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"Peggy Guggenheim" Next in Art Film Series

Falmouth Art Center features acclaimed documentary

Falmouth Art Center will screen "Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict" on Sunday, May 19.
Falmouth Art Center will screen "Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict" on Sunday, May 19. (Courtesy Submarine Entertainment)

The next film in the Falmouth Art Center’s Art Film series is the acclaimed documentary “Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict.” The film is showing on Sunday, May 19, at 3pm at the Falmouth Art Center.

A colorful character who was not only ahead of her time but helped to define it, Peggy Guggenheim was an heiress to her family fortune who became a central figure in the modern art movement.

As she moved through the cultural upheaval of the 20th century, she collected not only art, but artists. Her colorful personal history included such figures as Samuel Beckett, Max Ernst, Jackson Pollock, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, as well as countless others. While fighting through personal tragedy, she maintained her vision to build one of the most important collections of modern art, now enshrined in her Venetian palazzo.

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Tickets are $14; or $12 for Falmouth Art Center members. The Falmouth Art Center is located at 137 Gifford Street, Falmouth. For more info, go to FalmouthArt .org or call 508-540-3307.

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