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The Art of the Steal is a 2009 documentary film directed by Don Argott, about the controversial move of the Barnes Foundation, generally considered to be the world's best collection of post-Impressionist art and valued in 2009 to be worth at least $25 billion, from Merion, Pennsylvania to Philadelphia.
Feb 19, 2010 · By Constance Rosenblum. Feb. 19, 2010. DON ARGOTT was never one of those Philadelphians besotted with the Barnes Foundation, the museum of late-19th- and early-20th-century art tucked away in...
“The Art of the Steal: The Untold Story of the Barnes Foundation” is a riveting — and tragic — documentary film chronicling the gratuitous ruin of a school outside Philadelphia that houses an incomparable art collection. It's a classic story of destroying the village in order to save it.
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Jun 8, 2010 · The Art of the Steal, directed by Don Argott, centers on the controversial relocation of early-20th-century pharmaceutical magnate Alfred C. Barnes' private collection of...
Feb 25, 2010 · The new documentary explores the controversial plan to move the Barnes Foundation's $25 billion collection of modernist and post-impressionist art from its longtime home in the Philadelphia...
Feb 25, 2010 · 1h 41m. By Manohla Dargis. Feb. 25, 2010. Money, power, race, a mansion stuffed with treasure, a city plagued by scandal about all that’s missing from “The Art of the Steal,” a...
Sep 29, 2009 · The Art of the Steal: Directed by Don Argott. With Julian Bond, David D'Arcy, Richard Feigen, Richard H. Glanton. Documentary that follows the struggle for control of Dr. Albert C. Barnes' 25 billion dollar collection of modern and post-impressionist art.
