Glass Now is a fascinating documentary exploring contemporary artists and their use of glass.
View Details >>Gothic art from late medieval England and the early years of the Renaissance is revealed in this film in all of its splendour and variety.
View Details >>The extraordinary richness of sculpture from the twelfth to the sixteenth century is revealed in this unique film. Historian Phillip Lindley introduces a selection of surprising and startlingly beautiful artworks from churches and cathedrals in England and Wales.
View Details >>An Illuminations production in association with the V&A. London’s V&A Museum has one of the world’s finest collections of Islamic art from the Middle East.
View Details >>Marcus Gheeraerts II (1561/2-1636) was one of the great portrait artists of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he painted many of the leading Britons of the time, including Elizabeth I.
View Details >>Since 1903 the National Art Collections Fund has helped purchase more than 500,000 works of art for British museums and galleries. Ten of the greatest artworks are celebrated by curators and guests in this film.
View Details >>State of the Art is an exciting, authoritative, and challenging series of thematic documentaries about the visual arts in the 1980s. The six-programme boxset features key artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Joseph Beuys, Cindy Sherman, Antony Gormley, Hans Haacke, and Eric Fischl.
View Details >>Episode 1 of the State of the Art opens with the introduction of ideas from Fredric Jameson, Susan Sontag, Jean-Francois Lyotard and others, before exploring the work of artists including Victor Burgin, Lubaina Himid, Carlo Maria Mariani, Anselm Kiefer, Jorg Immendorff, and Jonathan Borofsky.
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Matthew Bourne brings his unique take on the legendary 1948 feature film.
Shakespeare’s classic love story is given a novel twist by being set in the dystopian “Verona Institution”.
