Watch The Duke, about an art heist that changes a couple's lives as part of WestportREADS 2024! In 1961, 60-year-old Kempton Bunton stole Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. He sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government invested more in […]
Tickets Here Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez will serve up their soul Winter Dance Party in the Trefz Forum at The Westport Library/Verso Studios on Saturday, January 13. Doors open at 6:30 pm; show starts at 7 pm. Tickets are $20, with a cash bar available. Join us LIVE with resident SNL singing tour de […]
Buy Tickets Now! Join us on Thursday, January 18, at 7 pm in The Westport Library’s Trefz Forum for the SHORT CUTS Film Festival’s final installment of international narrative short […]
Learn about a real art mystery in the 2021 documentary The Lost Leonardo as part of WestportREADS 2024. The Lost Leonardo is the inside story behind the Salvator Mundi, the most expensive painting ever sold at $450 million. From the moment the painting is bought for $1,175 at a shady New Orleans auction house, and […]
Register Here Join us for a screening of the provocative documentary, WHAAM! BLAM! Roy Lichtenstein and the Art of Appropriation, followed by a talkback with the film's director, James Hussey, as well as producer/editor Tory Jadow. Was Roy Lichtenstein a great artist, a thief, or both? This is the question addressed by this feature documentary. […]
