THE ART OF THE STEAL Documentaries
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Country: USA
Year: 2009
Director: Don Argott
Producer: Sheena M Joyce
Director of Photography: Don Argott
Editor: Demian Fenton
Running Time (minutes): 101 min
What is art’s relationship to the public at large, and who decides who gets to see it? Rarely has the beauty of brotherly love seemed so rancorous as in Don Argott s fascinating, thoroughly researched documentary on the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania. The Foundation, established by Dr. Albert Barnes in 1922, boosts one of the world s largest collections of Impressionist, Post-lmpressionist and early Modern paintings-works that Barnes wished to make accessible to serious students and everyday people. But since his death in 195 l, lawyers, elected officials . and businesspeople hove sought to exploit the Foundation, ignoring the express wishes of Barnes never to turn his collection into on enormous tourist attraction and never to move it to Philadelphia, a city he despised THE ART OF THE STEAL is filled with intrigue, conflicting reports, enormous egos and provocative questions about money, culture and art.
Country: USA
Year: 2009
Director: Don Argott
Producer: Sheena M Joyce
Director of Photography: Don Argott
Editor: Demian Fenton
Running Time (minutes): 101 min
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