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NEW YORK /Sfilate.com/-- In addition to sponsoring the Gala, Donatella Versace collaborated with the Whitney’s Education Department to create Art Unites, a global initiative aimed at providing needy children in the United States and China with the incomparable spirit, creativity, inspiration and solace that visual arts bestow. The program, officially launched on July 1st, benefits the Starlight Children’s Foundation, an organization dedicated to brightening the lives of seriously ill children and their families in the US, and the Versace One Foundation (founded by Jet Li) in China, an organization committed to the long-term recovery of the areas devastated by last year’s earthquakes in the Sichuan province, funding and operating two Versace One Foundation children’s centers with schooling, psychological therapy, and post trauma counseling for over 1200, through creative visual arts, an essential form of relief.
As part of the Art Unites program Versace provided canvas and art supplies to 500 children from Starlight and 900 children from the Versace One Foundation to create original drawings using the theme of “friendship”. Each child’s work of art has been fashioned into a one-of-a-kind Versace canvas tote bag which are being sold worldwide now at Versace boutiques and the Gilt Groupe, a member’s only ecommerce site. The bags retail for about 200 euro, and 100% percent of the proceeds from the sale of the bags will be donated equally to Starlight and to the Versace One Foundation.
LONDON /ArtReview/ -- Coming on the heels of 12 months of extraordinary financial stress, both in the art world and the real world, the 2009 edition of the Power 100 reflects fundamental changes in influence. Previous No. 1s, both artists and collectors, have plummeted, while only the most ambitious of museums have stayed near the top; meanwhile, percolating up from the middle ranks is a new generation of highly networked, flexible, globetrotting curators – men and women at the very center of a new way of working.
1. Hans Ulrich Obrist 2. Glenn D. Lowry3. Sir Nicholas Serota 4. Daniel Birnbaum 5. Larry Gagosian 6. François Pinault 7. Eli Broad 8. Anton Vidokle, Julieta Aranda & Brian Kuan Wood 9. Iwona Blazwick 10. Bruce Nauman 11. Iwan Wirth 12. David Zwirner 13. Jeff Koons 14. Jay Jopling 15. Marian Goodman 16. Agnes Gund 17. Takashi Murakami 18. Alfred Pacquement 19. Peter Fischli & David Weiss 20. Mike Kelley 21. Barbara Gladstone 22. Steven A. Cohen 23. Dominique Lévy & Robert Mnuchin 24. Adam D. Weinberg 25. Marc Glimcher 26. Amy Cappellazzo & Brett Gorvy 27. Cheyenne Westphal & Tobias Meyer 28. Ann Philbin 29. Matthew Higgs 30. Matthew Marks 31. Tim Blum & Jeff Poe 32. Gavin Brown 33. Ralph Rugoff 34. Liam Gillick 35. Anne Pasternak 36. Dakis Joannou 37. John Baldessari 38. Isa Genzken 39. Paul McCarthy 40. Michael Govan 41. Eugenio López 42. Cindy Sherman 43. Ai Weiwei 44. Patricia Phelps de Cisneros 45. Annette Schönholzer & Marc Spiegler 46. Diedrich Diederichsen 47. Richard Prince 48. Damien Hirst 49. Bernard Arnault 50. Massimiliano Gioni | 51. Amanda Sharp & Matthew Slotover 52. Joel Wachs 53. Victor Pinchuk 54. Udo Kittelmann 55. Marina Abramović 56. Michael Ringier 57. Gerhard Richter 58. Richard Serra 59. RoseLee Goldberg 60. Kasper König 61. Roberta Smith 62. Monika Sprüth & Philomene Magers 63. Germano Celant 64. Emmanuel Perrotin 65. Peter Schjeldahl 66. Beatrix Ruf 67. Okwui Enwezor 68. Nicolas Bourriaud 69. Karen & Christian Boros 70. Isabelle Graw 71. Maurizio Cattelan 72. Charles Saatchi 73. Jerry Saltz 74. Jasper Johns 75. Louise Bourgeois 76. Thaddaeus Ropac 77. Mera & Don Rubell 78. Thelma Golden 79. Sarah Morris 80. Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev 81. Anita & Poju Zabludowicz 82. Paul Schimmel 83. Jose, Alberto & David Mugrabi 84. Sadie Coles 85. Daniel Buchholz 86. Victoria Miro 87. Maureen Paley 88. Johann König 89. Nicolai Wallner 90. Maria Lind 91. Massimo De Carlo 92. Mario Cristiani, Lorenzo Fiaschi & Maurizio Rigillo 93. Rirkrit Tiravanija 94. Toby Webster 95. Long March Space 96. Nicholas Logsdail 97. Harry Blain & Graham Southern 98. Claire Hsu 99. Peter Nagy 100. Glenn Beck |
LONDON /TimesOnline/ -- The ghost of a fingerprint in the top left corner of an obscure portrait appears to have confirmed one of the most extraordinary art discoveries. A growing number of leading art experts agree that it is almost certainly by Leonardo da Vinci and worth about £100 million.
Carbon dating and infra-red analysis of the artist’s technique are consistent with such a conclusion, but the most compelling evidence is that fragment of a fingerprint. Peter Paul Biro, a Montreal-based forensic art expert, found it while examining images captured by the revolutionary multispectral camera from the Lumière Technology company.
The fingerprint corresponds to the tip of the index or middle finger, and is “highly comparable” to one on Leonardo’s St. Jerome in the Vatican. Importantly, St. Jerome is an early work from a time when Leonardo was not known to have employed assistants, making it likely that it is his fingerprint.
Martin Kemp, Emeritus Professor of History of Art at the University of Oxford, is convinced and recently completed a book about the find (as yet unpublished). He said that his first reaction was that “it sounded too good to be true — after 40 years in the business, I thought I’d seen it all”. But gradually, “all the bits fell into place.”
If it is by Leonardo, it would be the only known work by the artist on vellum although Professor Kemp points out that Leonardo asked the French court painter Jean Perréal about the technique of using coloured chalks on vellum in 1494.
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND /The Guardian/ -- RBS has told the Guardian it broadly agrees with its critics that it now has a public duty to share its collection and is in discussions with museums and arts experts, including the National Galleries of Scotland, which runs five galleries in Edinburgh, about possible loans and exhibitions.
Colin Tweedy, the chairman of Arts & Business, an influential charity which promotes culture and the arts in business, said the bank's silence about the collection and its failure to show it publicly had been frustrating and worrying. "I can understand their embarrassment, but the difficulty is that the collection seemed to have disappeared," he said. "I was worried it had been thrown away and damaged. My view is that this is something they should be proud of, instead of being embarrassed." He added: "It is not only a public duty but also a business opportunity, because people will see some wonderful British work and realize it is owned by RBS."
The department of culture urged RBS to put its works on show: "We want the British public to have access to great works of art, whether they are in public or privately owned collections. We would encourage any business which owns a corporate art collection to enable it to be seen by the public where practicable."
