"Waldemar Januszczak is considered by many to be the most entertaining, thorough & fascinating art documentarian ever seen. Januszczak gives us his usual wonderful location shooting, going inside both Sickert's & Sargent's studios.

This is the fascinating story of two of the biggest characters in art – two larger-than-life immigrants who were battling for nothing less than the future soul of British painting: Sickert, the gruff, aggressive man-of-the-people, and Sargent, the urbane and charming dandy. Sickert vs Sargent also brings together the two biggest, juiciest stories of the two artists; on the one hand, Sargent's awful encounter with the moral codes of the day by painting Madame X with a dress strap falling down from her shoulder; on the other, Sickert's deliberate searching out of the dark and sinister in Edwardian Britain – most famously for painting his series on the subject of the famous Camden Town Murder.

Focusing on some of the most beautiful and alarming paintings ever made – pictures of aristocrats and prostitutes, coronations and killings, opera houses and music halls – the programme evokes the long-lost atmosphere of Edwardian London and shows how these two artists were waging a war whose legacy still haunts us today." He delivers time and time again! Don't miss it. Two shows at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury: 11:00 am and 7pm on Wednesday, March 6

Oct 2, 2024, 4:30 to 8 PM

Oct 3, 2024, 10:30 to 11:30 AM

Oct 3, 2024, 5 to 6:30 PM