The Rehoboth Beach Film Society, in association with Gallery 50, will present a screening of the documentary The Art of the Steal, a film by Don Argott.
The screening will take place 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 8, at the Milton Theater in Milton, Delaware. Doors will open at 7 p.m. Cost for the tickets are $7.
The Art of the Steal is a documentary that chronicles the long and dramatic struggle for control of the Barnes Foundation, the world's largest private collection of post-impressionist and modern art. Albert C. Barnes amassed an art collection now valued to be worth over $25 billion, which is currently housed in an elegant Beaux-Arts mansion in Lower Merion Township, just outside Philadelphia.
Barnes established the Foundation with a mandate to use the collection for art education, not commercial display. In addition, the artworks could not be lent, sold or moved. The Art of the Steal follows the Foundation's history, Barnes' contentious relationship with the city's establishment, the struggle for control of the Barnes Foundation, and what has become of the collection after Barnes' passing in 1951.
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