Hermitage Revealed will be screened on 27 April 2015 at Cinema City Norwich to complement The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts new groundbreaking exhibition Francis Bacon and the Masters, which features over 100 major works by Francis Bacon with old and modern masters on loan from The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg – including Michelangelo’s Crouching Boy seen above.
A special one hour television version of Hermitage Revealed will be broadcast in the UK on BBC4 at 9pm on Sunday 4 January 2015.
The DVD of the cinema version with Bonus Features is available here.
Filming story of the River God at the Hermitage Museum, on loan from the British Museum until January 2015. To hear what Neil MacGregor has to say, watch the film below.
Elgin marbles sensational loan to Hermitage from British Museum joins 250th anniversary celebrations in St Petersburg this weekend. Hermitage Revealed film première museum screening is Saturday December 6th at 11am in the General Staff Building, St Petersburg.
From the Tsars to the Cellars in Manifesta
In its 250th year, the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg remains the best museum that most of the world has never visited. The former palace of the Tsars holds one of the world’s greatest art collections. And, given its central place in Russian history for more than two centuries, the grand structure on the Neva contains just as many stories.
You can now visit the Hermitage without the burden of the airfare and the cold. […]
Read more: OUTTAKES – David D’Arcy on film
The film was introduced by Richard Armstrong, Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
The screening took place on Museum Mile on Fifth Avenue NYC and Margy flew over for the Q & A, followed by a vodka dinner at Manhattan’s famous Knickerbocker Club.
ReelTalk Movie Reviews: It Will Never Pass into Nothingness, by Donald Levit
