Film
A New Film Charts 150 Years of African-American Art
Black Is the Color, a 50-minute documentary, offers a survey of African-American art from 1867 to today.
Documentary
Film
Andy Goldsworthy's Ephemeral Art and Laborious Process, in a New Documentary
In the documentary Leaning into the Wind, the celebrated sculptor and environmental artist muses on the impermanence of his art.
Film
A Yayoi Kusama Documentary Tracks a Life in Polka Dots
Kusama – Infinity spotlights both the artist's radically successful career and how art can be a method of healing.
Film
A Documentary Lays Bare the Absurdity of the Art Market
The Price of Everything, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, looks at the trends and gambles of the art market.
Film
A New Documentary Reveals the Living, Breathing Joseph Beuys
For the first documentary ever made about Beuys, director Andres Veiel dug into the archives, creating a film that is 95% footage of the artist.
Film
The Story of an Unrealized Domed City for Minnesota
The Experimental City, directed by Chad Freidrichs, revisits the late 1960s plan for a city in Minnesota that would solve urban problems through futuristic technology and design.
Art
Tracing the Life and Times of Self-Taught Artist Bill Traylor in a Documentary
The documentary film Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts is crowdfunding on Kickstarter to premiere alongside next year's Smithsonian retrospective on the self-taught artist.
Art
A Poetic Documentary on Carolee Schneemann
This unusual documentary on the artist is screening on Saturday at Metrograph, where Schneemann will also be in attendance.
Art
Virtually Explore Centuries of Human Settlement Along the South Carolina Coast
Between the Waters is an interactive documentary on the centuries of human settlement in South Carolina's Hobcaw Barony.
Film
The Sanitation Worker Who Finds Stories in What the Deceased Leave Behind
The short film A Garbage Story follows Nick DiMola as he cleans the debris from the homes of the deceased and departed in New York.
Art
Finally, a Joseph Beuys Documentary
A new trailer shared exclusively with Hyperallergic gives a glimpse of Beuys, a new documentary about the legendary conceptual artist.
Art
Documenting the Many Contradictions of Contemporary China
The Guggenheim's series Turn It On: China on Film, 2000–2017, curated by Ai Weiwei and Wang Fen, gathers documentaries by Chinese artists and filmmakers.