Monday-Friday, February 1-5, 7 pm
Wednesday, February 3, 4 pm
**Additional screenings have been added**
Thursday, February 4th, 4 pm
Friday, February 5th, 4 pm
The Ruth & Bucky Stein Theatre
Lisa Immordino Vreeland offers a portrait of a patron of the arts extraordinaire who transformed a modest fortune and impeccable taste into one of the premiere collections of twentieth century art. Peggy Guggenheim was an heiress to her family fortune who became a central figure in the modern art movement. As she moved through the cultural upheaval of the 20th century, she collected not only art, but also artists. Her colorful personal history included such figures as Samuel Beckett, Max Ernst, Jackson Pollock, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp as well as countless others. While fighting through personal tragedy, she maintained her vision to build one of the most important collections of modern art, now enshrined in her Venetian palazzo. (Unrated, 1 hour 37 minutes)
“By her own legendary admission, Guggenheim had thousands of lovers and pursued art and sex in equal measure; this documentary goes a way to rebalancing that the addiction of the title actually took precedence.” Natalie Atkinson, Globe and Mail
“This ambitious film touches on so many lives and controversies that it gradually becomes a minihistory of 20th-century art.” John Hartl, Seattle Times