On Friday, September 17th,  Art on View and Friday Night Films at Darien Library meet for the perfect artistic convergence.

The opening reception for UP CLOSE, photography by Blake Robinson, will be held in the Library's Art Gallery at 6:30 p.m. This Art on View exhibit will feature intimate portraits of people as well as macro-photographs of flowers and marbles. (The exhibit will run through October 25th.) Click here for more information.

Our film screening, that evening at 7:30 p.m., will be The Art of the Steal, about the greatest, most underhanded art theft since World War II. This gripping documentary chronicles the long and dramatic struggle for control of the Barnes Foundation, a private collection of art valued at more than $25 billion. (Click here for the Friday Night Films schedule for September.) (2009) Documentary; Not rated; 101 minutes

Please join us for this special art-full evening.