Screened as part of NZIFF 2015

Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict 2015

Directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland Portrait of an Artist

Present-day art world stars pay tribute in a lavishly illustrated profile of the arts patron extraordinaire who transformed a modest fortune and adventurous taste into one of the premier collections of 20th-century art.

Jul 18
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Academy Cinemas

Jul 20
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Jul 24
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Event Cinemas Queen Street

Jul 28
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Rialto Cinemas Newmarket

Aug 01
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Rialto Cinemas Newmarket

Aug 03
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Academy Cinemas

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Aug 04

Academy Cinemas

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Academy Cinemas

USA In English
96 minutes DCP

Producers

Stanley Buchthal
,
David Koh
,
Dan Braun

Photography

Peter Trilling

Editors

Bernadine Colish
,
Jed Parker

Music

J. Ralph

With

Jacqueline Bograd Weld
,
Francine Prose
,
John Richardson
,
Nicky Haslam
,
Edmund White
,
Calvin Tomkins
,
Carlo McCormick
,
Mercedes Ruehl
,
Diego Cortez

Festivals

Tribeca 2015

Without collector and patron Peggy Guggenheim, art in the 20th century might have looked a little different today. She nurtured Pollock, Motherwell, Rothko and scores of others and amassed a personal collection that surely rates among the five top reasons to visit Venice. She was wealthy, but by no means the wealthiest of the Guggenheims. She preferred the bohemian world to high society and had a good nose for where in the world the most exciting work was to be found. She was personally awkward, but sexually adventurous, something she flaunted to widespread amazement and dismay in a scandalous memoir. Her life story is chronicled here by Lisa Immordino Vreeland, recent cine-biographer of Diana Vreeland, and a comfortable inhabitant of the social eco-system in which her subject rebelled and thrived.

“Keeping Jackson Pollock afloat may have been her proudest achievement, but the list of artists who had their first exhibitions with Guggenheim is staggering… Vreeland gives a good sense of her impact, while telling stories of so many love affairs and ego clashes Art Addict never feels a bit like a history lesson.” — John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter