Documentary
Laura Poitras’s Nan Goldin documentary powerfully balances biography with anti-Sackler activism
In All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, currently showing in Toronto, the Sacklers become a personification of the oppressive social order that cost many of Goldin’s peers their lives
Documentary on Nan Goldin’s campaign against the Sacklers wins the Golden Lion in Venice
Laura Poitras’s All the Beauty and the Bloodshed presents artist's efforts to bring some family members to justice following her own recovery from opioid addiction
Laura Poitras documentary on Nan Goldin’s campaign against the Sacklers to show at New York Film Festival
The film, “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed”, chronicles Goldin’s life, career and activism around the opioid crisis
Life inside Nazi death camps, as captured in prisoners’ clandestine photographs
Christophe Cognet on his new documentary, From Where They Stood, which focuses on extermination camp prisoners’ photographic acts of resistance
A new documentary tracks the ups and downs of ‘making it’ in the contemporary art world
Kelcey Edwards’s documentary delves into some of the open secrets underpinning today’s art world
A new documentary offers an elegy for the Chelsea Hotel and New York’s bohemian middle class
“Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel” avoids outright nostalgia for an earlier New York, instead impressionistically bemoaning its disappearance
New documentary sheds light on artist Eric Ravilious, a romantic visionary lost in war
Ravilious was the first artist to be killed on active service during the Second World War
AI uncovers Warhol’s true voice in Netflix documentary
The Andy Warhol Diaries foregrounds the Pop artist’s personal relationships and struggles—with an artificial intelligence Warhol as narrator
Netflix’s Andy Warhol Diaries has taken the art world by storm. We asked some of its subjects what they really think about the documentary
At Sundance, new films tackle painful legacies through archaeology, urban design and more
Also featured is a visually stunning documentary about bird rescuers in Delhi and a cinematic essay about the sexual power dynamics of cinema
Artist Andres Serrano debuts film placing Capitol attack footage in context of US’s violent history
Serrano’s debut film montages the footage created by Capitol attackers with earlier recordings, creating a portrait of a nation at war with itself
The top four art documentaries at DOC NYC
The documentary festival includes films about Jesse Krimes, Eadweard Muybridge and the fraught power dynamics of making money from art
Afghan Girl cameraman Steve McCurry fears for a world without photojournalism
Fabled Magnum photojournalist expresses continued belief in Western documentary photography as film on his life premieres at DOC NYC
JR takes on borders and prisons in new film
The French artist’s special gift is to make subversive images seem not just unthreatening, but irresistible
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
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
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
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
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
Are you a Turner or Constable man? David Hockney weighs in on Britain's greatest art rivalry
In behind-the-scenes footage from an award-winning documentary, the British artist talks about being part of the great landscape painting tradition
‘I transformed it’: watch David Hockney’s painting process by the side of a Yorkshire road
In behind-the-scenes footage from an award-winning documentary, the British artist shows his en plein air painting style
‘I like perversity’: David Hockney on not being mainstream and why he doesn't care
In behind-the-scenes footage from an award-winning documentary, the British artist discusses why he pursued illustration when others deemed it unworthy
Caravaggio used a camera? David Hockney's controversial claim reframes narrative of Western art history
In behind-the-scenes footage from an award-winning documentary, the British artist discusses how mirrors and lenses were used by Old Masters to create proto-photographic images
Who is the most famous US artist of the 20th century? David Hockney explains his choice
In behind-the-scenes footage from an award-winning documentary, the British artist talks about the art he believes remains fresh and memorable today
‘There might be another life after death’: David Hockney on mortality
In behind-the-scenes footage from an award-winning documentary, the British artist talks about religion, spirituality and what happens when you die
'Women love my work': David Hockney on his fans
In behind-the-scenes footage from an award-winning documentary, the British artist ponders what it is about his paintings that appeals more to female viewers
David Hockney’s secret to interesting images
In behind-the-scenes footage from an award-winning documentary, the British artist explains why one should never concentrate too much on a central subject
Attracted to the uncaptured: David Hockney on how he chooses his subjects
In behind-the-scenes footage from an award-winning documentary, the British artist discusses what the scenes of Yorkshire and California have in common
‘Painting, reading and a few nights of nice sex’: David Hockney on his daily life
In behind-the-scenes footage from an award-winning documentary, the British artist discusses how his life is much more sedate than people imagine
'It engulfs everything': David Hockney on nature
In behind-the-scenes footage from an award-winning documentary, the British artist discusses the woodland setting of one of his plein-air paintings