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VREELAND’S BEATON

Lisa Immordino Vreeland—director of documentaries about her grandmother-in-law Diana Vreeland, and Peggy Guggenheim—turns her eye to photographer, diarist, and set and costume designer Cecil Beaton in her new film LOVE, CECIL.

Vreeland will be at the Nuart this week for a post-screening Q & A.

LOVE, CECIL

LISA IMMORDINO VREELAND Q & A

Friday, July 20, at 7:15 pm.

Film plays through July 26.

Nuart Theatre

11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles.

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Poster image credit Zeitgeist Films.

Truman Capote in Morocco, photographed by Cecil Beaton.

Greta Garbo in New York City, photographed by Cecil Beaton.

Beaton at Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball, New York City, 1965.

THE GUGGENHEIM SIX

Peggy Guggenheim insisted that her collection remain intact in Venice every year between Easter and November 1st, the period when Venice receives its greatest number of visitors, and which coincides with the biennale. But this summer, key artwork from Peggy’s holdings are at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, where they join works collected by the original contributors to the Guggenheim Foundation—artist and curator Katherine Dreier, dealer Karl Nierendorf, artist Hilla Rebay, gallerist Justin K. Thannhauser, and industrialist Solomon Guggenheim—in VISIONARIES: CREATING A MODERN GUGGENHEIM.

BrâncușiPissarro, Duchamp, Picasso, Calder, Klee, Mondrian, and Pollock are all represented, with a special emphasis on the work of Kandinsky.

VISIONARIES: CREATING A MODERN GUGGENHEIM, through September 6.

SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 88th Street, New York City.

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Upper two: Exhibition catalogue, edited by Megan Fontanella; and Oskar Fischinger, Untitled, 1942. Image credit: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Bottom: Peggy Guggenheim.

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POLLOCK’S ALCHEMY

ALCHEMY (1947), by Jackson Pollock, has not been seen in the United States for nearly half a century. Now on loan from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, ALCHEMY is on view at the Guggenheim in New York through September 6, 2017.

This exhibition utilizes “three-dimensional imaging, elemental mapping, x-radiography, and nondestructive analytical techniques to identify the painting’s pigments and binders,” allowing visitors to “comprehend the physical properties of materials Pollock used to create ALCHEMY, and how he applied them to the canvas.”*

ALCHEMY, through September 6.

SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 88th Street, New York City.

*guggenheim.org/artwork/3482

Jackson Pollock, Alchemy (1947), Oil, aluminum, alkyd enamel paint with sand, pebbles, fibers, and wood on canvas.

Image credit: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Peggy Guggenheim Collection