Category Archives: Ephemera

Pointing out the transitory stuff, whether floating world or sinking feeling.

Unable to flip the bird

2007 saw the demise of Ileana Sonnabend, a legendary purveyor of art created after 1945. Among the famous works in her considerable estate was Robert Rauschenberg’s Canyon, a canonical, influential mid-century work well known from survey texts and studies of formal … Continue reading

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A stitch in time

The controversy over the Bella Principessa takes a fascinating turn as Martin Kemp uncovers, in Poland, what appears to be the 15th-century codex from which this page was torn. Binding marks on the left edge of the page of vellum … Continue reading

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The New Leonardo is a Three Pipe Problem

The game is afoot! Hasan Niyazi is on a mission to separate fact from fancy in the matter of the newly attributed Leonardo painting, the Salvator Mundi. In his latest post, H. provides a summary and some speculations based on … Continue reading

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