Ben Lewis (born 1966) is a British art critic, historian and documentary filmmaker."Ben Lewis", an autobiography
Books 2019: The Last Leonardo: Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting, a history and investigation of the Salvator Mundi painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci 2008: Hammer & Tickle. The Communist Joke Book, Weidenfeld & Nicolson Also published in Germany, Portugal, Poland, Slovenia and Italy
Documentaries 2017: The Beatles, Hippies and Hells Angels: Inside the Crazy World of Apple (unauthorized film; narrated by Peter Coyote) 2013: Google and the World Brain 2009:The Great Contemporary Art Bubble, "explores the current international art market, from its heady peak to its inevitable crash","Foyle Film Festival 2009" best feature documentary at the Foyle Film Festival 2006: Hammer & Tickle: The Communist Joke Book, a documentary about Russian political jokes, best documentary at the Zurich Film Festival"ZURICH FILM FESTIVAL ARCHIVE PROGRAMME 2006 AWARD WINNERS" 2005: Blowing Up Paradise, about French nuclear testing in the Pacific, Special Jury Prix at the FIFO (2008)"LE PALMARES DU FIFO 2008" Since 2003: Art Safari series; Art Safari-1: films on Maurizio Cattelan, Gregor Schneider, Matthew Barney, and relational art (theories of the French curator and art citic Nicolas Bourriaud) Art Safari-2: Wim Delvoye, Sophie Calle, Takashi Murakami, and Santiago Sierra Bronze prize at the New York Television Festival (2007), North Rhine-Westphalia Special Prize for Culture ( NRW Sonderpreis Kultur) at the Adolf-Grimme-Preis (2007) Grimme-Preis 2007 Ben Lewis"Grimme-Preis 2007 Art Safari (ZDF/ARTE)" 2001: The King of Communism: the pomp and pageantry Nicolae Ceausescu, Best Historical Documentary award from Grierson Awards (2002) 1999: The Lost Race; history of the National Front and its splinter groups
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