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Art Education Cinema Series: Desert of Forbidden Art

The Falmouth Art Center shows art films on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month.  Coffee, tea and light refreshments are provided. $5 suggested donation.

July 23: Desert of Forbidden Art

Trace the incredible story of defiant visionary Igor Savitsky, an artist and museum curator who cunningly acquired more than 40,000 banned Soviet Union paintings and hid the illegal collection from the KGB in Uzbekistan's Nukus Museum.  In addition to rare archival footage and interviews with the artist's children, this absorbing documentary also features letters and diary entries read by Ben Kingsley, Sally Field, and Edward Asner.  80 minutes.

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