Pauline Kael, rock ‘n’ rollers, Jessica Chastain, and Teddy Pendergrass all are onscreen at this year’s documentary film festival.

The master director holds court, discussing his life in films.

Ukrainian-born Sergei Polunin, the current bad boy of ballet, is the subject of this documentary profile.

With unequaled access to the artist’s work, this terminally tasteful and conflict-averse film vividly showcases the hellfire horrors of the art through powerful lenses that magnify every brushstroke.

The little cool filmmaker who could.

One man’s meditation on art, history, culture, and oppression, Francofonia manages to be grandiose and confining at once. It feels vital because one of the story lines the film pursues—and there are many—is the fate of the Louvre Museum’s art collection under the Nazis.

An introduction to the life and work of a groundbreaking artist and the 1960s art scene.

In the late 1960s, a handful of artists garnered attention for using land as both subject and material. Installation pieces featuring rocks and dirt started cropping up in galleries, and much larger works were created in remote areas of the American Southwest. Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art casts light on this moment in art […]

Her father died on the Titanic. She bought art directly from Picasso, Giacometti, Brancusi, and de Kooning, and drank with them, too. Her failed sexual encounter with Jackson Pollock ended when he “threw his drawers out the window.” And she lived out her last years in a magnificent palazzo in Venice, leaving behind a socko […]