Verge Gallery presents!
An opening night screening of The Art of the Steal hosted by Sacramento's glorious Crest Theatre!
Friday April 16, 7:30pm -- All seats $15
A portion of every opening night ticket sold will benefit the development of our new location at 625 S Street.
Purchase at the door, or online here:
http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?agency=TDC&pid=6735164
The Crest Theatre
1013 K Street
916.44C.REST
Following the film Verge will host a panel discussion featuring:
Robin Bernhard
Collections Manager
Richard L. Nelson Gallery
UC Davis
Dr. James Housefield
Assistant Professor
History, Theory & Criticism of Design
UC Davis
Dr. Elaine O'Brien
Professor
Contemporary Art & Art History
CSU Sacramento
Dr. William Otton
Retired Director
South Texas Museum of Art, Corpus Christi
So tell a colleague, tell a friend, tell everybody and we'll see you there!!!!
For more on the film.....
Born into a working class family in Philadelphia, Albert C. Barnes was a man who through hard work and determination became a doctor and medical researcher, founding a successful pharmaceutical firm that made him a multi-millionaire. As his fortune grew, Barnes developed a taste for art and in time assembled one of the world's most remarkable private collections, featuring original paintings by Van Gogh, Renoir, Picasso, Cezanne and many other important artists. Barnes relied on his own instincts rather than the advice of experts when he bought paintings, and he had little use for the pretentious attitudes of Philadelphia's art collectors and high society; the animosity between Barnes and the city's art establishment grew to the point that in 1922 he opened the Barnes Foundation, a private gallery where he kept his collection rather than share it with institutions such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
The Barnes Foundation was open by invitation only, and the doctor preferred to have his collection seen by students and serious art lovers than those he felt didn't appreciate the work. Barnes died in 1951, and made strict provisions in his will that his collection was not to be sold, lent to other museums, or removed from the grounds of the Barnes Foundation. Lincoln University, a traditionally African-American college, was appointed to oversee the Foundation's collection. But after the death of Barnes' protégé Violette de Mazia in 1988, Lincoln University's trustees took full control of the collection, now estimated to be worth $25 billion, and a number of individuals and organizations took advantage of their relative inexperience in the world of art to take control of the Barnes archive. The Art Of The Steal is a documentary by Don Argott that explores how greed, political power and good intentions colluded to violate Albert C. Barnes' wishes and scatter his collection across the globe.
The Art Of The Steal was an official selection at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival. - Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
2009 Color 1 hour 41 minutes Not Rated
