All of TVGuide.com Videos Only

Who Gets To Call It Art?

2005, Movie, NR, 80 mins

Who Gets To Call It Art?: Review

Peter Rosen's fizzy, poppy gloss on the career of Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Henry Geldzahler (1935-1994), whose owlish looks belied a keen sensibility and adventurous spirit that helped make the careers of multiple generations of post-World War II American artists. Born into a conservative family of wealthy diamond dealers from Belgium, the Yale-educated Geldzahler used his bar mitzvah money to buy works by Frank Stella and Larry Poons. Offered a job as a curatorial ... read more leave a comment