Work of Art: The Next Great Artist is a reality TV show that follows a group of artists as they compete in various challenges to showcase their artistic talent. The contestants create unique works of art using different mediums, from painting and photography to performance art and sculpture. Each week, they face critiques from a panel of art experts and a guest judge, with one artist being eliminated until a winner is crowned. The show provides a behind-the-scenes look into the art world and explores different artistic styles and techniques.
In 1943 during World War II, the Monuments Men, a group of museum directors and art historians, embark on a mission to save art treasures from being lost or looted. They face challenges from both the Allied forces and the Germans. Along the way, they encounter resistance from a curator in Paris, collaborate with resistance fighters, and find hidden caches of artwork. Despite the risks and setbacks, they succeed in rescuing and preserving vast quantities of art. Decades later, their efforts are celebrated and the impact of their sacrifice is appreciated by future generations.
In this drama, an American art student is trapped amidst the political turmoil of war-torn Europe while visiting Paris and staying at the fabulous Ritz hotel. Rather than cope constructively with it all, the fellow opts to ignore it and continue living the high-life for as long as possible.
Short documentary about artist Keith Haring, detailing his involvement in the New York City graffiti subculture, his opening of the Pop Shop, and the social commentary present in his paintings and drawings.
After being fired from a job at an art gallery, an art expert suffers a mental breakdown and starts engaging in criminal activities. A detective takes on the case to unravel the truth behind the man's actions.
Series tracking down lost, hidden, and misattributed paintings from local museums and galleries across Britain.
In Doors Open, a group of friends, including a self-made millionaire, an art professor, and a banker, plan an art heist in Edinburgh. Their target is a valuable collection of paintings in a gallery, which they plan to steal and replace with forgeries. However, their plan becomes complicated when they discover that other criminals have the same idea. As they navigate through double-crosses and unexpected twists, the group must rely on their friendship and expertise to pull off the heist.
An Italian painter, Antonio Berti, pays a visit to Reims to his friend Robert Maurisson, a banker with political views on the town hall, who hides, under an affable air and an irreproachable dignity, a libertine and cynical temperament. Charged by the notable with the restoration of paintings exhibited in the cathedral, the artist calls on Cathy, a young girl from the choir, to serve as his model. The young girl will be found dead a few hours after their interview, near one of Robert's properties.
In 1970s London, a disabled woman gets caught up in a crime involving an art expert, a thief, and an auction house. Along the way, she also finds romance. The story explores themes of disability, art, and love.
After inheriting a New York City art gallery, bookie Milton Berle and his partner Cesar Romero decide to go into the art forgery business. Director Ray McCarey's 1942 comedy also stars Carole Landis, J. Carrol Naish, Steven Geray, Richard Derr, Rose Hobart, Elisha Cook Jr., Chick Chandler, Francis Pierlot and Jerome Cowan.
This documentary tells the true story of a massive art forgery scandal involving abstract expressionist paintings. It explores the intricate world of art fraud and the consequences it had on the art market.
Norval Morrisseau was the first Indigenous Canadian artist to be taken seriously in the art world. By the turn of this century his work commanded tens of thousands of dollars. So when Barenaked Ladies keyboardist Kevin Hearn learned his prized painting was a forgery, he sued. But as Jamie Kastner's doc reveals, there was a cottage industry in fake Morrisseaus, an industry that flourished unchecked for years, feeding on greed, exploitation, racism and contempt.
In 2014 a large painting representing Judith Beheading Holofernes was discovered in an attic in Toulouse, France. A controversy ensued immediately about the attribution of the painting's authorship to Caravaggio. The documentary follows a famed art expert in charge of organizing the sale of the painting on behalf of the owners, while specialists debate on its authenticity.
This is set in the world of the Old Masters and offers a mosaic of gripping stories in which unrestrained passion for Rembrandt's paintings leads to dramatic developments and unexpected plot turns.
A male nurse steals some of one of his patient's drawings and makes money with them.
Art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon uncovers the truth behind the greatest art heist of the 21st century. In December 2002, two priceless paintings were stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in a brutal and audacious robbery.
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