The healing power of music
Andrew Rossetti, a licensed music therapist in New York, uses guitar music and visualization exercises to help calm patients undergoing medical treatments. Music therapy is increasingly used to help patients cope with stress and promote healing. John Smith via The New York Times.
by Richard Schiffman
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Focus on the sound of the instrument, Andrew Rossetti, a licensed music therapist and researcher, said as he strummed hypnotic chords on a Spanish-style classical guitar. Close your eyes. Think of a place where you feel safe and comfortable.
Music therapy was the last thing that Julia Justo, a graphic artist who immigrated to New York from Argentina, expected when she went to Mount Sinai Beth Israel Union Square Clinic for treatment for cancer in 2016. But it quickly calmed her fears about the radiation therapy she needed to go through. The fears were causing her severe anxiety.
Exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts brings together new works by Yann Pocreau
Yann Pocreau (born in 1980), Impermanencies 01, 2017, digital prints, 84 x 102 cm. Collection of the artist.
MONTREAL
.- Well known for his photography, multidisciplinary artist Yann Pocreau has for a number of years been keenly interested in light and its many manifestations. The exhibition Impermanencies, presented at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, brings together new works by Pocreau that offer a poetic reflection on time, the cosmos and photography.
Impermanencies is the culmination of an MMFA-sponsored residency the artist completed at the Darling Foundry from 2016 to 2018 as well as a research stint conducted at the Mont-Mégantic Observatory in 2018, during which he studied the universe and its phenomena. The exhibition offers a metaphorical expression of Pocreaus recent musings and the existential questions that astronomy and an observation of the stars naturally inspire.
Phillips announces the first private selling sculpture exhibition to be sold online through Phillips X
Willem de Kooning, Seated Woman on a Bench, 1972. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY
.-Phillips announced Ground / Breaking, the first dedicated sculpture exhibition to be sold online through Phillips X, Phillips private selling exhibition platform. This curated selection of 39 pieces explores the trajectory of 20th and 21st century & contemporary sculpture. Online from 9 April to 21 May 2021, Ground / Breaking will feature works by world renowned artists including Thomas Schütte, Jeff Koons, Willem de Kooning, Ugo Rondinone, Ai Weiwei, Sarah Lucas, Franz West, George Condo, Duane Hanson, and Arthur Jafa, among others.
A clash of wills keeps a Leonardo masterpiece hidden
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the G20 Summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. The anonymous buyer of the Salvator Mundi was found to be acting as a surrogate for the kingdoms de facto ruler, Salman. Erin Schaff/The New York Times.
by David D. Kirkpatrick and Elaine Sciolino
NEW YORK
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- French curators had worked for a decade to prepare a major exhibition marking the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci. When it opened, though, the most talked-about painting they had planned to show Salvator Mundi, the most expensive work ever sold at auction was nowhere to be seen.
Ketterer Kunst to offer an impressive work of art made by Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter, Abstraktes Bild, 2001. Oil on Dibond. 50 x 72 cm / 19.1 x 28.3 inches. Estimate: 600.000-800.000 / US$ 690,000-920,000.
MUNICH
.- Mission accomplished. Gerhard Richter has completed his pictorial uvre at the age of 89. His paintings made in squeegee technique mark the peak of his creation. A particularly fine example of these internationally sought-after works will be called up in the Ketterer Kunst auction in Munich on June 18/19 with an estimate of 600,000-800,000.
Gerhard Richter is more than the superstar of the German art scene. His name is of global significance, as grand exhibitions and retrospectives, at, among others, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York as well as Tate Modern in London, show. Accordingly, the art world was all the more shocked when the artist unpretentiously announced Things come to an end at some point last fall. S