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"Now Showing: Posters from African American Movies" showcases how movie poster design has been used to frame ideas, create moods and stoke interest in films and characters.

For those who know him as a filmmaker, Stanley Kubrick’s early stint as a photojournalist is a revelation.

Fuzzy white hair, like a halo, rings the head of Christo, the artist known for creating monumental site-specific works worldwide.

While he’s best known as two-time Oscar-nominated director for such lauded films as Good Will Hunting and Milk, Gus Van Sant began his creative life as an art student at Rhode Island School of Design…

A Gothic Tale, a newly commissioned film and installation for the Legion of Honor by Alexandre Singh, draws inspiration from the Gothic literary tradition of 19th century Europe, as well as San…

Films about “great” male artists like Picasso and Van Gogh abound, but if you look hard and dig deep enough you’ll find films about great women artists, some well-worth watching, others, not so much.

A 600-year-old painting leads two art conservators in Florence on a journey that sheds light on the story of the hundreds of thousands of children who were abandoned, and the women who saved them.…

Michelangelo, Van Gogh, and Picasso have been alluring subjects for filmmakers throughout the history of cinema. Artists of far lesser stature have also inspired filmmakers over the years. Some are…