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This two-part documentary looks at how our brain works and how our cognitive biases influence our perception of the world as well as our behaviour.

From cowrie shells to the first banknotes and digital currencies, this documentary series takes a critical look at how money shapes societies and determines our lives.

ARTE Reportage covers international stories about people whose lives have been affected by political events, social change, the climate crisis or conflict.

The myth of Monaco: from a remote fishing village to one of the richest countries in the world.

Love in the time of Tinder can be brutal, but also bizarre. Short stories that show the landscape of 21st century dating.

How did Iran become the sworn enemy of Israel and the United States, despite being allies of Iran’s Shah in the 1970s? A look at shifting geopolitics and war in a troubled region.

From zero to millionaire: how social media is reshaping the myth of entrepreneurial wealth...

A dive into the digital wild west of the art world where a pixelated punks created a financial bubble worth billions. 

An immersion into the underground techno scenes of Beijing and Taipei with three notable artists.

An early pioneer of abstract art, many of her mystical paintings were only discovered decades after her death.

In the Spanish village of Pescueza, a cooperative is working to ensure that senior citizens can access the help they need.

From The Birth of Venus to sensual shampoo ads, it seems as if everyone has always been excited by the image of a wet woman... How weird is that?

Goya died old, deaf and somewhat forgotten, but he was a pioneering artist of his time and a precursor to the artistic revolution of the 19t century.

Martyr usually meet grisly ends and Saint Agatha is no exception: According to legend her breasts were cut off with pliers as a torture.

Does Jacques Louis David’s painting of the Spartans contain a hint of homoeroticism?

In 2010, the Louvre Museum launched an appeal for donations to raise 1 million euros to buy a work by Cranach, which had previously been locked away in a private collection. The poor thing... Fortunately, many people responded to the appeal, so everything went well for her. Lucky her!

Did you know that the word digital comes from the Latin "digitalis" which means "the size of a finger"? We use it to talk about the digital world, because in the old days we used to count with our fingers! But what has this got to do with Leonardo da Vinci’s St John the Baptist?

The painter Artemisia Gentileschi was rediscovered in the 1970s by pioneers of gender studies in art. A simple question arose: why are so few great masters women?

Christian philosophy is based on two abstract and complex concepts, but art can simplify them: Paradise, where everything was good and is lost, and Hell, which is so scary that no one wants to go there. And in between there is…us!

With all the religious wars, the 17th century was a tense time in Europe. And in art one theme caught everyone’s imagination: the Virgin Mary.