"Hadid grew up in Baghdad, Iraq, surrounded by music. She was a curious and confident child who designed her own modernist bedroom at nine years old. As a young woman studying at University in Beirut, she was described as the most outstanding pupil the teacher had ever met. With her ... vision and belief in the power of architecture, she founded her own firm and designed [world-famous] buildings ... including the London 2012 Olympic Aquatic Centre"--Publisher...

After the tsunami in Japan in March 2011, an architects' collective led by Tokyo Ito launched the project "Homes for All", communal buildings for the inhabitants of the devastated towns. Along with Toyo Ito, 3 young architects, Su Fujimoto, Kumiko Inui and Akihisa Hirata, build one of these homes in Rikuzentakata. Using trees from the destroyed forest, they create the image of a house with a pointed roof, pierced by 19 tree trunks. Running around...

1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of art and provides a deeper insight into the masterpieces of painting. This film explores Lucio Fontana’s “Concetto Spaziale,” completed in 1957 and housed in the Art History Museum in Vienna.

1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of art and provides a deeper insight into the masterpieces of painting. This film explores Willi Sitte’s “My Parents in the Agricultural Co-Operative,” completed in 1962 and housed in the New National Gallery in Berlin.

How is our understanding of the natural world deeply cultural? The "Art in the Twenty-First Century" documentary “Ecology” explores thisquestion in the work of the four artists. Ursula von Rydingsvard works with cedar to create large-scale structures echoing her memories of growing up in WWII Polish refugee camps. Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle's technologically sophisticated sculptures and video installations employ natural forms and objects as metaphors...

The "Art in the Twenty-First Century" documentary “Protest” examines the ways in which four artists use their work to picture war, express outrage and empathize with the suffering of others. Politics and the brutality of war underscore many of feminist art pioneer Nancy Spero's paintings. Landscape photographer An-My Lê's black-and-white images examine the impact, representation and meaning of war, as well as the relationship between military...

What happens to art in the internet age? The philosophers, artists, and exhibition makers in this documentary believe that endless reproduction liberates art from a muddled art market and an undemocratic exhibition circuit. A couple of critics wonder whether the urge for physical objects is really just a nostalgic fetishism. But aren't we losing something if the physical artworks disappears?

1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of art and provides a deeper insight into the masterpieces of painting. This film explores Roy Lichtenstein’s “Girl with Hair Ribbon,” completed in 1965 and housed in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.