Episode list

In this installment, we'll tell you about Julie Speed, an American artist who makes sophisticated visual puzzles that express both cynicism and humor.

Deborah Kass is an American artist whose work explores the intersection of pop culture, art history and identity.

Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick, both born in 1964, are a collaborative team of artists working primarily in the areas of photography and installation. They specialize in fictional histories of the past and future.

Sister Gertrude Morgan was a self-taught African American artist, musician, poet and preacher.

Follows artist Julian Schnabel as he gets personally involved in hanging a 30 year retrospective show in Italy. He introduces us to his crew, a daughter he's painted on several occasions, explains how he met and pursued his wife, visits a museum to marvel at the work of Caravaggio, discusses the laughter of the Spanish, the protocol of signing his own work, the inspiration of his dreams as a young man and those of a daughter, how he began using crockery in his art, what ambition drives the evolution to a new style, and how making films didn't fit with the image of a painter; all while art scholars weigh in on the importance of his oeuvre.

David Lawrence Levinthal is a photographer who lives and works in New York City. He uses small toys and props with dramatic lighting to create miniature environments and reproduce legendary moments in baseball history.

Thomas Woodruff is a self-proclaimed "neo-fabulist" artist who always works in series on large and complex imaginary projects.

Gregory Crewdson is an American photographer. Today, he lives and works in New York where he has a studio.

Sam Maloof was a furniture designer and woodworker, the first craftsman to receive a MacArthur fellowship.

Tim Noble and Sue Webster are two artists from England who make sculptures out of various salvaged objects such as wood, soda cans, scrap metal, cigarette packs and stuffed animals.

Donald K. Sultan is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker, particularly well known for his large-scale still life paintings and use of industrial materials such as tar, enamel, spackle and vinyl tile.

Tom Otterness, born in 1952 in Wichita, Kansas, is a sculptor whose works adorn many public spaces in the United States.

Julian Schnabel is an American painter and filmmaker. In the 1980s, Schnabel received international media attention for his "plate paintings", with broken ceramic plates set onto large-scale paintings.

If he does not belong to the generation saw the birth of this medium, he belongs on the other hand to the one that renewed its use by freeing itself from the limits of the frontality of television screens.

Eric Fischl is an American painter, sculptor, printmaker, draughtsman and educator.

Vanessa Beecroft is an Italian-born American contemporary performance artist. She also works with photography, video art, sculpture, and painting.

Fred Tomaselli is an American artist. He is best known for his highly detailed paintings on wood panels, combining an array of unorthodox materials suspended in a thick layer of clear, epoxy resin.

Urs Fischer is a Swiss multi-media artist with a well-established reputation. Marginal, provocative.

Damian Elwes is a British artist with studios in Los Angeles and the Colombian rainforest.

John Anthony Baldessari was an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images.

Andres Serrano is an American photographer and artist who has become famous through his photos of corpses and his use of feces and bodily fluids in his work.

Lorna Simpson is an American photographer and multimedia artist. She came to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s with artworks such as Guarded Conditions and Square Deal.

Robert Wilson is an American experimental theater stage director and playwright who has been described by The New York Times as "[America]'s - or even the world's - foremost vanguard 'theater artist.

Conrad Hartley Pelham Shawcross RA is a British artist specializing in mechanical sculptures based on philosophical and scientific ideas.

Anthony Caro was a British abstract sculptor whose work was characterized from 1963 by the assembly of metal elements painted in bright colors.

We follow the creation of Anish Kappor's work "Svayambh," a huge block that moves through galleries where Hitler oversaw Nazi art exhibitions.

David Lynch is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, photographer, musician and painter born in 1946 in Missoula.