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    The Art of the Steal

    The Art of the Steal

    Presented by Belcourt Theatre at Belcourt Theatre

    March 26-April 6, 2010

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    In 1922, Dr. Albert C. Barnes created The Barnes Foundation at his home, an arboretum in Lower Merion Pennsylvania, five miles away from the purposefully-snubbed elitists in downtown Philadelphia. This remarkable collection of post-impressionist and early modernist art is staggering in quantity: 181 paintings by Renoir, 69 by Cézanne, 59 by Matisse and 46 by Picasso, including many masterpieces. He designed his will in order to make the collection safe from commercial exploitation and, upon his death in 1951, left the collection to a small African-American college. More than fifty years later, a powerful group of moneyed interests have gone to court to take the art - recently valued at more than $25 billion - and bring it to a new museum in Philadelphia much to the consternation and mobilization of the locals and students.

    The Art of the Steal plays like a thrilling whodunit: a story of twist, turns and double-crosses that the the filmmaker deftly adopts an investigative approach to unravel the complicated politics and personalities that determined the fate of the Barnes collection. Drawing upon research from John Anderson's book Art Held Hostage, multiple questions are raised: How is art best served? Should it be reserved for true connoisseurs or made available to the most eyeballs possible? And who decides?

    Dir. Don Argott, USA, 2010, 101min, 35mm


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        Belcourt Theatre

        2102 Belcourt Avenue
        Nashville, TN 37212

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        $8.75/Adult
        $7.25/Adult Matinee, Children (under 11), Students, Military
        $6.75/Student and Military Matinee
        $6.25/Seniors (65 and up)
        $5.75/Belcourt Member

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        March 26-April 6, 2010

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