SAN FRANCISCO,
CA.- The “Art of the
Steal” chronicles the long and dramatic struggle for control of the Barnes
Foundation, a private collection of Post-Impressionist and early Modern art
valued at more than $25 billion. “THE ART OF THE STEAL”, an IFC Film,
runs 101 minutes, is in English, and is not yet rated by the MPAA. In 1922, Dr. Albert C. Barnes created
The Barnes Foundation in Lower Merion Pennsylvania, five miles outside of
Philadelphia with the intention of using his remarkable collection of
Post-Impressionist and early modern art as an educational institution.
Dr. Barnes built his foundation away from the city and the cultural
elite who originally scorned his collection as “horrible, debased art,” and set
it on the grounds of his own home, an arboretum in the leafy suburbs.