With the five-part Cremaster Cycle of films, multi-award-winning artist Matthew Barney invented a densely layered and interconnected sculptural world that surreally combines sports, biology, sexuality, history, and mythology as it organically evolves. In this program, Barney, Guggenheim curator Nancy Spector, and others deconstruct the Cycle's filming and subsequent translation into sculptural installations.

To study the Sunflowers sequence is to chart van Gogh's meteoric rise from apprentice to master and subsequent ruin. In telling the incredible story of how these 11 paintings came to be, this program follows the doomed trajectory of the relationship between van Gogh and his would-be mentor, Paul Gauguin.

Presenting nearly 100 pieces from the Charles Saatchi collection in London, this program transcends the standard video catalog format by incorporating interviews with several artists, all of whom candidly share their goals and processes. Gary Hume, Damien Hirst, Jake and Dino Chapman, Tracy Emin, and Sarah Lucas.

Where are the works of the great women artists? Why are there so few represented in museums? In this provocative program, respected artists such as Doris McCarthy, Judy Chicago, Joyce Weiland, and Jane Ash Poitras--in combination with curators, art historians, and The Guerrilla Girls, the "terrorists" of the art world--discuss the dearth of women's artwork in major galleries and examine the poignant social history of women in the fine arts--a story of suppression, marginalization, and omission.

Examines the history of photography

Although rendered in stone, the sculptures of Gian Lorenzo Bernini convey a sense of weightlessness perhaps unequalled in the history of Western art. This program illustrates Bernini's nearly miraculous ability to turn marble into a vessel of rapture, both spiritual and sexual.

Enigmatic and remote, yet very much present and perhaps all too real: that is the Little Dancer Aged 14, by Degas.

In 1907, the intimidating women in Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon—also known as The Brothel—were a jarring contrast to all prior Western traditions of depicting the female nude. This program offers an in-depth analysis of an iconoclastic painting born from the rivalry between Picasso and Matisse for leadership of the avant-garde.