The Art Of Abstraction

This week, the Hamptons Doc Fest adds another Fest Favorite to its website, this time “Driven to Abstraction,” which was shown at the festival in December 2019. To access the film, visit hamptonsdocfest website.

Directed by Daria Price, “Driven to Abstraction” (84 min., 2019) tells the story of the $80 million forgery scandal that rocked the art world and brought down Knoedler & Co., New York City’s oldest and most venerable gallery. Was the gallery’s esteemed director the victim of a con artist who brought her an endless stream of previously unseen abstract expressionist masterpieces? Or did she eventually suspect them as fakes, yet continued to sell them for millions of dollars for 15 years?

The interview with director Daria Price at Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theater last December will also be included.

Other films also still available through the Hamptons Doc Fest website, most with Q&As from the directors’ appearances at the Hamptons Doc Fest film festival in previous years, are “Terrence McNally: Every Act of Life,” “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am,” “In Search of Israeli Cuisine,” “Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise,” “The Biggest Little Farm,” “Three Identical Strangers,” “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution,” “Spielberg,” “Life, Animated,” “Very Semi-Serious,” “Free Solo,” “To a More Perfect Union: U.S. v. Windsor,” “Marvin Booker Was Murdered,” the new first-run documentary “Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint,” “Dads” for Father’s Day, “Pick of the Litter,” “Jane Fonda in Five Acts,” the new first-run documentaries “John Lewis: Good Trouble” and “Spaceship Earth,” “A Moment in Time: Hamptons Artists,” “What Happened, Miss Simone?” new first-run documentaries “The Fight” and “Denise Ho: Becoming the Song,” and Fest Faves “Mike Wallace Is Here” and “Merchants of Doubt.”