Tuesdays at Noon at SAAG

To coincide with our 2011 Art & Culture Tour: Paris in the Springtime, SAAG will be showing a number of relevant films throughout the spring in Tuesdays at Noon. The best part? Admission is free! For a complete schedule visit www.saag.ca/programs/film. Some upcoming features include:

March 8: The Image Mill Revealed. This is a documentary that describes the final three months leading up to the opening of the Moulin à images by Robert Lepage and Ex Machina created for the 400th anniversary of Quebec City.

March 15: Modern Marvels: The Eiffel Tower. This documentary tells the story of the world's most famous tower and the technological challenges and breakthroughs its construction entailed. When the French government was organizing the Centennial Exposition of 1889 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution, the noted bridge engineer Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel was asked to design and build a structure to symbolize the occasion. His finished product aroused praise, criticism, and amazement.

March 22: Rosamond Bernier - French Impressionism: Paris by Day and by Night. It was in the 1870’s that the Impressionists took over Paris and made it their own. It is through the eyes of Degas, Monet, Renoir, Pissarro and Caillebotte that visitors still see Paris, no matter how much it may have changed.

Every year, the renowned lectures given by Rosamond Bernier at the Metropolitan Museum of Art are sold out months in advance. Her lectures are really conversations, intimate chats about artists, their friends, their society and their work. As co-founder of L’Oeil, the influential vanguard art magazine published in Paris, Bernier became friendly with Matisse, Picasso, Miró, Léger, Braque, Man Ray, Max Ernst, Duchamp and many other modern masters. These lectures have a depth that only a firsthand acquaintance would allow.