Patrice a un gros problème. Sa galerie d'art new-yorkaise n'est pas profitable. Gordon et Reggie ont un problème encore plus important. Même si s'occuper de meurtres pour la mafia est une affaire lucrative, ils doivent trouver un moyen de blanchir leur argent. Lorsqu'elle les rencontre grâce à une connaissance mutuelle, le monde de l'art se retrouve en présence de la pègre, et un assassin devient accidentellement une sensation avant-gardiste. Mais l'argent généré entraîne des décisions désastreuses, et la survie du trio se retrouve en jeu.

Dans un monde où nous sommes bombardés de messages publicitaires qui envahissent l’espace public, les œuvres de Banksy offrent un regard différent - un regard à la fois drôle et incisif, sans être dogmatique pour autant. Banksy a fini par convaincre l’Anglais moyen que les véritables vandales de notre société sont ceux qui construisent des immeubles plus hideux les uns que les autres et non ceux qui dessinent sur leurs murs.

Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney combines traditional modes of narrative cinema with filmed elements of performance, sculpture, and opera, reconstructing Mailer’s hypersexual story of Egyptian gods and the seven stages of reincarnation, alongside the rise and fall of the American car industry.

L'ambition et son pouvoir sont au centre de Cremaster 3. L'action se déroule dans le Chrysler Building à New York, dans les années 1929-1930, au moment de sa construction. Matthew Barney superpose l'architecture du building au rite d'initiation des francs-maçons. Chez ces derniers, la progression se fait en trois grandes étapes (apprenti / compagnon / maître) et est marquée par une série d'épreuves. Seule une volonté inflexible permet d'accéder de la base au plus haut niveau et d'atteindre la perfection qui rapproche de Dieu. Cremaster 3 s'ouvre et se clôt par la légende celte de la formation des îles de la mer d'Irlande. Deux géants irlandais et un Ecossais vont s'affronter. Le plus petit d'entre eux a recours à la ruse pour l'emporter.

A young woman who has just started a job at an art museum writes an email to a friend she lived with until recently. The other woman, also young, works as an artist and has just moved to a new city. A narrator reads this email, but we don't know which of the two women the voice belongs to, whether to the sender or to the receiver of the message. Neither are we aware of the details of this relationship; but what we do know is that, in addition to their interest in art, they share a concern for the difficulties of carrying out their personal and professional lives in the present. By focusing on the peripheral or hidden details of some paintings in the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, this narrator relates several stories linked to the social, economic and psychological conditions of the artists, both past and present.

Deux histoires apparemment indépendantes se superposent. La première s'inspire du roman de Norman Mailer, Le Chant du bourreau, fondée sur un fait divers. Gary Gilmore, fils de mormons établis dans l'Utah, a été exécuté après avoir assassiné un jeune pompiste.

La seconde histoire met en scène le magicien d'origine hongroise Harry Houdini célèbre pour ses numéros de métamorphose. Le lien entre ces deux histoires serait d'ordre généalogique : Harry Houdini serait en effet le grand-père de Gary Gilmore.

The epic life of a world-class artist, jammed into six minutes.

This 56-minute documentary on America's most controversial and unique composer manages to cover a great many aspects of Cage's work and thought. His love for mushrooms, his Zen beliefs and use of the I Ching, and basic bio details are all explained intelligently and dynamically. Black Mountain, Buckminster Fuller, Rauschenberg, Duchamp are mentioned. Yoko Ono, John Rockwell, Laurie Anderson, Richard Kostelanetz make appearances. Fascinating performance sequences include Margaret Leng-Tan performing on prepared piano, Merce Cunningham and company, and performances of Credo In Us, Water Music, and Third Construction. Demystifies the man who made music from silence, from all sounds, from life.

Many twentieth century European artists, such as Paul Gauguin or Pablo Picasso, were influenced by art brought to Europe from African and Asian colonies. How to frame these Modernist works today when the idea of the primitive in art is problematic?

In 1919 an art school opened in Germany that would change the world forever. It was called the Bauhaus. A century later, its radical thinking still shapes our lives today. Bauhaus 100 is the story of Walter Gropius, architect and founder of the Bauhaus, and the teachers and students he gathered to form this influential school. Traumatised by his experiences during the Great War, and determined that technology should never again be used for destruction, Gropius decided to reinvent the way art and design were taught. At the Bauhaus, all the disciplines would come together to create the buildings of the future, and define a new way of living in the modern world.

Corpus Peccati is an unconventional and experimental film with a 1 hour and 14 minutes duration, created by filmmaker, photographer and artist Aaron Klusmann. This avant-garde film is a controversial view of sex and liberty, in a deeper understanding of the viewer, the film explores different exposures, between black and white and a red color with vertical rotations during the entire film.

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

No understanding of the modern movement in architecture is possible without knowledge of its master builder, Mies van der Rohe. Together with documentation of his life, this film shows all his major buildings, as well as rare film footage of Mies explaining his philosophy. Phyllis Lambert relates her choice of Mies as the architect for the Seagram building. Mies's achievements and continuing influence are debated by architects Robert A.M. Stern, Robert Venturi, and Philip Johnson, by former students and by architectural historians. Mies is seen in rare documentary footage.

A history of the work of Merce Cunningham.

Narrated by David McCullough, this program examines the infamous Entartete Kunst (degenerate art) exhibition mounted by the Nazis in Munich in 1937 and their far-reaching attacks on avant-garde art in Germany. Witness compelling footage of Nazi book burnings, and of the exhibition itself. Includes interviews with historians, art critics, and eyewitnesses to the events that dramatize this powerful story of the Nazis' assault on modern culture.

Art-loving comedian Joe Lycett joins artists hoping to make it onto the walls of the RA Summer Exhibition 2022, the world’s largest open-submission art contest.

Alan Yentob profiles the most successful female architect there has ever been, the late Zaha Hadid, who designed buildings around the globe from Austria to Azerbaijan.

Le parcours atypique de Loïe Fuller (1862-1928), excentrique et combative pionnière de la danse moderne, dont le travail scénique à la frontière de l’abstraction inspire encore bien des artistes.

A collection of BBC archive material about painter Francis Bacon, including a previously unseen interview recorded in 1965.