InterviewMedia & broadcast
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
ReviewBill Traylor
Whimsy and memory on cardboard: Bill Traylor documentary assembles the fragments of an extraordinary life
A new film explores the work of the artist born into slavery who gained recognition in his eighties
PreviewDocumentary
HBO documentary illuminates how Black artists shaped US art history
The show centres on a landmark 1976 exhibition by the late curator, scholar and artist David Driskell
NewsBeauford Delaney
Covid-19 delays long-planned documentary on Black Abstract Expressionist painter Beauford Delaney
The Tennessee-born artist, part of the Harlem Renaissance before settling in Paris, was largely neglected during his lifetime
NewsArt crime
Criminal claims 13 works from legendary Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist are hidden in a Dublin house
BBC4 documentary—released today—unpicks theory that the stolen art was shipped to Ireland
NewsMedia & broadcast
Our friend Keith Haring: in new BBC documentary buddies of the late artist draw back the curtain
Street Art Boy debuted recently on BBC2 and uses unheard interviews to document Haring's upbringing and work
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
ArchiveMedia & broadcast
Art in the media: History as a developing process
Lodz ghetto photos found in Vienna; Van Dyck reassessed; Tracey Emin in profile
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
ArchiveFilms
Art on Screen from “Lust for Life” to “I Shot Andy Warhol”
David D’Arcy reviews the rash of films about art and artists now being made in the US
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