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Archive | June, 2015
Grey Art Gallery Conversation: Doryun Chong and Herb Tam
23 Jun
THURSDAY, June 25, 6:30 pm
Museum of Chinese in America
215 Centre Street
Conversation: Doryun Chong and Herb Tam
Doryun Chong, chief curator, M+ Hong Kong, and Herb Tam, curator and director of exhibitions, Museum of Chinese in America, will discuss Tseng’s life and art in New York, his influence on younger Chinese artists, and how his cultural identity may or may not have impacted his work.
Tickets required: $12/Adult; $7/Student & Senior; FREE for MOCA Members. Free with NYU ID:
NYU ID holders please email programs@mocanyc.org to reserve your ticket.
Generously supported by the Asian Cultural Council. Co-sponsored by the Museum of Chinese in America and NYU’s Grey Art Gallery.
Offered in conjunction with the exhibition
Tseng Kwong Chi: Performing for the Camera
on view at NYU’s Grey Art Gallery
from April 21 to July 11, 2015.
For more information on the exhibition,
please visit www.nyu.edu/greyart
Email: greyartgallery@nyu.edu
Tel: 212/998-6780
Grey Art Gallery Hours:
Tuesday/Thursday/Friday: 11 am–6 pm
OPEN LATE Wednesday: 11 am–8 pm
Saturday: 11 am–5 pm
Closed Sunday/Monday/Major holidays.
Image: Tseng Kwong Chi
East Meets West Manifesto, 1983
from the East Meets West series
C-print, printed 2014
71 x 71 in.
Courtesy Muna Tseng Dance Projects, Inc., New York
Professor Edward Sullivan’s co-curated exhibition opens at the Blanton Museum of Art
23 JunImpressionism and the Caribbean: Franscisco Oller and His Transatlantic World, organized by The Brooklyn Museum and co-curated by Richard Aste and Edward Sullivan, opened at The Blanton Museum on June 14. The show will be opening at The Brooklyn Museum in September. 
The National Gallery of Art’s Piero di Cosimo exhibition (co-curated by Professor Dennis Geronimus) is set to re-open at the Uffizi in Florence
22 Jun
Professors Carol Krinsky and Dennis Geronimus in Huffington Post
8 JunMusic Professor Claims Discovery Of New Leonardo Da Vinci Portrait
For centuries, a 500-year old engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi sitting in the Cleveland Museum of Art was thought to depict the Greek mythological figure of Orpheus, rocking out on his lira da braccio. However, Ross Duffin, a music professor at Cleveland’s Case Western Reserve University, has a different idea.
In an article for Cleveland Art magazine, Duffin illuminated the differences between Orpheus — often rendered as a clean-shaven youngin’ — and the man in the image — a jolly older fellow with noticeably luscious locks.
After a bit of detective work, Duffin noticed that while the handsome man in the 1505 work didn’t quite adhere to the common depictions of Orpheus at the time, they didhave a lot in common with a certain Renaissance master: Leonardo da Vinci.
There exist only two portraits of the elusive Leonardo, but, according to Duffin, the features depicted in them resemble those apparent in Cleveland’s mysterious engraving. He writes: “[A portrait by Francesco Melzi] shows a man with a beard and long curls, and the very slight bump in his nose and the ridge above the brow are an excellent match for the long-haired, bearded [man] in the Marcantonio engraving.”
Not only does Leonardo bear resemblance to the long-haired man in the image, the two also share a musical passion. As art historian Giorgio Vasari wrote in 1550: “Leonardo brought with him that instrument which he had made with his own hands, in great part of silver, in order that the harmony might be of greater volume and more sonorous in tone, with which he surpassed all the musicians who had come together there to play.”
Between the physical resemblance and the lira factor, Duffin’s art historical theory has gained some momentum. “This is serious and stands some chance of being right,” da Vinci scholar Martin Kemp, a professor emeritus of art history at Oxford University, wrote in an email to Live Science.
Leonardo da Vinci, Head of a Man (Possibly a Self-Portrait?), red chalk, from Leonardo’s Codex on the Flight Birds, c.1505 (Biblioteca Reale, Turin)
The remaining question is: how and when did these two men — Raimondi, a Bologna-based engraver, and Leonardo, who spent time in Florence, Milan, and Rome — cross paths? “The problems are of time and place,” Kemp continued. “Marcantonio was working in Bologna at this early stage of his career, and there is no obvious way they would have met. At this stage, I would say that it is temptingly possible but unproven.”
Duffin does posit a scenario that could have served as the potential meeting place — a 1506 production of “Orfeo” in Milan. In fact, it’s even possible that Leonardo starred in “Orfeo,” an opera, as the lead character of Orpheus, instrument in hand. If not, Duffin also suggests Raimondi could have created the work from a reference portrait without ever having met Leonardo in person.
We reached out to Carol Herselle Krinsky, Professor of Art History at New York University, who seemed ambivalent about the discovery, and even more so about the engraving itself. “Professor Duffin was right to notice that this is an uncommon portrayal of Orpheus,” Krinsky wrote in an email to The Huffington Post. “If [Raimondi] made a print with Leonardo as Orpheus, and did it on speculation that people would buy it, he might have wanted to show the great man even more conspicuously and suggest his own familiarity with him. Here, the musician competes for our attention with a bear and a scratching dog. It’s true, though, that the engraver was still young when he made the print and not yet at his most mature and thoughtful.”
Leonardo da Vinci, Head of an Old Man (Possibly a Self-Portrait?), red chalk on light brown paper, c.1495 or c.1514 (Biblioteca Reale, Turin)
Krinsky was most intrigued by the unusual decision to align a mythical figure and an artist, as opposed to a nobleman. “The interesting part is not the face itself but rather the portrayal of Leonardo as Orpheus — in other words, as a musician in addition to being an artist, a scientific investigator … Identifying a living person with a divinity is an idea that became even more popular as time went on, but if I’m not mistaken, the people so identified were usually kings, dukes, counts, and other noblemen rather than people who had to work for a living, as Leonardo had to do.”
Krinsky concluded that even if Leonardo is depicted in the engraving, the artwork reveals little we don’t already know about the Renaissance legend. “We are not looking at a new work by Leonardo himself. We learn little about his appearance that wasn’t already known. The interesting discovery is that the face might be Leonardo’s, and if so, one of Leonardo’s contemporaries thought so well of him that he identified him with an Olympian divinity. Professor Duffin certainly deserves praise for drawing our attention to the print and its potential meaning, even if the print itself is no masterwork.”
Dennis V. Geronimus, Associate Professor of Renaissance Art and Chair of the Department of Art History at NYU, was more skeptical of Duffin’s claim. “A connection between the seated musician and Leonardo is possible, but I would not say that it’s probable,” he wrote. “There is no other Renaissance master from whose hand one might wish a newly discovered or previously overlooked image possibly to have sprung. The same may be said of of his own captured likeness, especially when that likeness corresponds with that of a long-haired and bearded, almost sorcerer-like figure. In both cases, the visual evidence very seldom bears up to sustained scrutiny.”
He concluded: “In the case of the Raimondi engraving, the most straightforward interpretation is also the likeliest: The seated musician is Orpheus among the animals, the mythical figure shown playing a contemporary instrument — be it a lute or, in this case, a lira da braccio — as was so often the case in Renaissance imagery. [But] one could also imagine Raimondi possibly casting Orpheus in the guise of Leonardo, knowing as we do that the latter was something of a musical virtuoso.”
If Duffin’s theory turns out to be true, the clever professor will have discovered what’s only the third known portrait of the iconic artist in existence. And one of the other two is in pretty bad shape, specifically, “damaged beyond repair.” We’re hoping Duffin’s pivotal theory checks out and the world will have another shot to ogle Leo’s curly locks.
We reached out to the Cleveland Museum of Art for comment and they have yet to respond.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/08/leonardo-da-vinci-portrait_n_7494326.html
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