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200 years after it opened and a century after acquiring its first Van Gogh works, the National Gallery hosted the largest Van Gogh exhibition ever held in the UK (September 14, 2024 to January 19, 2025). The exhibition was a huge success, unanimously praised by the press, and tickets sold out quickly, making this film the only way to see what Forbes called a “once-in-a-lifetime exhibition.” Discover the passion that drove one of the world's most beloved artists to revolutionize art. Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers rewrites history and celebrates Van Gogh's genius without exploiting his suffering, allowing audiences to truly understand this iconic artist in a whole new way...

Nicolas Poussin is quite a paradox! He personified the typical classical French painter, but spent most of his life in Rome… That is where he made his name, gradually progressing from public commissions to private commissions, to finally painting only for a clientele of enthusiastic European art collectors. For them he painted masterpieces which you are about to discover: Et in Arcadia Ego, The Judgement of Solomon, and the Four Seasons. Enjoy your visit! 2013, France.

Between 1928 and 1932, decorator Pierre Chareau built an avant-garde house in Paris, in steel and glass. It's a machine for living, poetic and playful, full of surprises and discoveries, a work as rhythmic as it is beautiful.

In 64 episodes, fun and educational, you will know how to draw an airplane, a fireman, a haunted mansion, a soccer player, a sunset, a lion, the Eiffel Tower, seashells, a fairy... Our master draftsman Gia-Haï Phan will show you the basics of a successful drawing: proportions, perspectives, values, contrasts, volumes, blending, everything is covered.

Raphael Federici (street artist), Marine Goodmorning (illustrator), Luca Fiore (cartoonist) and Harry Boudchicha (drawing teacher) reveal their best drawing techniques. Each episode focuses on a specific subject: movement, oil painting, shadows, hair... For the first 10 minutes, each artist gives a theoretical lesson illustrated by sketches. Then they each start working on their creation. Finally, they end with a debrief, comparing and explaining their techniques

Test and develop your artistic culture with Art Quiz, the game that will allow you to become unaware of art. Whether it's artists, works of art, artistic trends, the price of works... nothing will be a secret for you anymore. Now it's your turn to play!

Two favourite Blue Peter presenters Sarah Greene and Peter Duncan are in the company of Natasha Raskin and Catherine Southon as they hunt for antiques around Surrey, Hertfordshire and North West London. Peter detours to learn how hockey became a popular sport the world over while keen aviator Sarah sees how the Battle of Britain was won. An incredible haul of antiques, including chimney pots, Pinocchio and a pair of African fertility figures, go under the gavel at an auction in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.

In the 1960s, Japanese architects think about reinventing Paris drawing Metabolism, which converts Japanese megalopolis like Tokyo. They stood out in 1971 for the support of the construction of the Center Pompidou; the opportunity to display their new vision of urban planning. Japanese architects then participate in numerous competitions for major works in Paris but will never be successful. Not until the late 1980s for their first major achievements finally emerging in the capital

Move along, there's nothing to see! In April 2018, the Museum "La Piscine de Roubaix" prepared to expand its exhibition space. In a period of six months, several thousand works had to be unhooked, dusted, restored, moved, and reinstalled. These are unique works for which any handling required extreme precautions. Bruno Gaudichon, curator and founder of the museum, had to employ and bring together several workers in ordert to complete a successful reopening.

2000 years of history, mondial cradle of cinema, gastronomic capital… The reputation of Lyon are not more to do. However, there’s a specificity in Lyon that is a special city in France : Murals painting. Discover some of these murals painting, between graphic vertigo and Lyon identity.

For ten days the city of Strasbourg celebrates the inseparable link between art and industry. Through collaborations between companies and contemporary artists, nearly a scores of original works of art will be created and displayed in public spaces. Expertise in critical materials to artists with sculptures made in factories, statues representing the values of a society creations that become the mascot of a company, interconnections and questions about art and industry will be the object of attention. We will discover the works and the actors of the project, through a stroll in the city, in the workshops of artists in the heart of the factory production line.

Raphael Federici (street artist), Marine Goodmorning (illustrator), Luca Fiore (cartoonist) and Harry Boudchicha (drawing teacher) reveal their best drawing techniques. Each episode focuses on a specific subject: movement, oil painting, shadows, hair... For the first 10 minutes, each artist gives a theoretical lesson illustrated by sketches. Then they each start working on their creation. Finally, they end with a debrief, comparing and explaining their techniques

Private Tour takes you to discover the Emil Bührle collection at the Maillol Museum in Paris. This collection is that of Emil Bührle, a student of art history who became passionate about collecting Monet's works after a visit to the National Gallery in Berlin. He started his collection with works by Claude Monet, but continued to fill it with works by Cézanne, Gauguin... Works that you can observe during this visit.

Private Tour takes you to the discovery of the exhibition "Hans Hartung" at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. This exhibition dedicated to this 20th century painter is a retrospective from 1904, the year of his birth, until his death in 1989, where we can observe all his production that was very important in the history of art.

“Happiness is an angel with a serious face.” These words by the Italian painter Amadeo Modgliani define to perfection the portraits which made him famous… He reinvented the icon, with his oval faces, his elongated necks and lapis-lazuli eyes which are strangely expressive even when robbed of substance. You will be able to appreciate the simplicity of his figures, the restraint in his lines and colours, especially when you admire “The Woman with the Blue Eyes” or the “Portrait of Anna Zborowska”. Enjoy your visit!

Between 1928 and 1932, decorator Pierre Chareau built an avant-garde house in Paris, in steel and glass. It's a machine for living, poetic and playful, full of surprises and discoveries, a work as rhythmic as it is beautiful.

Based on a major exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Tokyo Stories spans 400 years of incredibly rich art, from Hokusai’s prints to Pop Art posters, via contemporary photography, manga, cinema and street art. The exhibition was a huge success and attracted a significantly younger and more diverse audience than usual. The film draws on the exhibition to take us to Tokyo and explore the city’s art and artistic figures in greater depth. A superbly illustrated and richly detailed documentary, which traces the journey of a metropolis marked by ceaseless cycles of destruction and rebirth throughout its 400-year history, to become one of the most dynamic and fascinating cities in the world today.

Graffiti World is a short program dedicated to contemporary urban art around the world. Each episode explores a specific city, highlighting iconic works of street art. Local soundscape accompanies the images for an authentic, commentary-free immersion. The program showcases the creativity and diversity of artistic expression in public spaces. An invitation to discover the richness of graffiti as an art form in its own right.

Vincent van Gogh's life remains shrouded in mystery: madness, illness, suicide - all the ingredients to create a myth. With complete and unprecedented access to the treasures of Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum, this documentary sheds light on both one of the world's favorite artists and the museum's rich and unique collection. Discover these marvelous masterpieces on the big screen, while guests including world-renowned curators and art historians offer their interpretations and explanations of Van Gogh's work.

My little Museum is Art History retold through funny anecdotes and backstage trivias by Alicia Flipo. With her wacky demeanor, her inventiveness and her quirky sense of humor, Alicia stages these small Art tales so that once and for all, you could remember the Big stories!

Myriam Mechita has set up her studio in the little-known Lichtenberg district of Berlin, in an old disinfected factory that has become a creative sanctuary for over 200 artists. Meticulous and passionate visual artist, Myriam Mechita approaches her art above all as an extension of her emotions and feelings.

In this episode we go to Brussels to meet the artist Marcin Dudek. Like other artists, he has settled in an old abandoned church and uses it as a studio. In 15 years of artistic practice, this 37 year old Polish artist has crossed multiple forms of creation, from painting to installation, through performance art.

In this episode, we'll meet Ebet Roberts, photographer. She captures the essence of the artists she photographs, while amassing a vast archive and the respect of her peers. Her work has been exhibited worldwide and is included in numerous television shows, music anthologies, posters, advertisements, galleries and private collections, as well as permanent collections for rock and jazz musicians...

In this second episode on Henri Dauman, this famous photojournalist tells us about his years of collaboration with all the major American and European titles. He also confesses his debt to cinema and grammar.

Two favourite Blue Peter presenters Sarah Greene and Peter Duncan are in the company of Natasha Raskin and Catherine Southon as they hunt for antiques around Surrey, Hertfordshire and North West London. Peter detours to learn how hockey became a popular sport the world over while keen aviator Sarah sees how the Battle of Britain was won. An incredible haul of antiques, including chimney pots, Pinocchio and a pair of African fertility figures, go under the gavel at an auction in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.

Legends of stage and screen, Charles Dance and Geraldine James join antiques experts Natasha Raskin and Will Axon on this Road Trip romp around Wiltshire. Charles finds a pair of Edwardian silver vases he hopes will prove profitable at an auction in Essex. Geraldine, however, bumps into a chap in the street with a 19th Century French Empire secretaire. It costs her a small fortune – will the gamble pay off? A diversion from the shops sees Charles end up in the cockpit of a very old helicopter while Geraldine learns how a small part of Swindon dating back 170 years influenced the creation of the modern NHS.

Wilhelm Hansen was a visionary businessman who lived in Denmark in the 19th century. He was one of the few collectors to take an interest in the Impressionist painters, at a time when they were attacked and denigrated. The film takes us to Hansen's summer home on the outskirts of Copenhagen, and to the extraordinary exhibition of his collection at London's Royal Academy.

With loans from across the world, this major retrospective brings together Vermeer’s most famous masterpieces including Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Geographer, The Milkmaid, The Little Street, Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid, and Woman Holding a Balance. In all, 28 of his surviving 37 works. This film invites audiences to a privileged view of the exhibition, accompanied by the director of the Rijksmuseum and the curators of the show. A truly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to discover the genius of Vermeer and his fascinating and mysterious life.

While Andrew and Courtney are tasked with the job of ensuring that their artists’ royalties remain protected in an ever-changing landscape, they equally brainstorm how to exhibit their finished collection in both the physical and meta-worlds for local and international audiences. The pair quickly realize that the success of their launch will be highly contingent on the involvement of the wider community.

The Museum of Hunting and Nature in Paris opens the doors of the imagination of our forests, our jungles, our savannah, and offers a very special experience, to the discovery of animals, and of the relationship, sometimes tragic, sometimes sublime, that we have with them. It is an ode to nature, elevated to the rank of art, and to its wild, simple, ferocious beauty.

Bosch's hometown in the Netherlands has no paintings by the painter, yet for the major "Visions of Genius" exhibition held on the anniversary of his death in 2016, the Noordbrabants Museum has managed to bring together almost all of Bosch's paintings and drawings. "Visions of Genius" was the most ambitious exhibition ever dedicated to the Dutch painter. This documentary will plunge you into the strange, visionary world of Hieronymus Bosch.

This eagerly-awaited exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts was the first-ever retrospective devoted to the portraiture of Édouard Manet. Covering the entire career of this enigmatic and sometimes controversial artist, the exhibition brought together works from Europe, Asia and the United States. Manet's portraiture has never been the subject of an exhibition, although it represents around half of his artistic output. He painted his family, friends and the literary, political and artistic figures of the day, bringing to life not only his subjects but also Parisian society.

The Sunflowers are among Van Gogh's most famous paintings. The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has dedicated an exhibition to these works and Exhibition on screen, which was given exclusive access to the event, guides us through the exhibition to investigate the mysteries surrounding these paintings. The film also takes us to Tokyo, Philadelphia, London and Munich to follow the 5 main works in the exhibition.

Reputed to be the inventor of oil painting, the Flemish painter Jan van Eyck (1390-1441) is a major 15th century artist. He is considered to be the founder of western portraiture and practised this art meticulously. Look closely at the famous “Arnolfini Portrait” exposed at the National Gallery, where the circular mirror at the back of the room shows the artist’s reflection, or the beautiful “Virgin of Chancellor Rolin” exposed at the Louvre, a picture in which three arches open onto a river landscape. Enjoy your visit!

In the 16th century, Cardinal Scipione Borghese, the Pope’s nephew, built a villa specifically to house his private art collection, one of the greatest of its time. Bought by the Italian government in 1902, this wonderfully rich collection brings together masterpieces signed by the greatest of artists. You will find one of the copies of Leda and the Swan by da Vinci as well as Caravaggio’s David. Enjoy your visit!

Test and develop your artistic culture with Art Quiz, the game that will allow you to become unaware of art. Whether it's artists, works of art, artistic trends, the price of works... nothing will be a secret for you anymore. Now it's your turn to play!

It’s a journey into antiquity with glamorous historians Suzannah Lipscomb and Kate Williams. Paired with experts David Harper and Catherine Southon they Road Trip from Bletchley in Buckinghamshire to an auction in London. There’s also opportunity to hear how Mrs Beeton became the first ‘domestic Goddess’ and why Luton played a critical role in the fashion world when hats were de rigueur daily wear. David and Suzannah gamble on a giant ant while Catherine and Kate plump for a very large tea urn.

Today, Photo contest takes you to the Rodin Museum. The director of the photographers’ collective Lengos photo prod presents us two of its members who will compete to take the best photograph on the imposed theme: Rodin and his museum.

François Boucq draws from morning to night in his studio, alone, as if he wanted to be more closely involved with his characters, moving from the savagery of the American West to the diplomacy of the Vatican, from the urban jungle to the news of the daily press. He has been drawing for 40 years with realism, with a precise and detailed line, a graphic finesse that makes him one of the undisputed masters of today's comics.

Take an hour break to discover the work of a Prussian painter, Caspar David Friedrich. You will discover his labour with The Wanderer above the mists, Greifswald port or the Lone tree.

Take an hour break to discover the work of a Spanish painter, Francisco de Goya. You will discover his labour with Lunch in the Countryside, The third of may 1808 or the Cannibals.