art critic
An art critic is a person who is specialized in analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating art. Their written critiques or reviews contribute to art criticism and they are published in newspapers, magazines, books, exhibition brochures, and catalogue ...
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historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...
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documentary
A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...
filmmaker
Filmmaking or film production is the process by which a Film, motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, beginning with an initial story, idea, or commission. Production then continues through screen ...
*2019: ''The Last Leonardo: Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting'', a history and investigation of the '' Salvator Mundi'' painting attributed to
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 - 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested o ...
*2008: ''Hammer & Tickle. The Communist Joke Book'', '' Weidenfeld & Nicolson''
**Also published in Germany, Portugal, Poland, Slovenia and Italy
Documentaries
*2017: ''The Beatles, Hippies and Hells Angels: Inside the Crazy World of Apple'' (unauthorized film; narrated by Peter Coyote)
*2013: '' Google and the World Brain''
*2009:''The Great Contemporary Art Bubble'', "explores the current international art market, from its heady peak to its inevitable crash", best feature documentary at the Foyle Film Festival
*2006: '' Hammer & Tickle: The Communist Joke Book'', a documentary about Russian political jokes, best documentary at the Zurich Film Festival
*2005: ''Blowing Up Paradise'', about French nuclear testing in the Pacific, Special Jury Prix at the FIFO (2008)
*Since 2003: ''Art Safari'' series;
**''Art Safari-1'': films on Maurizio Cattelan, Gregor Schneider, Matthew Barney, and relational art (theories of the French
curator
A curator (from , meaning 'to take care') is a manager or overseer. When working with cultural organizations, a curator is typically a "collections curator" or an "exhibitions curator", and has multifaceted tasks dependent on the particular ins ...
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a States of Germany, state () in Old states of Germany, Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the List of German states by population, most ...