MASTERPIECE CONTEMPORARY

FRAMED

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26 @ 7:00PM & 11:30PM

London’s National Gallery houses some of the world’s finest masterpieces, and its curator, Quentin Lester, wants nothing more than to live among them, distraction-free, in a pure and simple life of the mind. When the Gallery’s Victorian-era plumbing fails and floods the museum, its paintings are brought to safety in an abandoned slate mine in Manod, North Wales — the very mine to which the collection was evacuated to during World War II. Quentin accompanies his beloved Raphaels, Titians, and Velasquez to safety, relishing a chance to tend to them in isolation.

Find out more »