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Movies at the Museum: The Moderns

Phoenix Art Museum

August 19, 2008

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Director Alan Rudolph stylishly evokes the legendary milieu of 1902's Paris café society and 'the lost generation' of American artists and writers who lived there. While Hemmingway, Fitzgerald and Stein move in and out of scenes, the story centers around fictional Nick Hart (Keith Carradine), a struggling painter who spends his time drinking and socializing in the local cafes, and pestering gallery owner Libby Valentin (Genevive Bujold) to sell his paintings. He becomes entangled with a darkly mysterious woman named Rachel Stone (Linda Fiorentino) and her corrupt husband Bertram Stone (John Lone). Mr. Stone is supposedly an art collector who knows all of the most important of people and reduces those he cares little for to pulp. Danger threatens and fortune looms as Hart colludes in a plot by wealthy art patroness Nathalie de Ville (Geraldine Chaplin) to forge three now-famous paintings. One is left wondering whose paintings are really hanging in NY MOMA.

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  Tickets: Free Admission

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  August 19, 2008

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  Tuesday 6:30pm

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  Phoenix Art Museum

  1625 North Central Avenue Phoenix, AZ 85004

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  • Event Name: Human Nature: The Photographs of Barbara Bosworth
    "Great art exhibit!"
    Review posted by: Stephanie from Phx., Az., U.S.A. , Jun 08, 2008
    

    Beautiful photography in black and white and in color. I especially love the bird series, the trees and the meadow series that she created.

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    Beautiful photography in black and white and in color. I especially love the bird series, the trees and the meadow series that she created.

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  • Event Name: Illuminated Manuscripts
    "Breath-taking and illuminating"
    Review posted by: Ken Gallatin from Phoenix AZ, Jan 09, 2008
    

    I merely went to see the old scrolls and fragments, but I got so much more. The St. John's Bible blew me away. No photo does it justice. Stunning. Beautiful in its own right, it surprised me in an art... Expand

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    I merely went to see the old scrolls and fragments, but I got so much more. The St. John's Bible blew me away. No photo does it justice. Stunning. Beautiful in its own right, it surprised me in an art form we see so little. What a great find! Don't miss it. The old manuscripts convey the depth and history of many cultures that have carried art and scripture next to our ancestors' bosoms so that they could pass down these torches of civilization to us. I was in awe; when it was time to go, I couldn't. I turned around and went through the exhibit again. Don't miss the Syriac Peshitta and Coptic manuscripts nor the steps involved in getting European versions to the printing press. Beyond the thrill of the artwork and the profundity of this exhibition's message, I walked away, eventually, with a sense of the piety from a couple millennia. Many thanks to Phoenix Art Museum and the collectors who lent us this view extending from ancient Mesopotamia to the dazzle of post-modern illumination. Collapse

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