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Facelift Planned--As part of the renovation of Rockefeller Center in NYC, an 18-foot-tall copper and bronze sculpture of Prometheus weighing eight tons will be repaired and regilded. Sculpted by Paul Manship and installed over 60 years ago, the restored statue is scheduled to return to his home in the spring.
Van Gogh Package Offered--Several hotels in the Los Angeles area are offering packages with passes to "Van Gogh's Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam" at the LA County Museum of Art. The exhibit of 70 paintings will run through April 4. For further information, call (323) 857-6000.
First Painting for Museum--The Montclair Art Museum, N.J., has been given its first O'Keeffe painting titled "Skunk Cabbage" (1922). It will hang in the museum's lobby until May and then become part of a permanent collection installation scheduled to open in 2002.
Alice Sets Record--Lewis Carroll's personal copy of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) has sold for a record $1.54 million at Christie's. Included among the 38 related items auctioned was Carroll's sepia-toned photograph of the original Alice at age 6 which sold for $62,000.
Travelers Eyed--By the end of this month, look for a new addition to "Oculus," a mosaic installation at the Chambers Street/World Trade Center subway station in NYC. The new 20 x 40 foot work includes 800,000 pieces of glass and stone mosaic and symbolizes New York as a microcosm of the world's diverse cultures.
Champ's Fists Missing--An edition of bronze sculptures of boxing champ Muhammed Ali's fists weighing 7-1/2 lb. each and 9-1/2 inches long have turned up missing at the Tallix Foundry. One hundred sets, cast from the famous fists, will be created and sold in galleries as commercial art. Sports memorabilia fans who buy the pieces will be automatically enrolled in the Millennium Society, which will enable them to cast their vote for an athlete to represent the millennium. Officials are hoping the missing "Fists of Greatness" have simply been misplaced.
City Hall Restored--San Franciscans are proud of their newly renovated City Hall. Besides structural improvements to the 1915 building, the $293 million cost included a newly gilded dome, fixtures, paint, furniture, lights and updated computer and communication systems. Because the building is a national landmark, every lamp, railing and piece of carved wood had to be restored to its original condition.
Museum Reopens--After being closed for almost ten years, Stanford University's newly renovated and expanded museum (Palo Alto, CA) has opened with a new name, too: The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts. As home to the second largest Rodin collection outside Paris, the museum's first exhibit features 120 Picasso prints from the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena (through March 28). Recent gifts and loans on view include works by Oldenburg, de Kooning and Serra. (650) 723-4177.
3 Norman Rockwell
12 Max Beckmann
18 Louis Comfort Tiffany
21 Constantin Brancusi
24 Winslow Homer
29 Balthus
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Copyright ARTtalk Vol. 9 No. 4 -- February 1999