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- DirectorMegumi SasakiStarsPaula AntebiWill BarnetRobert BarryHerb and Dorothy Vogel redefine what it means to be an art collector.
- DirectorRebecca DreyfusStarsBlythe DannerCampbell ScottHarold SmithIn March of 1990, two thieves dressed as Boston police officers gained entrance to the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in Boston Massachusetts and successfully executed the largest art heist in modern history. Among the thirteen priceless works stolen was Vermeer's "The Concert" one of only 35 of the masters surviving works. Not a single one of the works has been recovered. STOLEN is a full exploration of the Gardner theft, and the fascinating, disparate characters involved: from the 19th century Grand dame Isabella Gardner to a private detective obsessed with finding the art to a terrorist organization with a penchant for stealing Vermeers.
- DirectorJohn BushStarsSamuel WestRussell BradleyNathalie Cuzner
- 2001–201150m8.5 (9)TV EpisodeDirectorJudith WinnanStarsSamuel WestJuliet Wilson-BareauAnthea CallenArt critics and historians appreciate and analyze Edouard Manet's "Luncheon on the Grass," which was famously rejected by the Salon of 1863. The work sparked a scandal, but won admirers such as Zola and Picasso.
- DirectorCeri SherlockStarsJohn ButlerPeter ConradMark DeryNo doubt its about artist Edvard Munch and his famous painting titled " The Scream"
- 2001–201149m7.2 (13)TV EpisodeDirectorMick GoldStarsSamuel WestDavid BomfordDuncan BullA loving leer at The Rokeby Venus, painted on the sly by Diego Velazquez while on holiday in Italy c. 1647-51. An erotic nude once the private pleasure of a libertine, the painting now stands as an icon of London's National Gallery.
- 2001–201149m8.7 (11)TV EpisodeDirectorBob BentleyStarsSamuel WestTim ClarkRichard CorkCreated as "disposable art" circa 1830, the woodblock print of "The Great Wave" by 70-year-old Katsushika Hokusai has earned acclaim and a place of honor in the art world. Scholars and critics discuss the work's creation and wide influence.
- 2001–201149m8.3 (13)TV EpisodeDirectorLucie DonahueMick GoldStarsSamuel WestRobert BallaghRichard CorkThe Golden Age of Dutch Art boasted Johannes Vermeer (1632-75), whose showpiece, "The Art of Painting" (c. 1666-68), is critically examined and analyzed. The painting's planned prominent role in the ill-fated Third Reich is also described.
- 2001–20118.0 (9)TV EpisodeDirectorJudith WinnanStarsSamuel WestAnne BaldassariMike Bidlo
- 2001–20118.8 (8)TV EpisodeDirectorMick GoldStarsSamuel WestLaurence AnholtDaphne Barbour
- 2001–201149m8.8 (8)TV EpisodeDirectorJudith WinnanStarsSamuel WestColin BaileyJohn Collins'Dance at the Moulin de la Galette' brims over with joie de vivre and the pleasures of a Sunday afternoon. This 1876 painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) and its lesser-known twin are celebrated by art aficionados and historians.
- 2001–201150m7.9 (10)TV EpisodeDirectorMick GoldStarsSamuel WestTariq AliSébastien AllardArtists, academics, and critics discuss the historical origins, original reception, and slow climb to critical acclaim for Eugene Delacroix's painting commemorating the Revolution of 1830, "Liberty Leading the People."
- 2001–20117.8 (7)TV Episode
- 2001–201149m8.1 (12)TV EpisodeDirectorJudith WinnanStarsSamuel WestPhilippa AbrahamsDouglas DruickA critical and popular assessment of "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte - 1884," the iconic pointillist painting by Georges Seurat (1859-91). How the painting made its home in Chicago, much to France's chagrin.
- DirectorSteve CondieStarsSimon SchamaMark HydeJoe Van MoylandSimon argues The Slave ship, one of 7 of his works causing a scandal at the 1840 Royal Academy exhibition, is typical of Turner's feeling from experience, as low-born Covent garden boy affected by family tragedy, for the common man, even prominent in his epic works, deliberately unpolished for grim effect. Despite his membership of the Royal Academy his appearance remained deliberately rough, his later life darkened by disease, loss of close one and a pain-killer which enhanced his morbid imagination. The sea, with uncut fluent lines typical for him, hence his glorious Venice period, is a common element of drama and emotions. His rendering of the Temeraire reflects the mixed public mood as industrialization takes the lead. He sided with the anti-slavery movement gaining momentum to fight slave-trade by others after the British Empire abandoned it, referring to the case of the Sun sixty years earlier, when the captain of the Sun, off Jamaica, decided to swindle the ship's insurance -for losses at sea, nor death at arrival- by dumping 132 live cargo hand-picked. Turner dramatized maximally, even replaced the Caribean sharks by piranhas he knew from Jeroen Bosch's hell scenes and setting a red-gold stormy sky above water cut by a huge dark spot for the scene, supposedly a rising typhoon. The critics were merciless for his denial of artistic conventions, Simon considers it a triumph of expression, plastic expression and even matching a social rebellion in the name of liberty with his artistic one. His more idyllic works seem serial, almost soulless by comparison.
- DirectorCarl HindmarchStarsSimon SchamaAllan CordunerSimon QuartermanMark Rothko, the Anglicized name of a Russian Jewish family which immigrated while he was a child to escape the abusive Cossacks, shortly before father's dead, initially followed the European painting tradition, but felt it failed to express the most meaningful emotions. After decades he developed an abstract style and got the reputation of the US's foremost painter by the 1950s, enough to be commissioned without contest a gigantic work for the Four Seasons restaurant in the Seagram company's New York skyscraper, worth millions, which he ultimately turned down delivering, preferring patrons further from capitalism, which he distanced himself from. Simon highly esteems his work, often sets of abstract paintings each framing an empty space, supposedly the morbid window to a deep meaning. Ruthko's brooding finally lead him to suicide, after a life of chain-smoking already wrecking his health.
- DirectorSteve CondieStarsPep BruscaAnna Coll MillerPep CortésSimon sketches how Pablo Picasso, the Andalusian (south Spanish) hedonistic king of Paris' bohemian painting scene, who for decades deliberately created pioneering modern works, far from the classical traditions of realistic resemblance (in favor of cubism) and themes serving grandeur or devotion, nor aiming at beauty, while remarkably oblivious of contemporary political context, came to paint Guernica, his giant 1937 evocation of the horror of war in the German Luftwafe (airforce) total destruction of the Basque village of that name. Since Picasso was thematically inspired by his compatriot Goya's nightmarish war images, he visited Spain again in 1934, picking up the motives bull, horse and light-bearer, all to stay with him, and since general Franco started in 1936 a civil war, in which the right-wing Catholic country-based reactionaries, massively aided by Hitler's Nazi Germany and Mussolini's Italy which sent 40,000 troops, bitterly fought modernist urban Marxists' elected republican government, at all cost, the personal height of horror being the bombing of Spain's main museum, the Prado palace in Madrid, after which Picasso accepted its largely honorary directorship, while his turbulent love-life intensified his anxiety.
- DirectorBruno NuyttenStarsIsabelle AdjaniGérard DepardieuMadeleine RobinsonCamille Claude impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. He hires her as an assistant, but soon Camille begins to sculpt for herself and she also becomes his mistress. But after a while, she would like to get out of his shadow.
- DirectorEd HarrisStarsEd HarrisMarcia Gay HardenRobert KnottA film about the life and career of the American painter, Jackson Pollock.
- DirectorJulian SchnabelStarsJeffrey WrightMichael WincottBenicio Del ToroThe brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.
- DirectorBanksyStarsBanksyMr. BrainwashSpace InvaderFollowing the style of some of the world's most prolific street artists, an amateur filmmaker makes a foray into the art world.
- DirectorTerry ZwigoffStarsRobert CrumbAline Kominsky-CrumbCharles CrumbAn intimate portrait of controversial cartoonist Robert Crumb and his traumatized family.
- DirectorRichard PressStarsBill CunninghamAnna WintourMichael KorsA profile of the noted and extraordinarily cheerful veteran New York City fashion photographer.
- DirectorLisa Immordino VreelandBent-Jorgen PerlmuttFrédéric TchengStarsDiana VreelandRichard AvedonDavid BaileyA look at the life and work of the influential fashion editor of Harpers Bazaar, Diana Vreeland.
- DirectorR.J. CutlerStarsAnna WintourThakoon PanichgulAndré Leon TalleyA documentary chronicling Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour's preparations for the 2007 fall-fashion issue.