Art documentaries

Whether you’re a film buff or a fresh convert, Artsper is here to help you discover 5 documentaries on art. An entertaining and educational watch!

If you are going to spend time watching a movie about drawing, painting or your other art-related hobby, you're going to want to make sure it's a good one.

Dreams, Akira Kurosawa (1990)

Looking for something cool to watch on TV? Here's my guide to the 30 best films and documentaries for art lovers, culture vultures, and cinephiles in general.

My usual date for a Saturday night in is something mindless like Keeping Up With the Kardashians (reserve your judgments, people). But every once in a while, I’m reminded that it can be just as fun to watch something with more substance. It elevates a cozy weekend night into something really fulfilling and educational. Even when I polish off a bottle of wine as I watch.

Documentary filmmakers are speaking out about the toll the movie-making process takes on them in the wake of tragic losses.

Collater.al interviewed photographer Giulia Parlato on the occasion of Diachronicles, her exhibition at the Milan Triennale.

artnet News compiles a list of the top 10 art documentaries you can't miss. Find out which movies made the cut.

The idea of what a documentary is has shifted according to what has—and hasn’t—been possible during the past hundred years. But the artistic preoccupations of their creators have not changed radically in that time.