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Features the video works of Intildeigo Manglano-Ovalle on architecture which are presented at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts in April 2002.

Provides information on the American Indian art exhibition at the Indian Market in Santa Fe, New Mexico organized by the Southwest Association of Indian Artists.

Focuses on American Indian artists who are blaming the buckskin ceiling for keeping them out of major museum and gallery shows as well as out of positions of power in the art establishment. Remarks from Suzan Shown Harjo, president of Morning Star Institute; Division of Indian artists and curators over real Indian art; Reasons for the adoption of the white man's image by American Indians.

Evaluates the painting `The Raising of Lazarus,' by Jacopo Robusti Tintoretto. Features of the artwork; Doubts about the painting's authenticity.

Presents information on the art exhibit `Fragmented Devotion: Medieval Objects From the Schnutgen Museum in Cologne,' opened at the McMullen Museum in February 2000. Characterization of the sculpture `The Wild Man'; Objective of the exhibition; Historical categories recomposed for the exhibits; Views of Virginia Reinburg, a professor of European religious history at Boston College and one of the exhibit's curators.

Focuses on artist May Stevens, the subject of the show `May Stevens: Images of Women Near and Far,' at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in New York City, New York. How her works have been focused on social and political causes; Her education and marriage; Information on the works included in the exhibit.

Talks about the architectural restoration of ceilings of the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi in Italy which was damaged during an earthquake on September 26, 1997. Details on the earthquake; Some saints painted by Giotto that were damaged by the earthquake; Contingency plan made by Giuseppe Basile, an inspector at the state Central Restoration Institute in Rome, for the basilica.

Discusses Caravaggio's `Taking of Christ,' which will be the centerpiece of the exhibition `Saints and Sinners: Caravaggio and the Baroque Image,' a show of 17th-century Italian religious art at the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College, Massachusetts. Description of the painting; Historical significance of the painting; Information about the show's Baroque Image theme.

Presents information on the art exhibition `New World From Old,' a show of 19th century Australian and American landscapes at the Wadsworth Atheneum, New York City through January 3, 1999. Description of the exhibits of artists Augustus Earle, Frederick Remington and Tom Roberts; Features of the exhibit; Information on the two countries.

Features the Deutsche Film AG (DEFA) archive established by the University of Massachusetts. Statistics on the films produced by DEFA between the years 1946 and 1990; Information on the DEFA archive; Reason for the archive establishment.

Focuses on artist Fitz Hugh Lane with emphasis on his painting `Boston Harbor at Sunset.' Comments from Judith McCulloch, director of the Cape Ann Historical Museum in Massachusetts; Details on other paintings by Lane; Detailed information on the painting; Information Lane's artistic career.

Profiles the difficulty of the work undertaken by Pinin Brambilla Barcilon, a Milan art restorer, working for the Santa Maria delle Grazie convent in Milan and is trying to salvage Leonardo da Vinci's deteriorated painting `The Last Supper.' Details of the mural and the damage suffered by it.

Presents information on the projection of the stories of Terry Titcomb and Sandy King, whose sons were murdered between 1986 and 1994 in Charlestown, Massachusetts onto the Bunker Hill Monument, Charlestown, by artist Krzysztof Wodiczko. Background information on Wodiczko; Educational background of Wodiczko; Comments from Barbara Steinman, an artist from Montreal.

Focuses on paintings by Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma Moses) which were donated to the Bennington Museum in Virginia. When Grandma Moses befriended Anne Garner and Margaret Carr, two sisters from Rose Valley, Pennsylvania; When Grandma Moses died; Reference to the painting `Vermont.'

Presents information on artist John Biggers's 1942 oil-on-board composition `Crossing the Bridge.' Comments from Biggers; Viewing of the exhibition `The Art of John Biggers: View From the Upper Room' at the Hampton University Museum in Hampton, Virginia; Background information on Biggers.

Reports that the safety of artwork in Florence, Italy is threatened when the Arno River floods. Information on the damage done to Cimabue's painting entitled `Crucifixion' by the Arno River in 1966; Steps taken to avoid damage to the painting by another flood of the river; Details on the Arno River and the flood of 1966.