The San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, formerly the SLO Art Center, recognizes that film making is a visual art form and is delighted to present a series of outstanding documentary movies inspired by its current exhibitions.

Each film has been carefully selected to enhance your experience of the Art Center’s exhibits and to deepen your understanding of the work on display.

The current exhibit is Perfect Stranger: Robert Chapman. The show features magnificent abstract works by the San Miguel artist, which leads to the film, "Who Gets to Call it Art?" by Peter Rosen. The showtime is May 18 at 7 p.m. at the art museum, 1010 Broad Street. 

"Who Gets to Call it Art?" is reportedly a wild ride through the fascinating 1960s New York art world, seen through the eyes of the first contemporary art curator for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Henry Geldzahler.

The culmination of the film is the famous and hugely controversial show Geldzahler put on in 1970 at the Metropolitan, "New York Painting 1940-1970". It was a blockbuster and still resonates to this day. We get to see inside his home and the beautiful objects with which he had surrounded himself.

Never-before-seen footage of artists including Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein as well as exclusive interviews with artists Frank Stella, David Hockney, and James Rosenquist provide a vibrant and entertaining look at 10 amazing years when American artists challenged everything and forever changed the world of art. One of TIME Magazine’s top ten DVDs of 2006. Tickets available at the door.

San Luis Obispo MUSEUM OF ART
Monday, May 17, 2010 7 p.m.
1010 Broad Street
www.sloartcenter.org
805.543.8562