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Movies at the Museum: Bettina

Phoenix Art Museum

September 16, 2008

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When Sam Basset met Bettina Grossman at the Chelsea Hotel, the 'enlightened, but paralyzed' artist, collector and recluse was 'suffocating in her own greatness.' 'I saw right away how brilliant she was, even though she had basically retracted into solitude for 30 years.' So Bassett set about organizing her vast body of work and made a documentary about her. In the process, he helped her emerge from the depths of isolation, while she mentored him and helped elevate his work. The film profiles the cross-generational relationship between an old-guard, artistic recluse with a roller-coaster life, and her fair-haired knight, a lacrosse star from New Jersey. Bassett shows Grossman, once called 'the most beautiful woman to ever live', slowly emerging from decades of depression and isolation. 'Inside those boxes,' says Bassett, 'was her family, her children, her husband, her grandchildren, even her beauty.' That the lives of these two artists would intersect in the Chelsea Hotel is testament to the quirky character of the Manhattan residence which celebrates its 125th anniversary this year.

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  September 16, 2008

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  Tuesday 7:00pm

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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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