FILM SCREENING: Taking Venice (2024)

FILM SCREENING: Taking Venice (2024)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2025 at 7pm

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center {120 College Street}

Free and Open to All – Registration Encouraged but Not Required

This 2024 documentary tells the story of the 1964 Venice Biennale. A cast of influential figures—Alice Denney, Washington insider; Alan Solomon, ambitious curator; and Leo Castelli, a powerful New York art dealer—embark on a daring plan to make American artist Robert Rauschenberg the winner of the Grand Prize. Their deft maneuvers leave the international press crying foul and Rauschenberg questioning the politics of nationalism that sent him to Venice in the first place.

Join us for this free screening, presented in partnership with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in conjunction with BMCM+AC’s current exhibition, Points in Space: Performance at Black Mountain College.

Learn More: https://www.blackmountaincollege.org/events/taking-venice-screening/