Aggie

[Available on various VOD platforms and played on Jan. 14 as part of AARP's Movies for Grownups.] Wonderful, eclectic artwork is showcased in Catherine Gund's fascinating, educational, inspirational, entertaining, 92-minute documentary that details the contribution to the arts by her mother Cleveland-born philanthropist, art collector, and former Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) President Agnes Gund, who sold Roy Lichtenstein's painting "Masterpiece" in 2017 for $165 million to begin the Art for Justice Fund to help stop indiscriminate mass imprisonment, and consists of interview snippets with artists (such as Glenn Ligon, Roy Lichenstein, Julie Mehretu, Russell Craig, Teresita Fernández, and Marina Abramovi?), curators Thelma Golden and Nicole Callo, civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson, film directors John Waters and Ava DuVernay, philanthropic advisor Sophie Lopez, film producer Abigail Disney, granddaughter Sadie Hope-Gund, and daughter Tenzin Gund-Morrow.
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