See This Movie on Netflix: The Art of the Steal (2009)

This is the most important movie I've seen in quite some time, and it's not because it's about art. It's because it's about money and power and how they actually operate when there is something that people with money and power want badly. This is a great documentary about the Barnes Foundation, which was created in 1923 by Albert Barnes. Barnes assembled an incomparable collection of post-impressionist art (Renoir, Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso, etc.) and created a school around it that reflected the way that he wanted it to be viewed. This movie documents how outside forces (with money and power) systematically violated what Barnes wanted, and what he tried to preserve in his will. All things considered, he did a pretty good job protecting what he believed in. But it still only took 90 years to violate it completely. See this film. I'll put the trailer here... but really, you have to see the film. Don't just watch this trailer and think you get it (or that it isn't interesting because it's about "art"). It's not about art. It's about money and power. And the way that money and power really work when people with money and power want something is documented in this movie better than anywhere I can remember. So just see it, please.

Here's the netflix link.