This year Garage Museum of Contemporary Art will host the second edition of a festival of movies about art The ART Newspaper Russia FILM FESTIVAL, launched in 2017 by The Art Newspaper Russia.
The program includes nine movies, entrants in the 71st Cannes International Film Festival, the Sundance, and the Tribeca Film Festivals. Garage Auditorium will screen Shadowman by Oren Jacoby, a movie about the street artist Richard Hambleton, and Oscar, a movie about the co-founder of the non-official artistic group Lianozovo Oscar Rabin, that will be introduced by the directors Evgeniy Tsymbal and Alexander Smoljanski.
The audience of The ART Newspaper Russia FILM FESTIVAL will also have the chance to see movies about Robert Mapplethorpe (Mapplethorpe), Orson Welles (The Eyes of Orson Welles), Peter Greenaway (The Greenaway Alphabet), Bill Viola (Bill Viola: The Road to St Paul’s), Yayoi Kusama (Kusama: Infinity), Renzo Piano (Renzo Piano: The Architect of Light) as well as a documentary about the state of contemporary art market Blurred Lines.
