Virtual Spotlight

This book bridges a gap between art history, film studies and popular culture by investigating how the film genre of biopics adapts written biographies. It identifies the functionality of the biopic genre and explores its implication for a popular art history that is projected on the big screen for a mass audience.

Richard Pells reveals how the American artists and entertainers who were part of the Modernist movement were greatly influenced by globalist ideas and techniques, resulting in a culture that has dominated the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and fulfilled the aim of the Modernist movement—to make the modern world seem more intelligible.

Lowey and Prince take the reader on a dazzling journey through the visual art and design of alternative cultures in America from the 1950s to the present day.

An examination of the continuities and differences between American Impressionism and Realism from 1885-1915, provided digitally by The Libraries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

This volume documents a groundbreaking convening on January 28, 2017 in The Met's Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, inspired by the exhibition of American artist Kerry James Marshall: Mastry. During the daylong event twenty noted thought leaders and creative practitioners considered the role of creativity, hard work, social justice, and imagination in art history, performance, science, and other disciplines inspired by visual artist Kerry James Marshall's practice and work.

Kanopy offer's their own curated collection of 30+ films exploring art in America.

Andy Warhol’s aluminum foil-covered Silver Factory becomes the hot bed of avant-garde creativity in Sixties New York City. Recalled by those who were there and lived to talk about it.

In the 1980s, Richard Hambleton was the Shadowman, a specter in the night who painted hundreds of startling silhouettes on the walls of lower Manhattan and, along with Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, sparked the street art movement.

"A celebration of American ingenuity," Automorphosis takes a deep dive into the eccentric world of "artcars." On a humorous and touching journey, viewers discover what drives the creative process for these unconventional artists.

"Protest" -- an episode of the Art in the 21st century series-- examines how American artists An-My Lê, Jenny Holzer, Nancy Spero and others use their work to picture war, express outrage and empathize with the suffering of others.

This 1981 documentary film by Manfred Kirchheimer about graffiti in New York City is set to a commentary-free soundtrack that combines ambience with jazz and gospel.