PreviewExhibitions
Dublin show presents Derek Jarman as you've never seen him before
The first major survey of the film-maker’s work includes experimental set design and never-before-seen paintings
FeatureMedia
From 'piecemealing' medievalist to TV darling: how Janina Ramirez is championing slow media about culture
The shows Raiders of the Lost Past and Handmade in Bolton on the BBC and the scholar's popular podcast reflect a thirst for in-depth knowledge
PreviewExhibitions
Back to the future: Nam June Paik's chapel and TVs take over at Tate Modern
London exhibition brings together more than 200 works by the Korean-born video and installation pioneer
NewsCommissions
New Rolls-Royce initiative encourages artists to make video, animation and VR works
Scheme is part of the luxury car manufacturer's new vision for its art programme to “encourage artists to expand the limits of the imaginable”
NewsArtist interview
'Artists have to be good citizens': Himali Singh Soin on Brexit, climate change and the alien other
Frieze Artist Award winner’s Arctic-inspired video draws on the Victorian Ice Age to talk about today's big issues
BlogIn the frame
Pictures of matchstick men: celebrating L.S. Lowry in a new film—and with a garden statue?
BlogIn the frame
Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film Pain and Glory puts the art in arthouse
NewsArt Basel 2019
Now showing: why do art fairs neglect video art?
Collector interest in videos is rising, but the medium still struggles to find floor space
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A documentary originally made in 2004 about the Swiss-American photographer and film-maker finally opens in US theaters 15 years later
PreviewExhibitions
Video pioneer Ericka Beckman gives patriarchal canon a bashing
The works and installations of the overlooked peer of Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince go on show at MIT List Visual Arts Center
NewsVideo, film & new media
Berlin collector turns Nazi-era Luftwaffe building into home for video art
Software entrepreneur Markus Hannebauer opens Fluentum to the public with Dutch artist Guido van der Werve
ReviewVideo, film & new media
Julian Schnabel’s Van Gogh film is moody and marvellous in spells—but gets two things crucially wrong
At Eternity’s Gate, based on the Dutch artist’s life, is released in the UK today
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
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the "computer cowgirl" Gretchen Bender to Girault de Prangey's haunting snapshots of the past
NewsObituaries
Experimental film-maker Barbara Hammer dies, aged 79
The pioneer of lesbian film became an advocate for medical aid in dying
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
NewsCensorship
Ai Weiwei’s contribution to Berlin movie scrapped amid censorship fears
“It was infuriating to find our involvement had been erased,” Ai says
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
FeatureBill Viola
Kira Perov: the ‘guardian angel’ in Bill Viola’s life and work
As the Royal Academy in London prepares to open a show uniting the US video artist with Michelangelo, his wife and collaborator discusses her pivotal role in his process
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
BlogIn the frame
Party like you're 99 with the new documentary, The Last Resort
FeaturePhotography
Edward Woodman: the light and space of a golden era
UK retrospective freeze-frames often ephemeral works from the 1980s and 1990s
BlogIn the frame
Rose McGowan back on screen in all-encompassing art film
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From centuries of printmaking to video art pioneers
AnalysisArt market
Will the market for AI art take off?
With no auction precedent and little primary market data, Christie's sale of a work made by an algorithm tests demand
NewsPodcast
The National’s 'sweetest song': how Ragnar Kjartansson convinced US rock band to play a song repeatedly for six hours
Icelandic artist's video work is in New Museum's pop-up show in London
PreviewExhibitions
Huge London show celebrates a decade of video installations from New York’s New Museum
Exhibition at The Store X includes works by 21 artists made in the 21st century
NewsPodcast
Christian Marclay on the physical demands of making The Clock
The Swiss-American artist tells this week’s The Art Newspaper podcast about the effects of the three years’ editing of his masterpiece, now on view at Tate Modern
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
PreviewExhibitions
How video games grew up and became a major cultural force
Victoria and Albert Museum show promises an in-depth exploration of gaming design and culture
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
The revealing story of the painting that inspired Julian Schnabel’s new Van Gogh film
Vincent painted At Eternity’s Gate, the title of the film premiering in Venice, when he was at the asylum
InterviewVideo, film & new media
‘I like the liberation of film’: the photographer and experimental film-maker Duane Michals explains why he prefers moving pictures
The 86-year-old artist is showing three new short films at DC Moore Gallery in New York
ReviewExhibitions
John Akomfrah digs into history’s darkness at the New Museum
The British film-maker’s first US museum survey at the New Museum shows that he is one of the most forceful and stirring artists of the day—and one of our best social archaeologists
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
BlogIn the frame
Lily Cole steps behind the camera for Emily Brontë film
NewsResearch
Palestinian stories reconstructed through films, photographs and artefacts confiscated by Israel
An Israeli art historian has spent 20 years trawling the country’s archives for Palestinian cultural property
InterviewFrieze New York
On the road, from Iraq to Germany
The Iraqi-Kurdish artist Hiwa K on migration and contemporary politics
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
NewsVideo, film & new media
TED-style art history platform aims to promote arts education online
Heni Talks features videos from artists including Damien Hirst and Jeremy Deller
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
NewsArt market
Art Basel in Hong Kong welcomes more mainland galleries
Dealers from across Asia are ramping up their presence, and around half of the projects in the Kabinett sector are by Asian artists
BlogIn the frame
Rashid Johnson’s Native Son film finds its star
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
NewsBuilding projects
New York art and technology organisation announces new programmes for its 20th anniversary
Eyebeam plans residencies, fellowships and exhibitions for its new Brooklyn headquarters
News
Hirshhorn to re-stage postponed Krzysztof Wodiczko projection in March
The museum stopped showing the "unbearably relevant" work, which has two hands holding a gun and a candle, after Parkland shooting
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
NewsVideo, film & new media
Hirshhorn to reschedule Krzysztof Wodiczko’s monumental projection after Florida school shooting
The 30-year-old piece showing two hands holding a gun and a candle is "strangely familiar and at once unbearably relevant", the artist says
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Cornelia Parker: from Westminster Hall to Cambridge’s Kettle's Yard
NewsCommissions
Cornelia Parker captures dystopian political era in new works for UK’s snap election
First female Election Artist unveils two new videos and a series of photographs using drones and Instagram
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
NewsArtists
Oscar nomination for street photographer JR and film-maker Agnès Varda
Movie follows JR's travels through France, as he photographs everyday people and pastes their giant portraits onto buildings
NewsAcquisitions
Tacita Dean’s film of Hockney smoking bought by Royal Academy and National Portrait Gallery
Acquisition heralds triptych of London shows dedicated to Dean
BlogIn the frame
Forget the Lobster Telephone, Salvador Dali’s pièce de résistance was crayfish with herbs
NewsBiennials & festivals
High-tech art in Houston: data-driven installations look at issues like Hurricane Harvey and mass incarceration
The works were commissioned and presented as part of the art and music festival Day for Night
NewsVenice Biennale 2019
Canada announces first presentation of Inuit art for 2019 Venice Biennale
Video collective Isuma will tell story of indigenous culture in Canadian pavilion
NewsArtists
Banksy and Danny Boyle create Alternativity in Bethlehem, despite never meeting
Street artist and film director staged performance that was filmed for BBC Two documentary which will air this weekend
NewsPerformance art
Zardulu behind video of iguana appearing in Miami family’s toilet
The performance piece, viewed by millions as a viral news story, was based on an ancient Greek myth of Kronos usurping the throne of Ouranos, the artist tells us
NewsArt Basel in Miami Beach
In pictures: Art Basel in Miami Beach Public sector
Artists claim their turf in Miami Beach
NewsFairs
Basquiat Boom reaches Miami Beach
Documentary about artist’s life screens at Art Basel in Miami Beach
BlogIn the frame
Beyoncé and the Louvre win Instagram gold
The social media platform has revealed its most popular people, places and hashtags in 2017
NewsExhibitions
Kehinde Wiley unveils debut film in London
US artist's new work examines migration, madness and colonisation in contemporary America
NewsVideo, film & new media
Art history-inspired film Manifesto starring Cate Blanchett opens in the UK
From Futurists to Supermatists, Hollywood star takes on thirteen characters to recite famous artist manifestos