Tom Thomson painting in Ottawa defaced by climate activists • 127 new MiC employees still waiting for their first paycheck since May • Vittorio Sgarbi’s line up in Florence: no Isozaki loggia • Restoration of equestrian statue of Cosimo I de ‘Doctors • Day in 9 news
A painting by Tom Thomson at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa has been tarnished by climate change activists.
A man named Caleb Züdfeld painted in pink paint The North River (1915) a landscape by Tom Thomson, artist of The Group of Seven (a group of Canadian artists from the 1920s), at the National Gallery in Ottawa during a protest by climate activists against artwork in public collections . The protest, which took place around noon yesterday, August 29, was reported by the Canadian press to be organized by the On2Ottawa group, which is calling on the Canadian federal government to set up a national fire agency as the country battles its worst fire. season on record. (Benjamin Sutton)
127 MIK recruits since May are still waiting for their first paycheck
After three years of competition, 127 Ministry of Culture recruits (Admission, Control and Supervision Assistants, AFAV) joined the service in May and are still waiting for their first paycheck due to bureaucratic delays. Recruits work in state museums, monuments, archaeological sites, archives and libraries. “We have to pay rent, utilities, shopping, and now also provide school supplies for our children, but it’s really difficult. We make huge sacrifices to bear all the costs“. Here’s what one of them said in an interview. (Editorial team)
The Vittorio Sgarbi line runs through Florence: no Isozaki Loggia, yes, into the green zone.
This is not quite the final De profundis of the Isozaki lodge, but we are almost there. Now everyone more or less agrees. A project by a recently deceased Japanese architect has no plans. Florence Mayor Dario Nardella, Uffizi official on behalf of director Eike Schimdt, Superintendent Antonella Ranaldi and Deputy Minister of Culture Vittorio Sgarbi (always a big opponent of Isozaki’s project) told about this on August 28. meeting in Florence. Sgarbi intends to replace the exit, as envisioned by the architect who won the competition 23 years ago, with a green space: a garden that has space for plants and local scents and is equipped with a vertical wall, like the Uffizi library. (Coriere della Sera)
The restoration of the equestrian statue of Cosimo I de Medici in Piazza della Signoria has been completed.
After a year of restoration, Cosimo I de’ Medici is again sitting on his horse in Piazza della Signoria since yesterday. The large bronze statue of Giambologna, 1594, weighing 10,000 kilograms, had serious corrosion problems on the gratings inside the horse’s legs and on the patina of all bronze surfaces: interventions were also made on the marble base. The last restoration dates back thirty years. The work was commissioned by the municipality and financed by the fashion house Salvatore Ferragamo Spa with over one million euros through the ArtBonus program. This intervention completed the restoration of all the sculptural groups in Piazza della Signoria. (Tina Hares)
Collaboration Lancôme x Louvre to launch a new collection of products.
Beauty as living art is the theme of the Lancôme x Louvre collaboration, in which the beauty brand and the museum are launching a new collection of skin and makeup products. The initiative is inspired by nine masterpieces of sculpture such as Venus de Milo, Nike of Samothrace, Corina, Diana of Gabia, Nymph with a Scorpion, Eco, Hegea, Venus of Arles and the sleeping Hermaphrodite. The operation was conceived by Lisa Eldridge, Lancôme Makeup’s global creative director, who brought in brand muses Zendaya, Aya Nakamura, Amanda Seyfried and He Kong to the ad campaign to present the concept of beauty as a living art, expressed in a commercial filmed in the halls of the Louvre. (brand-news.it)
Valle d’Aosta region buys Introd Castle
The Regional Council of the Valle d’Aosta, in an extraordinary convocation, approved the acquisition of the castle of Introd (a building built between the 12th and 15th centuries, then reconstructed in the 19th and 20th centuries to shelter two different fires), together with furniture from the period, to the surrounding park, a building called ” Granio”, used as a warehouse, and the adjacent land. The decision was announced by the president of the region, Renzo Testolin, who stressed the importance of improving and preserving the historical and cultural values of the Valle d’Aosta. Castle Introd will become a monumental public space, a window through which you can look into the architectural past of the late Middle Ages of the region. The purchase price is set at 3.65 million euros. After the completion of the purchase and sale transaction, Introda Castle will officially come under the full jurisdiction of the regional administration, starting from October 30th. (Editorial team)
He buys the painting for $4 from a junk dealer and then discovers that it belongs to N.C. Wyeth. Now he could sell it for $250,000.
When an antiques enthusiast bought a $4 painting from a thrift store in 2017 that appeared to be signed by American artist N.C. Wyeth, she joked that the painting might indeed be the work of the prolific Maine artist, patriarch of the Wyeth family. artists. However, now that the work is believed to be a genuine N.C. Wyeth work, it is expected to fetch $250,000 at Bonhams Skinner’s September auction. According to Hindman Skinner, the seller, who remained anonymous, bought the painting without his knowledge from the Savers store in Manchester, New Hampshire, looking for frames to reuse. It looks like Wyeth’s painting was there against the wall, along with damaged posters and prints. (Carly Porterfield)
Autographs for all pockets at auction in Rome
The 500 Years of Autographs auction, scheduled by the Bonino auction house in Rome on September 14, 28 and October 12, will offer a selection of more than three hundred manuscripts, including those from the Risorgimento and the Italian twentieth century. But there are also Renaissance works: among other things, documents of the Aragonese court and the papal office on wars, privileges and the Inquisition. There are several examples among the lots: an essay by Giorgio Bocca, worth between 30 and 50 euros; a letter autographed by Maria Theresa of Habsburg-Lorraine (90-120 euros); original document by Antonio Fogazzaro (120-180 euros); photograph signed by Vittorio Emanuele III (200-300 euros). One of the most important lots is a letter from Ferrante d’Aragon dated May 16, 1484, addressed to Pope Sixtus IV della Rovere (4-6 thousand euros). (Editorial team)
At “Alexander the Great and the East” in Mann in Naples, 200 thousand visitors
About two hundred thousand visitors of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples on May 29 opened the exhibition “Alexander the Great and the Orient”, which accompanied the start of the executive phase of the restoration of the great mosaic of the battle between Alexander and Darius, a native of the House of the Faun in Pompeii. (Editorial team)