Synopsis
Bouncing between Europe and the United States as often as she would between lovers, Peggy Guggenheim’s life was as swirling as the design of her uncle’s museum, and reads more like fiction than any reality imaginable. Peggy Guggenheim – Art Addict offers a rare look into Guggenheim’s world: blending the abstract, the colorful, the surreal and the salacious, to portray a life that was as complex and unpredictable as the artwork Peggy revered and the artists she pushed forward.
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Cast
- Peggy GuggenheimHerself (archive footage)
- Marina AbramovićHerself
- Arne GlimcherHimself
- Robert De NiroHimself
- Mercedes RuehlHerself
- Dore AshtonHerself
- Diego CortezHimself
- Jeffrey DeitchHimself
- Larry GagosianHimself
- Nicky HaslamHimself
Recommendations
- 88
Philadelphia Inquirer
Richly informative and fascinating. - 80
The New York Times
Ms. Vreeland has paced her documentary well, a chapter to each era, with hundreds of beautiful images spanning decades of artists, galleries, parties, scenes. She also makes good use of interviews Guggenheim gave to a biographer a couple of years before her death in 1979. - 80
Los Angeles Times
Lisa Immordino Vreeland deftly choreographs the story in her vibrant documentary Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict, at once a capsule history of Modernism and a poignant personal portrait. - 80
Empire
By smuggling canvasses out of Nazi Paris, she was “midwife” to Pollock and Rothko. “Art,” the doc claims, “was a mirror of her own strangeness.” - 75
Washington Post
As this film’s engrossing character study makes clear, this woman of extraordinary tastes and appetites was ahead of her time, in more ways than one. - 70
Village Voice
Guggenheim may not be news to the art world, but for the rest of us the film might stir wishful nostalgia for a breakthrough time in cultural history. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
In a brisk hour and a half Vreeland gives a good sense of her impact, while telling stories of so many love affairs and ego clashes Art Addict never feels a bit like a history lesson. - 63
Boston Globe
If the documentary isn’t especially deep, maybe that’s because its subject wasn’t.
