A preparatory study for the Libyan Sibyl's foot in the Sistine Chapel, unearthed through a chance online submission, fetched $27.2 million at Christie's, illustrating the robust market for documented works on paper by Old Masters.
Anselm Kiefer's monumental 'Le Alchimiste' at Milan's Palazzo Reale, a central element of the city's Winter Olympics cultural program, presents forty-two canvases in the palace's war-scarred Sala delle Cariatidi, resurrecting the overlooked women of early science.
Rather than deliberate destruction or the concealment of radical discoveries, historians largely attribute the scarcity of Leonardo da Vinci’s finished oeuvre to his relentless experimentation, unstable materials, and frequent abandonment of projects for new intellectual pursuits.
Lin May Saeed's exhibition at Sapieha Palace dissects the paradox of untouchability, employing sculptures in polystyrene and other media to reveal how meaningful connection in human-animal relations emerges from the ethical preservation of distance.
Kunsthalle Zürich unveils Niloufar Emamifar's site-specific spatial syntax featuring a raised floor from Ballet Zürich, alongside Kaarel Kurismaa's first institutional exhibition outside Estonia, showcasing his late-1990s kinetic sound sculptures.
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