“Vermeer and Music: the Art of Love and Leisure” Celebrates the Art and Life of Johannes Vermeer’s Career in Exclusive Cinema Event
NCM Fathom Events, BY Experience and PhilGrabskyFilms.com Present Third Artist Profile Cinema Event in Select U.S. Theaters on Oct. 10
Centennial, Colo. – Sept. 30, 2013 – Showcasing more than half of Johannes Vermeer’s paintings in HD from a new exhibition from London’s National Gallery for the first time ever, NCM Fathom Events, PhilGrabskyFilms.com and BY Experience continue their presentation of the “EXHIBITION” series with “Vermeer and Music: the Art of Love and Leisure” on Thursday, Oct. 10 at 7:30 p.m. local time. Following the “Manet: Portraying Life” event in April and “Munch 150” event in June, this fascinating series continues as “Vermeer and Music: the Art of Love and Leisure” offers a fresh look of one of the most startling and fascinating artists of all time. Audiences will be flown around the world to The National Gallery in London, The Netherlands, New York and Washington for an in-depth look into Vermeer’s biography and artistic output as well as musical pastimes of the 17th century.
Tickets for “Vermeer and Music: the Art of Love and Leisure” are available at participating theater box offices and online at www.FathomEvents.com. For a complete list of theater locations and prices, visit the NCM Fathom website (theaters and participants are subject to change). The event will be broadcast to more than 500 select movie theaters across the country through NCM’s exclusive Digital Broadcast Network.
This in-theater event will combine the art of Vermeer and his contemporaries with rare musical instruments, songbooks and live music from the Academy of Ancient Music as well as an exclusive big screen view of the new Vermeer Room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; where five of Vermeer’s works are hanging together for the first time. Along the way, expert commentaries from the world’s leading authorities will provide further insight into Vermeer and his impressive artistic career.
“Nowhere else in the world will audiences be able to experience such a comprehensive and in-depth view of Vermeer than with ‘Vermeer and Music: the Art of Love and Leisure’” said Shelly Maxwell, executive vice president of NCM Fathom Events. “This exciting conclusion to the 2013 EXHIBITION season will bring cinema viewers as close to the real thing as possible – all from the comfort of their local movie theater.”
About National CineMedia (NCM)
National CineMedia (NCM) operates NCM Media Networks, a leading integrated media company reaching U.S. consumers in movie theaters, online and through mobile technology. The NCM Cinema Network and NCM Fathom Events present cinema advertising and events across the nation’s largest digital in-theater network, comprised of theaters owned by AMC Entertainment Inc., Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CNK), Regal Entertainment Group (NYSE: RGC) and other leading regional theater circuits. NCM’s theater advertising network covers 183 Designated Market Areas® (49 of the top 50) and includes approximately 19,600 screens (approximately 18,800 digital). During 2012, over 710 million patrons attended movies shown in theaters in which NCM currently has exclusive, cinema advertising agreements in place. The NCM Fathom Events live digital broadcast network (“DBN”) is comprised of approximately 750 locations in 173 Designated Market Areas® (including all of the top 50). The NCM Interactive Network offers 360-degree integrated marketing opportunities in combination with cinema, encompassing 37 entertainment-related websites, online widgets and mobile applications. National CineMedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: NCMI) owns a 47.0% interest in and is the managing member of National CineMedia LLC. For more information, visit www.ncm.com or www.FathomEvents.com. (NCMI-E)
About BY Experience
BY EXPERIENCE kicked off the digital revolution of taking live events into movie theaters and other global locations, with David Bowie’s 2003 Reality album launch. Since then, over 17 million tickets have been sold worldwide for cinema events BY Experience has distributed. Credits include: Worldwide HD Distribution Representative, The Met: Live in HD series (2006 to present); International (ex-UK) Distribution Representative, the U.K.’s National Theatre Live series (2009 to present); Executive Producer for Cinema Leonardo Live (February 2012), the public radio shows Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me (May 2013), This American Life – Live! with Ira Glass (2008, 2009, 2012) and A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor (February and October 2010), the Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest (June 2011), Red Hot Chili Peppers Live: I’m With You (August 2011); The Big Four: Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax (June 2010), St. Olaf Christmas Festival (2007 and 2011), the New York Times speaker’s series TimesTalks LIVE (2009), David Gilmour: Remember That Night — Live from the Royal Albert Hall (September 2007), Distributor to Cinema Westlife: The Farewell Concert (June 2012), the classic music celebration BBC Last Night of the Proms (2009 – 2012), BBC Electric Proms: Robbie Williams (October 2009). BY Experience distributes to over 60 countries, to 2,000 movie screens. For more information, visit: www.byexperience.net
About PhilGrabskyFilms.com
PhilGrabskyFilms.com is the cinema division of Seventh Art Productions, one of the UK’s longest-running independent production companies. Among their extensive slate of films are over 100 art films with Tim Marlow which have been key in keeping arts on British TV in the past decade. More recently, PhilGrabskyFilms.com’s owner Phil Grabsky has directed award-winning films for the cinema and TV including ‘In Search of Mozart’, ‘In Search of Beethoven’ and ‘The Boy Mir – Ten years in Afghanistan’ which have all played in cinemas and on TV around the world. His ‘In search of Haydn’ will be released in 2012.
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