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Art & Museum Exhibits

4pm-9:30pm

Fri, June 18 @ 7 & 9:30pm
Sat, June 19 @ 4, 7 & 9:30pm
Sun, June 20 @ 4 & 7pm
Mon, June 21 @ 7 & 9:30pm

Cost: $8*, $6* Students and Seniors

Directed by Don Argott
Official Selection - Toronto International Film Festival 2009, New York Film Festival 2009, AFI Film Festival 2009

An un-missable look at one of the art world’s most fascinating controversies and a celebrated selection of the Toronto, New York and AFI Film Festivals, Don Argott’s gripping documentary THE ART OF THE STEAL chronicles the long and dramatic struggle for control of the Barnes Foundation, a private collection of art valued at more than $25 billion.
In 1922, Dr. Albert C. Barnes formed a remarkable educational institution around his priceless collection of art, located just five miles outside of Philadelphia. Now, more than 50 years after Barnes’ death, a powerful group of moneyed interests have gone to court for control of the art, and intend to bring it to a new museum in Philadelphia. Standing in their way is a group of Barnes’ former students and his will, which contains strict instructions stating the Foundation should always be an educational institution, and that the paintings may never be removed. Will they succeed, or will a man’s will be broken and one of America’s greatest cultural monuments be destroyed?

Country of Origin: US
Language: English

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COST:

$6, $8

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: The State Theatre
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