Various Los Angeles theaters
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Albert C. Barnes in the Barnes Foundation
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Mar 12, 2010 – Mar 18, 2010
Daily
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Various prices
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“A compelling polemic by Philly-based Don Argott, The Art of the Steal looks at the bitter, decades-long fight over the Barnes Foundation and its $25-billion-dollar art collection. Created in 1922 by Albert C. Barnes, an early 20th-century industrialist and voracious art collector, the Barnes Foundation made its Merion, Pennsylvania home a mecca for aesthetes, with eyefuls of brand-name paintings and only-here ephemera. Barnes passed away in 1951, but his will declared that the works never be loaned, moved, or sold, until a few powerful figures in Philly saw the dollar signs in the impressionistic swirls. Argott employs gabbing partisans, graphics, and archival footage to present a case that continues to open fault lines in the art world.
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Jason Jude Chan, Flavorpill
