David D'Arcy
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
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
Vito Acconci: the controversial and pioneering US artist who refused all restraint to explore his body
He sat under a floor at a gallery with a microphone for eight hours and masturbated while speaking of his fantasies about people sitting above
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
Legal battle over Schiele works owned by Jewish entertainer who died in Dachau
His heirs’ attempts to recover them will be framed by President Obama’s Holocaust Act
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
Cosmic collectors: how the Guggenheim family came into its art
An exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York looks at how the collection was shaped
Montreal’s Max Stern Foundation gets its Bacchus back
The FBI recovered the work when it was offered for sale at the 2015 Spring Masters fair in New York
Art on film at Sundance, from Van Gogh’s landscapes to an orbiting VR vanitas
Drawings come to life and visitors follow the trail of malware code at the annual film festival in Park City, Utah
What a vivid imagination: on Sergei Eisenstein's erotic work
A group of "sex drawings" by the Soviet filmmaker are on show in New York
Cuban collector’s heirs settle over Wifredo Lam painting that resurfaced in Miami
Artist’s son warns of real and fake works flowing out of Cuba
Custodians of the Holy Land: the Franciscans to open new museum in Jerusalem
The monastic order, which has had a presence in the city since 1217, is planning a two-venue Terra Sancta Museum
Senate to vote on Holocaust restitution bill in a race against the clock
The new law, if passed, would set a national statue of limitations for claims on art looted by the Nazis
The radiant future that never came: on Communist art from the 1930s to today
A show at Galerie St. Etienne in New York looks at how left-wing politics once animated culture—and how they no longer do
How Toronto learned to embrace its street art
After the former mayor’s crackdown on graffiti triggered a backlash, city officials decided to stop arresting artists and start hiring them
The end of the world is coming to Manhattan
Robert Cenedella, the “Art Bastard”, brings his vision of the apocalypse to a gallery window just a week before the US election
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
US museums’ Cuban dreams deferred
High-profile loan programmes are hindered by practical problems and political realities
François Hollande announces $100m fund to protect cultural heritage in the Middle East
The French president was joined by the US vice president Joe Biden at the Metropolitan Museum in New York Tuesday night
Three films to watch out for from the Toronto International Film Festival
From Jonas Mekas darkly humorous memories of escaping the Second World War, to concentration camp tourism, to a photographer facing the death of her favourite technology
Norton Simon Museum can keep Cranachs, California judge decides
A US court has dismissed a claim to recover two paintings looted by Nazis, but collector’s heir plans to appeal
The private pleasures of kings: on nudes from the Prado at the Clark Art Institute
The Spanish Catholic Church tried to curb images of nudity, but artists and patrons did not always oblige
Frida Kahlo’s potent portrait on US-Mexico border heads to Philadelphia
The 1930s painting, on show in October, is a timely response to the anti-immigrant stance of Donald Trump
Bronx Museum postpones show after Cuba halts loans to US
State-owned works of art risk seizure to satisfy $7bn of claims by Americans
Copper and dust: on Mesopotamian sculptures and pastels by Lucas Samaras at the Morgan Library
The shows reveal the twin sides of the museum's interests
Art on film: why filmmakers are drawn to artists
Movies about artists may not be nailed-on money-spinners, but more and more are appearing—and some are even box-office hits.
Is the Israel Museum’s Birds’ Head Haggadah Nazi-era loot?
The manuscript was once owned by the family of a German-Jewish politician who opposed Hitler
Blind, 90-year-old son of Holocaust victims sues to find his family’s art
David Toren has filed a petition in New York State Supreme Court asking the Berlin auction house Villa Grisebach to reveal the buyers of works sold there
A world away from the rest: David D'Arcy on Paula-Modersohn Becker at Galerie St. Etienne
A show of the artist's work reveals her proximity to and distance from both modernism and academicism