Obey Giant (2017)

The life and career of street artist, illustrator, graphic designer, activist, and founder of OBEY Clothing, Shepard Fairey.

Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film (2006)

Rare archival film footage and interviews illustrate filmmaker Ric Burns' tribute to art-world icon Andy Warhol.

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (2010)

Julian Schnabel, Fab 5 Freddy and others discuss the work of the late painter, who took the art world by storm in the 1980s.

The Price of Everything (2018)

With unprecedented access to pivotal artists and the white-hot market surrounding them, this film dives deep into the contemporary art world, holding a fun-house mirror up to our values and times.

Burden (2016)

The life of the always provocative artist Chris Burden, whose work consistently challenged ideas about the limits and nature of modern art, from his notorious performances in the 1970s to his later works.

Superstar (1990)

Filmmaker Chuck Workman profiles pop artist Andy Warhol through interviews with friends and colleagues.

Wyeth (2018)

WYETH tells the story of one of America's most popular, but least understood, artists. While his exhibitions routinely broke attendance records, art world critics continually assaulted his work.

Crumb (1994)

An intimate portrait of controversial cartoonist Robert Crumb and his traumatized family.

There Are No Fakes (2019)

A painting, apparently the work of an iconic Native artist, leads the rockstar who buys it into the tragic, brutal world of an art forgery ring in Canada's far north.

Painters Painting (1972)

Filmmaker Emile de Antonio shows New York artists from 1940-70: Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Helen Frankenthaler, Andy Warhol.

The Girl From Jones Beach (1949)

A pinup artist (Ronald Reagan) in search of the perfect woman poses as a Czech immigrant to win over a shapely schoolteacher (Virginia Mayo) who’s more into facts than figures.

Klimt (2006)

A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Original Copy (2015)

Bollywood stars shine larger than life in the one-of-a-kind film posters hand painted by Mumbai's last screen painter, but as his workshop is threatened by demolition and his livelihood by plastic posters, he fights to pass on his craft.

The Gleaners and I (2000)

Varda films and interviews gleaners in France in all forms, from those picking fields after the harvest to those scouring the dumpsters of Paris.

Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang (2016)

Trace the rise of contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang from childhood in Mao's China to global art world superstar, and join his quest to realize his lifelong obsession: Sky Ladder.

Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love (1977)

Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible (2020)

The film explores the life, philosophy and impact of one of the most influential early 20th century modernists, Marcel Duchamp. The film breaks down Duchamp's ideas and applies them to both historical events and the modernist explosion that blanketed the early 20th century. Art of the Possible isn't simply a biopic; rather, the film shows how Duchamp's ideas changed t...Read all

In the Realms of the Unreal (2004)

Filmmaker Jessica Yu uses Henry Darger's book to explore his life and mindset, supplementing his own drawings and words with interviews from people who knew him.