia & broadcast
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
News
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
NewsMedia & broadcast
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
NewsMedia & broadcast
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
NewsReview
Jeff Koons on TV: 13 thoughts from the sofa
Matthew Collings reviews BBC profile of US artist
NewsMedia & broadcast
Murakami’s film debut is anything but ‘superflat’
But whether this post-nuclear parable is fine art or pop culture is harder to discern
ArchiveMedia & broadcast
Blind bids, flogging Bacon and a fisherman’s find come to the small screen
Three programmes that turn the art world over to reality television
ArchiveFeatures
Two new programmes: Warhol is remembered by his ageing stars, and original art is taught
Twenty Factory regulars look back on the creative freedom that fuelled the New York enterprise, while three art schools are brought under the microscope
ArchiveArt market
New documentary challenging the gatekeepers of Warhol’s legacy
Alan Yentob shines a revealing light on the secretive world of the Warhol Authentication Board
ArchiveRestitution
Museum inaction on restitution is undermining public trust
Adrian Ellis, director of AEA Consulting, talks on the threat this poses to the perceived legitimacy of cultural institutions
ArchiveMedia & broadcast
Arts on television: Bacon and Hirst as the bad boys of British art
Damien Hirst has carried on Francis Bacon’s violent legacy of “guts, blood and spunk”, but denies any direct inspiration
ArchiveTelevision
Television Guide: Athens '04 Olympics sparks Elgin marbles documentary and The Art Show sheds light on the collector's perspective
The BBC asks whether Lord Elgin's actions could be justified as the spotlight on the Greeks rekindles the Elgin marbles debate, and Channel 4 programme has dealers weigh in on the state of the art market
ArchiveArt market
Set to change whole profile of art publishing, Louise MacBain is on a mission to create media empire
The ex-ceo of Phillips de Pury talks about her plans to create a group of art publications and to make an “Art Davos”
ArchiveBBC
Judith Bumpus on the launch of the BBC’s new digital arts channel BBC4
Here’s hoping that they keep their trousers
ArchiveAndy Warhol
Television Guide: Mario Testino's marriage of glamour and individual identity, Warhol's multi-faceted career, and Philip Lorca diCorcia's submission for the Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize
The Art Newspaper reviews the "Mario Testino, Diana's favourite photographer" (BBC), "Andy Warhol: the complete picture" and the Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize 2002 (Channel 4)
ArchiveMedia & broadcast
Art programmes examine Auerbach and wrestle with the Surrealist subconscious
Recent programmes have focussed on the artist Frank Auerbach and the Tate Surrealism show
ArchiveFeatures
A review of art in the UK media: Dumbing down or opening up?
The question of whether society gets the art it deserves, or merely what it is prepared to tolerate
ArchiveMedia & broadcast
Art in the media: History as a developing process
Lodz ghetto photos found in Vienna; Van Dyck reassessed; Tracey Emin in profile
ArchiveLeonardo da Vinci
The Last Supper restoration: What the media said
The conclusion of the twenty-year project to restore Leonardo’s famous fresco has made headlines around the world The Art Newspaper presents a selection of reactions from the newspapers
ArchiveBerlin
Art in the Media: Norman Foster’s renovated Reichstag, Andy Warhol on video and CNN's The ArtClub comes to London
Air-raising adventures in Berlin, the mythology of Andy Warhol on screen, and The ArtClub hitting its stride at London visual art events
ArchiveMedia & broadcast
Art in the media: Jarvis Cocker tours Outsider Art, Anish Kapoor shows up in Bordeaux and Damien Hirst’s dentist opens wide
April 1999 provided a particularly nourishing media menu
ArchiveMedia & broadcast
Art in the media: The people’s painting—only what we deserve
Komar and Melamid reveal what we like, Tory politician Jeffrey Archer speculates in Warhols, fictional Bacon somewhat censored, and Britain’s own intellectual, Jonathan Miller, on reflection
ArchiveDigital Age
How fares the digital revolution: A look at the Corbis Corporation
We assess the benefits that have accrued to museums and publishers so far
ArchiveArt market
The Barnes Foundation harnesses home-shopping channel
Renoir makes his TV debut as controversy reigns over merchandising
ArchiveFilms
Will the upcoming Warhol biopic be another casualty of art films' tendency to alienate audiences?
The artist's life story will soon be a minor motion picture, but cinema-goers could be disenchanted with such dramatisations