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East Carolina University physicist George Bissinger, with violin makers and Polytec, Inc., measures acoustics of famous violins including Stradivarius models and contemporary makers as part of the VIOCADEAS project. The work involves 3-D laser scanning and CT scans to study vibration and sound radiation, with tests conducted at ECU.
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Richard Serra’s Equal Parallel/Guernica-Bengasi, which Madrid’s Reina Sofía museum misplaced, will be re-created by Serra as a twin for €78,000 ($99,238); the original cost the museum paid was about $220,000. The new sculpture will be shown next year at the Museum of Modern Art before joining the Reina Sofía’s permanent collection, per Dale Fuchs for the New York Times.
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This Playbill article discusses how Cremona's traditional violin makers are facing pressure from globalization, with cheap imports from Asia and counterfeits threatening the reputation of Cremona’s luthiers, including references to Stradivari, Guarneri, and Amati. It cites Reuters reporting and notes sales records for Stradivarius instruments and the contrast with Asian violins. It also mentions Cremona’s consortium head Gian Domenico Auricchio and the production scale of Pearl River.
archive.seattletimes.com
Richard Serra visits Olympic Sculpture Park to supervise installation of his 300-ton steel sculpture 'Wake' at Seattle's Olympic Sculpture Park, with discussion of the park and acquisition of the sculpture by SAM.
antiquesandthearts.com
Adele Bloch-Bauer I, Gustav Klimt’s portrait of a Viennese socialite, went on public display July 13 at New York’s Neue Galerie and remains through September 18. The painting, completed in 1907, has been hailed as one of the world’s most expensive works and has been linked to the Mona Lisa and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d'Avignon in significance.
krone.at
The article reports that a violin claimed to be made by Antonio Stradivari was discovered in Split, Croatia. The instrument reportedly bears the inscription Antonius Sradivarius Cremonensis, facebat anno 1725, as cited by Slobodna Dalmacija. An antiques expert notes the need for careful analysis to determine if it is authentic or a fake; a woman brought the violin to the Split City Museum for appraisal. The piece mentions a Stradivari violin circa the 18th century and notes Stradivari's overall output and the current estimated number of surviving instruments.
donaldellisgallery.com
The Vancouver Sun reviews Past to Present: Art of the Northwest Coast, a collaborative exhibition between Donald Ellis Gallery and Equinox Gallery in Vancouver, B.C. The show places more than 80 historical and contemporary Northwest Coast First Nations works in dialogue, featuring artists such as Dempsey Bob, Sonny Assu, Robert Davidson and Susan Point, alongside historical pieces. Valued at over $3 million, the exhibition includes a Kwakwaka’wakw dance mask and paired works by Dempsey Bob with a Regency-style armchair by Captain Richard Carpenter.
artnews.com
Gustav Klimt's Adele Bloch-Bauer I, 1907, was acquired by Neue Galerie, New York for $135 million, the highest price for a painting at the time. The article notes it is part of a group of five Klimt works that were restituted to the Bloch-Bauer heirs and discusses the complex provenance involving the Nazi seizure and restitution process.
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