Mary Boone

L'oeuvre du peintre Jean-Michel Basquiat, mort d’une overdose en 1988 à seulement 27 ans, bat aujourd’hui des records dans les salles de vente. Retour sur le parcours atypique d'un gosse de Brooklyn devenu superstar.

Featuring collectors, dealers, auctioneers and a rich range of artists, including market darlings George Condo, Jeff Koons, Gerhard Richter and Njideka Akunyili Crosby, this documentary examines the role of art and artistic passion in today’s money-driven, consumer-based society.

Guerrillas In Our Midst takes a look behind the scenes of New York's blue chip art market, and reveals how a contemporary art movement is "created." The anonymous art activists, the Guerrilla Girls, provide a witty foil to SoHo's business-as-usual, protesting the underrepresentation of women and non-white artists with satirical posters and their trademark gorilla masks.

Un directeur de musée de Cincinnati est jugé en 1990 pour avoir exposé des photographies sadomasochistes prises par Robert Mapplethorpe.