Continuing my collection of the world’s best equestrian bronzes, I visited the horse of Vicolo delle Palme in the Capitoline Museums in Rome.
Slow Museums: February 3, 2022 – Musei Capitolini
Slow Museums: December 11, 2021 – Bomarzo – il Sacro Bosco / Parco dei Mostri
After spending a few hours here, I feel a kindred sympathy for its creator, the prince Pier Francesco (“Vicino”) Orsini. I too have felt inexplicable urges to move rocks and construct walls and fountains, “sol per sfogare il core”.
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On November 18, 2019, I stumbled upon a magnificent bronze equine hidden in the deepest labyrinth of the MANN’s collection of Pompeiian paintings. Set up on a rough wooden pallet in Sala LXXVIII, the installation seemed temporary, incomplete – there was no information anywhere in the room about its provenance.
Saluti da Cortona, part IV
Another update from Cortona, winter 2020-21. This shit is getting old.
Continue reading “Saluti da Cortona, part IV”Slow Museums: January 21, 2021 – Firenze – Gallerie degli Uffizi
My last Slow Museums post was in December 2019, which means I haven’t been to a museum in over a year.
Continue reading “Slow Museums: January 21, 2021 – Firenze – Gallerie degli Uffizi”Christmas, 2020
Vita longa, ars brevis
And after everything, they decided not to build the parking garage at all.
Aminah Robinson Artist Residency
My friend Jane Acri in Columbus, Ohio, alerted me earlier this year to the wonderful fact that Aminah Robinson’s former home in Columbus would be preserved for use as an artist residency space for African American artists, thanks to the good work of the Columbus Foundation, the Columbus Museum of Art, and the Greater Columbus Arts Council. Now, the renovation is finished and the house is ready for its first resident, artist Johnathan Payne.
Continue reading “Aminah Robinson Artist Residency”Saluti da Firenze
I needed to carry some documents to Florence on Thursday – it was the first time I had been on a train since the beginning of March, before the lockdown.
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