Looking for Modern Art: Rethinking Art History (2018)

루브르와 대영박물관에 자신의 작품을 게릴라 전시, 이스라엘이 쌓은 거대한 장벽에 평화의 염원을 담은 벽화를 그리는 등 저항적인 작품 활동을 펼치는 세계적인 그래피티 아티스트 뱅크시. 자신의 신분을 철저히 숨기는 것으로 유명한 그가 거리미술 다큐 감독을 꿈꾸는 괴짜 티에리의 카메라에 포착된다. 위험하지만 짜릿한 쾌감이 있는 거리미술 세계에 매혹된 티에리는 그의 일련의 작업 과정을 집요하게 따라다닌다. 작가의 의도와는 상관없이 상품화 되어가는 미술계의 세태를 지켜보던 뱅크시의 제안으로, 티에리는 거리미술의 본질을 보여줄 다큐멘터리 편집에 돌입하는데...

새학기를 맞는 희망으로 부푼 가을 캠퍼스. 자유로운 캘리포니아를 떠나 뉴잉글랜드의 명문 웰슬리에 새로운 미술사 교수로 오게 된 캐서린 왓슨(줄리아 로버츠) 역시 기대감에 들떠있지만, 보수적인 분위기에 젖어있는 학생들은 캐서린의 자유분방한 사고방식을 반길 마음은 털끝만큼도 없다. 미모와는 달리 냉정하기 짝이 없는 베티(커스틴 던스트), 똑똑함에서 둘째 가라면 서러울 조안(줄리아 스타일스), 프리섹스 물결에 빠진 지젤(매기 질렌홀), 자신이 연주하는 첼로의 아름다운 선율과는 달리 연애에는 쑥맥인 콘스탄스 역시 마찬가지. 하지만 결혼만이 여자 인생의 최고목표가 아니라는 캐서린의 자유롭고 진취적인 주장은 정물화 같던 그녀들에게 차츰 추상화의 생동감을 깃들게 하는데...

56-year-old artist Mindy Alper has suffered severe depression and anxiety for most of her life. For a time she even lost the power of speech, and it was during this period that her drawings became extraordinarily articulate.

A rural American town suffering economically from factory closures finds an unconventional route to recovery with the help of MASS MoCA.

A look at the feud between graffiti artists King Robbo and Banksy.

Sometimes reduced to the image of a cursed artist, Amedeo Modigliani, an admirer of the masters of the Italian Renaissance, has traced an unparalleled path in modern art.

Both a visit to a very peculiar exhibition at the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany, as well as an unprejudiced look at the artistic depiction of violence throughout history and the ways in which that depiction has been gendered.

The film follows the plight of young Zimbabwean artist Kudzanai Chiurai, casting light on the creative process behind his art piece "State of the Nation".

This movement marks the beginning of modern art in Germany. It is the German equivalent of French Fauvism, from which it draws its main inspiration, but it carries an Expressionist and social emphasis that is characteristic of Nordic 'angst.' The artists of Die Brucke were restless creatures, over-sensitive, haunted by religious, sexual, political or moral obsessions. Dramatic landscapes and nudes, mystical and visionary compositions, scenes of the countryside, the streets, the circus, the cafe-dansants and the demi-monde were their principal subjects. Their pure colours blaze in acid stridency, encompassed by rough, dry contours which show the influence of African art and primitive woodcuts. The work of the following is shown: Kirchner, Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, Schmidt-Rottluff, Otto Muller, Emil Nolde and Max Pechstein.

A smaller scale Eiffel Tower and the Champs-Elysées can be found just outside Shanghai; a copy of St. Peter’s in Rome can be found in Yamoussoukro, in the Ivory Coast: a journey over three continents to see the architecture of imitation, the uncanny world of the fake.

M.C. Escher is among the most intriguing of artists. In 1956 he challenged the laws of perspective with his graphic Print Gallery and his uncompleted master-piece quickly became the most puzzling enigma of modern art. Fifty years later, can mathematician Hendrik Lenstra complete it? Should he?

In Europe, road junctions have become public art galleries. A road trip across France, Switzerland, the Canary Islands, Greece and Germany exploring the glorious world of roundabout art.

Shot on 16mm celluloid across parts of New Zealand and Samoa, interdisciplinary artist Sam Hamilton’s ten-part experimental magnum opus makes thought-provoking connections between life on Earth and the cosmos, and, ultimately, art and science. Structured around the ten most significant celestial bodies of the Milky Way, Apple Pie’s inquiry begins with the furthest point in our solar system, Pluto, as a lens back towards our home planet and the ‘mechanisms by which certain aspects of scientific knowledge are digested, appropriated and subsequently manifest within the general human complex’. Christopher Francis Schiel’s dry, functional narration brings a network of ideas about our existence into focus, while Hamilton’s visual tableaux, as an extension of his multifaceted practice, veer imaginatively between psychedelic imagery and performance art.