By Ann Frieze

As winter settles into its proverbial home in the region, our town’s residents have a great opportunity to gather in what has been termed “Norfolk’s Living Room” to watch the Monday night Documentary Film Series at the Library.

In keeping with its award-winning status of bringing art and cultural programming to its citizens, the Norfolk Library will display a series of stellar and award-winning films exploring different aspects of the art world for four straight weeks.

The first film, “Levitating Mass” on February 2, will focus on a fascinating journey one artist took in providing a huge boulder to be transported to an art gallery in Los Angeles, where it would be suspended feet off the ground. The second, “Herb and Dorothy,” explores a couple with a modest income who end up devoting their lives to acquiring thousands of world-class art works in their one-bedroom apartment in New York, only to then donate their collection to the National Gallery of Art.

A life tribute to Diana Vreeland in “Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel” is the focus of the film on February 23, while the final one (to be shown on March 2), “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry,” provides the inside story of the famous Chinese artist who has also been a high-profile critic of his own country. Each film, about ninety minutes in length, is shown on a high-definition projector which was acquired two years ago from special funding through the Community Foundation of Northwest Connecticut. All films are free to the public. Those attending are encouraged to bring a brown bag supper or a cup of soup.

Photo by Bruce Frisch.