by Jon Lackman | 26 May 2010 | Film
At Artnet, David D’Arcy reviews the recent International Festival of Films on Art in Montreal:
The fest featured no less than six films on Picasso, including Arne Glimcher’s unlikely Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies [which argues] that Cubism was inspired by early movies … Views on Vermeer – 12 Short Stories … weighs Johannes Vermeer’s influence on contemporary artists, writers and others … The “Vermeer effect,” it turns out, is rather widespread today … Oeke Hoogendij’s The New Rijksmuseum provides an inside look at what apparently was a dispute-plagued renovation of Holland’s venerable art repository. Who would have thought that the sensible Dutch, in their effort to make the famous museum “more than a labyrinth” would produce a Tower of Babel, as the museum’s director asks before he quits in frustration.
More on Glimcher’s movie from The Wall Street Journal.