Great doc on how a 1of a kind art foundation had its edict and purpose destroyed
The Barnes Foundation was one of the largest art collections in the world. This documentary is about what happened to the Foundation after Albert Barnes died and all the political battles over what to do with it.<br /><br />It starts off by championing Barnes’ taste and vision. He was buying artists like Matisse and Picasso before they were recognized as masters. He was also an iconoclast amongst the rich. He wanted to use his collection to educate people and looked down upon the other aristocrats saying they were elitists who only used the arts to claim they were sophisticated.<br /><br />The political aspect occurred when Barnes died in 1951 and all these different individuals and institutions went after the Barnes Foundation to take control of the collection. It’s a crazy story because Barnes wanted to maintain his art just as he created it and all these people were like vultures wanting to take his paintings because of the status and the money they could make off of it. One of the great twists in the story was that the collection ended up under the stewardship of Lincoln University a historical black college. Of course the title of the film gives you a hint of what eventually happened to the collection.<br />C
The movie title "Art of the Steal," available on Prime Video, has received an average rating of 4.5 from 343 reviewers. 
It features elements such as IMDb 7.5, 1 h 41 min, 2009 and R, and it is priced at $12.49.

This title falls under the categories of Documentary, Cerebral and Compelling. 
The additional details include the following in key-value format :
 {"Audio languages": ["English"], "Subtitles": ["English [CC]"], "Directors": ["Don Argott"], "Producers": ["Sheena Joyce"], "Starring": ["John Anderson", "Colin B. Bailey", "Julian Bond"]}

Here is a brief synopsis of the title : A thrilling whodunit about the heist of the century and the fate of the world's most valuable modern art collection..