Review of The Art of the Steal (2010) by David Edelstein for New York Magazine/Vulture — 01 Mar 2010
Calculated to enrage and pulling it off like gangbusters, Don Argott’s documentary The Art of the Steal pits the legacy of the late Albert C. Barnes’s Barnes Foundation (which boasts arguably the world’s finest collection of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art) against the social-climbing, philistine, downright Nixonian machinations of Philadelphia’s wealthiest--who gamed the system and pried the collection loose in defiance of Barnes’s legal will.
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This review of The Art of the Steal (2010) was written by David Edelstein and published by New York Magazine/Vulture on 01 Mar 2010.
The Art of the Steal has generally received very positive reviews.
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