The arts—from the visual and fine arts to music and literary arts—have always served to reflect and amplify culture and community. The arts can also serve as a way of giving voice to the marginalized, a function that is sometimes met with outrage, suppression, censorship, and even destruction. NOMA’s Arts in Peril Film Series examines fundamental questions about the production of art and who decides what art is and can be in modern societies.

Films in this series will be screened during Friday Nights at NOMA programming and on select Saturday afternoons. The selections include:

• Saturday, September 2 (2 p.m.): Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (2016)
• Friday, September 8 (7 p.m.): F for Fake (1973)
• Saturday, September 9 (2 p.m.): The Rape of Europa (2006)
• Friday, September 15 (7 p.m.): Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People (2015)
• Saturday, September 23 (2 p.m.): Exit through the Gift Shop (2010)
• Friday, September 29 (7 p.m.): Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (2013)

ABOUT F FOR FAKE

Cinematic legend Orson Welles appears as himself in this witty and subversive film essay on fakery and forgery, art and illusion. Taking footage from an earlier François Reichenbach documentary on art forgery—based on the book by the literary hoaxer Clifford Irving—Welles worked his own clips into it, reediting the original footage extensively. (1973 | 1 hour, 29 minutes)

Watch the original trailer: