98' - original language with subs
On June 16 the director Amei Wallach will be present; Q&A session after the screening.
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free entrance, until capacity is met
gate opening: 6:45 pm
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"Taking Venice" recounts the events that led Robert Rauschenberg to win the Grand Prize for painting at the Venice Biennale in 1964 - the first American artist to do so.
The documentary unearths archive reports and footage, and features interviews with key players in a bid to untangle the machinations behind the artist's victory. Taking Venice aims to highlight how America's involvement in the 32nd Venice Biennale, by way of the United States Information Agency, was actually a political project. In fact, at that time the United States was engaged in what has been termed the Cultural Cold War. Exhibitions and magazines, artists and writers, universities and museums were leveraged to highlight distinctive American traits such as freedom of expression and individualism.
