The Best Pop & Contemporary Art Documentaries

Art, Music & Design - 21 free documentaries about pop & contemporary art.

Start with Jean-Michel Basquiat': Great Art Explained (17 min, Great Art Explained), then The $150,000 Banana (13 min, The Art Assignment). All 21 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on pop & contemporary art is What Are You Looking At? by Will Gompertz.

• Jean-Michel Basquiat': Great Art Explained (17 min, Great Art Explained)
• The $150,000 Banana (13 min, The Art Assignment)
• Art You Can't Get To (8 min, The Art Assignment)
• The Case for Conceptual Art (11 min, The Art Assignment)
• Eat Like Andy Warhol (18 min, The Art Assignment)
• Francis Bacon: Great Art Explained: Study after Velázquez (28 min, Great Art Explained)
• Yayoi Kusama: Great art Explained (17 min, Great Art Explained)
• Jackson Pollock Part Two: Fame, Death, and the CIA (18 min, Great Art Explained)
• Jackson Pollock Part One: The Myth of the Modern Artist (26 min, Great Art Explained)
• Mark Rothko's Seagram Murals: Great Art Explained (15 min, Great Art Explained)
• Andy Warhol's Marilyn: Great Art Explained (15 min, Great Art Explained)
• How Climate Changes Art (17 min, The Art Assignment)
• Art Trip: Venice Biennale | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios (21 min, The Art Assignment)
• The Case for Jackson Pollock | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios (11 min, The Art Assignment)
• Art Trip: London | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios (14 min, The Art Assignment)
• Art Trip: Chicago | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios (9 min, The Art Assignment)
• Art Trip: Washington D.C. | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios (12 min, The Art Assignment)
• Public Art Trip: New York City | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios (8 min, The Art Assignment)
• Fix an object you feel bad for. | Diana Shpungin (8 min, The Art Assignment)
• Bring a sound to life. | Jamal Cyrus (10 min, The Art Assignment)
• Chris Ofili: Weaving Magic | Curator's Introduction | National Gallery (39 min, The National Gallery)

Top-Rated Books About Pop & Contemporary Art

1. What Are You Looking At? by Will Gompertz - View on Amazon
2. Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton - View on Amazon
3. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol by Andy Warhol - View on Amazon
4. Rothko by Christopher Rothko - View on Amazon