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
Google Doodle to mark 151st anniversary of The Metropolitan Museum of Art s founding
The images are all drawn from The Mets Open Access program, which includes some 400,000 photographs of objects in the Museums collection available for use without restriction.
NEW YORK, NY
.- The 151st anniversary of the founding of The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be celebrated with a custom Google Doodle, the creative treatment of the Google logo featured on the search engines homepage. The Met-inspired animated Doodle will launch in the United States at 12 a.m. on Tuesday, April 13, and be viewable for 24 hours. The Doodle will appear in more than 20 countries.
New publication investigates digital developments on the African continent
Digital Imaginaries. African Positions Beyond the Binary.
KARLSRUHE
.-ZKM launched a new publication called Digital Imaginaries. Digital Imaginaries. African Positions Beyond the Binary was published in German and English by Kerber Verlag Bielefeld/Berlin on March 23, 2021.
The book presents the results of the three-year cooperative project Digital Imaginaries (2018-2021). The project partners were Kër Thiossane and Afropixel Festival in Dakar/Senegal, Wits Art Museum and Fak ugesi Festival of African Digital Innovation in Johannesburg, South Africa, and the ZKM | Karlsruhe. Digital Imaginaries investigated digital developments on the African continent by focusing on exhibitions, festivals and performances, seminars, lectures and artist residencies. The project leader was Richard Rottenburg, curators of the exhibitions in Dakar, Johannesburg, and Karlsruhe were Julien McHardy, Marion Louisgrand Sylla,
Lost treasure from Horace Walpole s Strawberry Hill Collection discovered in Suffolk and set for auction
The soon-to-be-auctioned work is one of only three known examples of the model, with the other two currently held by The Louvre and the Fitzwilliam Museum.
CAMBRIDGE
.- A sculpture of an ostrich from the workshop of celebrated Renaissance sculptor, Giambologna, will go under the hammer at Cheffins Fine Sale in Cambridge on 21st April. Having been held in a private collection for over 180 years, and originally purchased from the Horace Walpole collection at Strawberry Hill House, the sculpture is set to sell for between £80,000 -£120,000.