EXHIBITION ON SCREEN Series Comes To Jaffrey

The internationally acclaimed exhibition-based art film series, Exhibition on Screen, debuts this weekend at the River Street Theatre with Michelangelo: Love and Death as well as The Artist's Garden: American Impressionism. They will be shown Friday, November 17 and Saturday, November 18.

Spanning his 89 years, Michelangelo: Love and Death, takes a cinematic journey from the print and drawing rooms of Europe, through the great chapels and museums of Florence, Rome, and the Vatican to explore the tempestuous life of Michelangelo. We go in search of a greater understanding of this most charismatic figure, his relationship with his contemporaries and his valuable artistic legacy. Through expert commentary and Michelangelo's own words, this film takes a fresh look at an enigmatic man whose life is celebrated in every mark and every stroke he made.

The Artist's Garden: American Impressionism features the sell-out exhibition The Artist's Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887-1920 that began at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and ended at the Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut.

The film is directed by Phil Grabsky and narrated by actor Gillian Anderson (The X Files, The Last King of Scotland).

Michelangelo: Love and Death plays Friday, November 17 at 7pm and Saturday, November 18 at 2pm. The Artist's Garden: American Impressionism plays Friday, November 17 at 2pm and Saturday, November 18 at 7pm. Tickets are $15.00 (students & teachers $12). More program and schedule information, as well as ticket purchases, can be found at riverst.org or by calling the RST Box Office (603) 532-8888. The after-hours box office can be reached by calling OvationTix at (866) 811-4111.
The River Street Theatre is located in downtown Jaffrey, New Hampshire at 6 River Street. The River Street Theatre is sponsored by Grove Street Fiduciary, Coca-Cola, the Board of Trustees of the Park Theatre, Janet S. Grant, Betty Locke, Owen Houghton and the James F. & Fernande Kelly Charitable Trust.