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"The true story of the world's most prolific art thief--a spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, from the bestselling author of The Stranger in the Woods. For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly ten years--in museums and cathedrals all over Europe--Breitwieser,...
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Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thief to track down the world's most valuable missing painting but soon finds himself in a desperate race to prevent an unthinkable conflict between Russia and the West.
The Carabinieri have made a startling discovery in the Amalfi villa of a murdered South African shipping tycoon: a secret vault containing an empty frame and stretcher matching the dimensions...
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"In this unflinching, deeply personal book that expands on her instantly viral Paris Review essay, "What Do We Do With the Art of Monstrous Men?" Claire Dederer asks: Can we love the work of Hemingway, Polanski, Naipaul, Miles Davis, or Picasso? Should welove it? Does genius deserve special dispensation? Is male monstrosity the same as female monstrosity? Does art have a mandate to depict the darker elements of the psyche? And what happens if the...
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"Featuring a cadre of the world's most talented creators, 'Spectrum 17' showcases over 400 stunning works that intrigue, challenge, and ultimately satisfy our imaginations. Paint, pixels, ink, clay, wood, and bronze, all are molded and manipulated and applied to bring astonishing images of the fantastic to vibrant life. Also included in this beautiful full-color collection is a tribute to this year's Grand Master Award recipient Al Williamson, a comprehensive...
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"Afro-Atlantic Histories brings together a selection of more than 400 works and documents by more than 200 artists from the 16th to the 21st centuries that express and analyze the ebbs and flows between Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe. The book is motivated by the desire and need to draw parallels, frictions and dialogues around the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic territories--their experiences, creations, worshiping and philosophy....
6) Cy Dear
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Cy Twombly was a truly amazing artist: painter, illustrator, sculptor, and photographer. This documentary is a tribute to the prolific American creator, a contemporary of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns who inspired Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Francesco Clemente, and Julian Schnabel.
7) Black Sun
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Blinded in a New York City mugging, artist Hugues de Montalembert defied expectations by continuing his work- a poetic meditation on life without vision.
9) DocoBANKSY
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Find the truth and explore the impact that the world’s most famous graffiti artist has had on the art world, on the expression of protest and satire, and on the perception of what you can do with a spray can and a stencil.
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The film features artist Frank Stella as he walks us through his 2012 exhibition “Black Aluminum Copper Paintings” at L&M Arts. The film also features commentary on Frank’s life and career from Adam Weinberg (Alice Pratt Brown Director, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY) and Ann Temkin (Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Curator of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, NY).
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"The punk movement of the 1970s to early 1980s is examined as an art movement through archive research, interviews, and art historical analysis. It is about pop, pain, poetry, presence, and about a 'no future' generation refusing to be the next artworld avant-garde, instead choosing to be the 'rear-guard'. Skov draws on personal interviews with punk art protagonists from London, New York, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and Berlin, among others the members...
12) See Memory
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Created through 30,000 painting stills, the film explores how our memories define who we are, how we remember, and the inextricable link between memory and imagination. The title was inspired by Oliver Sacks' essay "Speak, Memory" and narration is based on interviews with neuroscientists and psychiatrists, including Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel. The film explores our "magical capability" called memory, the essence of what we call "self. The moving paintings...
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The documentary draws an in-depth portrait of the masked Robin Hood of the art world. Each investigation reveals a facet of the artist: his political views; commitment to environmental causes and political refugees; his links with the music scene and his entrepreneurial side. All in search of an answer to the question: do we need to know the artist behind the name to appreciate the artwork?
14) Museum town
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Tells the story of a unique museum, the small town it calls home, and the great risk, hope, and power of art to transform a desolate post-industrial city. MASS MoCA is the largest museum for contemporary art in the world, but just three decades before, its vast brick buildings were the abandoned relics of a massive shuttered factory. How did such a wildly improbable transformation come to be? A testament to tenacity and imagination, Museum Town traces...
15) Journal sparks: fire up your creativity with spontaneous art, wild writing, and inventive thinking
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Using words, drawing, collage, and observation-based list-making, award-winning author Emily K. Neuburger highlights the many paths into journaling. Her 60 interactive writing prompts and art how-tos help you to expand your imagination and stimulate your creativity. Every spread invites a new approach to filling a page, from making a visual map of a day-in-my-life to turning random splotches into quirky characters for a playful story. ? lt's the perfect...
16) Instant Dreams
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Instant film production came to a halt after Polaroid shut down in 2008, but a group of engineers are trying to recreate the lost formula behind instant film. The documentary follows three people with a deep love for Polaroid and along with archival footage delves into the chemistry, artistry and history behind this technological behemoth of the 20th century. Nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the **Slamdance Film Festival** and **San Francisco...
17) Close to Vermeer
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Go behind the scenes of the largest Vermeer exhibition ever mounted, now on view at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Capturing the imagination of the art world – with glowing reviews, global publicity, and tickets sold out through the entirety of its run – the Rijksmuseum's Vermeer retrospective is nothing short of an historic event. Suzanne Raes’s film follows curators, conservators, collectors, and experts in their joint mission to shine a new...
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Immerse yourself in printmaking artist Brian’s world at his home and workshop on the coast of Maine — his model airplanes and trains, wall-to-wall books and curling wooden staircase up to his studio, the vintage MG in his garage which shares space with a printing press — and above all, Brian’s work: the copper plates and engraving tools, mixing ink and wiping plates, working on his plates and printing from them, his hands and what it means...
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James Rosenquist (1933-2017) was an influential American Pop artist, best known for his collage paintings, such as F-111 and President Elect. The artist used his commercial background to create surrealist works that helped define the Pop art movement. The film follows the life and career of James Rosenquist, with commentary from Ann Temkin (Mare Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, NY), Sarah Bancroft...
20) Raphael Revealed
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Marking the 500th anniversary of Raphael’s death, the greatest exhibition ever held of his works took place in Rome, Exhibition on Screen was granted exclusive access to this once-in-a-lifetime show. With over two hundred masterpieces, including paintings and drawings – over a hundred of which have been brought together for the first time – this major exhibition celebrates the life and work of Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino. With unprecedented loans...
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