A tour-de-force, Pollock (2000) was Ed Harris at his creative best. As both director and star, Harris delivered what should've been an Oscar-winning performance in both capacities. The film centers on the innovative artistic life and tragic death of Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock. Marcia Gay Harden won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her role as Lee Krasner. The rest of the cast is great as well, including Bud Cort, Jennifer Connelly, Amy Madigan as Peggy Guggenheim and Val Kilmer as Willem de Kooning.
Well-researched details permeate the pages of this twisting fictional tale of art theft and deception by Dr. Noah Charney (author, professor and founder of ARCA). From Caravaggio to Malevich, from museum security to police investigations, the storyline stays interesting, creative and on point…
"Rome: In the small Baroque church of Santa Giuliana, a magnificent Caravaggio altarpiece disappears without a trace in the middle of the night.
Paris: In the basement vault of the Malevich Society, curator Geneviéve Delacloche is shocked to discover the disappearance of the Society's greatest treasure, White-on-White by Suprematist painter Kasimir Malevich.
London: At the National Gallery of Modern Art, the museum's latest acquisition is stolen just hours after it was purchased for more than six million pounds.
In The Art Thief, three thefts are simultaneously investigated in three cities, but these apparently isolated crimes have much more in common than anyone imagines. In Rome, the police enlist the help of renowned art investigator Gabriel Coffin when tracking down the stolen masterpiece. In Paris, Geneviéve Delacloche is aided by Police Inspector Jean-Jacques Bizot, who finds a trail of bizarre clues and puzzles that leads him ever deeper into a baffling conspiracy. In London, Inspector Harry Wickenden of Scotland Yard oversees the museum's attempts to ransom back its stolen painting, only to have the masterpiece's recovery deepen the mystery even further.
A dizzying array of forgeries, overpaintings, and double-crosses unfolds as the story races through auction houses, museums, and private galleries--and the secret places where priceless works of art are made available to collectors who will stop at nothing to satisfy their hearts' desires.
Full of fascinating art-historical detail, crackling dialogue, and a brain-teasing plot, Noah Charney's debut novel is a sophisticated, stylish thriller, as irresistible and multifaceted as a great work of art." -amazon.com
