Produced by De Appel, Amsterdam, while General Idea was in residence there, Test Tube was conceived as a program for television. Presented under the brand "The Color Bar Lounge," a cocktail bar in the mythical 1984 Miss General Idea Pavilion, the program is a hybrid of popular television formats […] and infomercial. […] Advertisements for the bar are placed throughout the program; a loaded word choice, full of double-entendres and innuendo, betrays the influence of both Dadaism and consumerism. This collapse of popular and high culture is central to General Idea's agenda, as Felix Partz observes: "You know, the mass media are like a vast pharmaceutical complex developing new cultural elixirs of an unprecedented intoxication…but art remains a curious and elitist drink. Despite its unique flavor and heady cultural properties, it has never effectively been exploited."
Leonora Carrington: The Lost Surrealist
2017
7.4/10
Hinter dem Vorhang: Das Geheimnis Vermeer
2021
8/10
The Arc de Triomphe: A Nation's Passion
2021
8/10
Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
2017
8/10
Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
1983
6.5/10
The Voyages of Matisse, Chasing Light
2020
8/10
Secrets of the Mona Lisa
2015
6.667/10
A Tour of the Louvre
2021
8/10
Ships in the Night: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery
2021
7.3/10
Behind the Artist: Andy Warhol, an American Prophet
2015
0/10
The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney
2004
0/10
The So-Called Caryatids
1984
6.2/10
Der Maler Philip Guston – Ein amerikanisches Leben
2023
8/10
Now You See It, Now You Don't
1968
0/10
Recapturing Cuba: An Artist's Journey
2007
0/10
Pop Goes the Easel
1962
5.5/10
Graffiti Wars
2011
6/10
Billy Connolly: Portrait of a Lifetime
2017
6/10
James Tissot: L'étoffe d'un peintre
2020
0/10
Bombin'
1987
7.7/10
