NATIONAL GALLERY JAN 16 - 22 directed by Frederick Wiseman, Documentary, Not Rated, USA, English, 2014, 180 min.
Lake Worth Playhouse Stonzek Theatre Lake Worth, FL
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NATIONAL GALLERY JAN 16 - 22 directed by Frederick Wiseman, Documentary, Not Rated, USA, English, 2014, 180 min.
Two national treasures, the US's doumentarian Fredrick Wiseman and the UK's National Gallery, join to deliver a brilliant, stimulating glimpse into the art world.
London's National Gallery, one of the world's foremost art institutions, is itself portrayed as a brilliant work of art in this, Frederick Wiseman's 39th documentary and counting. Wiseman listens raptly as a panoply of docents decode the great canvases of Da Vinci, Rembrandt, and Turner; he visits with the museum's restorers as they use magnifying glasses, tiny eye-droppers, scalpels, and Q-tips to repair an infinitesimal chip; he attends administrative meetings in which senior executives do (polite) battle with younger ones who want the museum to become less stodgy and more welcoming to a larger cross-section of the public. But most of all, we experience the joy of spending time with the aforementioned masters as well as Vermeer and Caravaggio, Titian and Velázquez, Pissarro and Rubens, and listen to the connoisseurs who discourse upon the aesthetic, historical, religious and psychological underpinnings of these masterpieces.
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Lake Worth Playhouse Stonzek Theatre (View)
713 Lake Ave.
Lake Worth, FL 33460
United States
