What’s On
The Art Society Nerja
The Art Society Nerja has the pleasure to invite you to two
lectures and a film.
The Cruise Market Film: Lady in Gold - ‘a double bill’
with an introduction by Anne-Marie O’Connor (pictured
below), author of the book that inspired the film.
From Magic Lanterns to Metro Goldwyn Meyer - the Birth of
the Silver Screen and
the Artists it inspired is a
fully illustrated lecture
by Geri Parlby, PhD,
FRSA, MA.BA
Tuesday, February 11 at
6pm at the Centro
Cultural, C/Granada,
Nerja.
Guests welcome; €10
Sponsor: Studio 17
Tuesday, February 18, at 5pm (please note time) at the
Centro Cultural, C/Granada, Nerja
Guests welcome; €10
Sponsor: The Cruise
Market
At 5pm introduction by
Anne-Marie O’Connor
At 6pm Film: Lady in
Gold, starring Helen
Mirren
Dr Parlby (pictured
right) will talk about how
the moving image has
been a powerful source
of imagination from the
moment a magic lantern
flickered to life in the
17th century, how the
Motion Picture industry
developed throughout
the late 19th and early
20th centuries and how
it inspired some of the
greatest artists of the
time.
This is a story of art
and justice, about an
artist, Gustav Klimt,
and his progressive
intellectual Jewish
female patrons. These
remarkable women
were persecuted when
the Nazis came to
Vienna, and their
paintings were stolen.
Many years later, Maria
Altmann, an elderly
Viennese emigre in Los
Angeles stepped
forward to demand the
return of the paintings,
that were now on
display in a Viennese
art museum. After a
lengthy legal battle the
paintings were
returned to the family
in 2006.
Geri Parlby is a former
Fleet Street journalist.
She has a Masters in
History of Art and a
Theology Doctorate.
She has been lecturing
for the past 12 years in
the UK and
internationally. She is
an Honorary Research
Fellow at Roehampton
University and a Fellow
of the Royal Society of
Arts.
Anne-Marie O’Connor
is a veteran foreign
correspondent, culture
writer and former war
reporter. She has
covered conflicts in
various Latin American
countries, but for the
Los Angeles Times she
has also profiled such
persons as Nelson
Mandela, George Soros,
Joan Didion and John
McCain.
Her story on Maria
Altmann’s efforts to
recover the family’s
Klimt collection first
appeared in the Los
Angeles Times. The story
was made into a film in
2015.
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