#BOO! #FRIDA #HALO’S #GHOST #HAUNTING #HALLS OF MEXICO CITY MUSEUM

Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas (1939). Courtesy of the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City.

Boo! At Least a Few People Believe Frida Kahlo’s Ghost Is Haunting the Halls of Her Mexico City Museum

Compliments of: https://www.diegovociproject.com/

#ONE #GERMAN #PAINTING #TAUGHT ME HOW TO #VISIT A #MUSEUM

Christoph Paudiß, Ein Marodeur (A Marauder) (1665). Image: Ben Davis. a student of Rembrandt, carrying the Dutchman’s style of poignant chiaroscuro with him back to the German lands.

What One Mysterious, Easily Overlooked German Painting Taught Me About How to Visit a Museum in the Age of Blockbusters A Marauder stands for the best-case fate for the typical piece of art in a museum—which then also makes it stand for the typical condition of “Art” when you strip away the myth of its transparent timelessness. That fate is not to vanish. It endures. But it’s also not to inspire lasting ecstasies of interpretation or to summon crowds. Instead, it is to be present but not present, lurking in the shadows, waiting for the moment when it might actually be seen and known.

Below; a work by internationally collected artist Diego Voci with similar expression and depth in its interpretation. To see more visit: https://www.pinterest.com/diegovoci/old-men-and-more-diegovocitm/

Diego Voci; Der Alte “Old Man” 21 of 60 Lithography

#BTS #MOMA PREPARES FOR #OCTOBER #EXHIBITIONS

Watch the #BTS on how a museum gets ready for an exhibition, each detail all handled with care.

Compliments of The Diego Voci Project, an all volunteer team that catalogs and archives internationally collected artist Diego Voci (VOH-chee) 1920-1985.

23 ESSENTIAL NYC MUSEUM SHOWS TO SEE THIS FALL!

Installation view, “Paris, Capital of Fashion” at FIT Museum. Courtesy of FIT. https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/new-york-museum-shows-fall-2019-1630744

LEONARDO DA VINCI INSPIRED DIEGO VOCI

Leonardo da Vinci, St Jerome (begun circa 1482). Photo © Governatorate of the Vatican City State, Vatican Museums, courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

The work is Leonardo da Vinci’s St. Jerome, and it is on loan from the Vatican Museums in Rome

MET GETS LOAN OF DA VINCI

“For Leonardo, a painter’s most ambitious goal was to convey a composition with convincing emotion,” said exhibition curator Carmen Bambach. “Few paintings in the history of Western art can elicit such a powerful psychological reaction.” – #ARTNEWS: https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/leonardo-st-jerome-metropolitan-museum-1594957

Antonio Diego Voci (1920-1985) VOH-chee inspired by Leonardo da Vinci to capture powerful emotions in his works of art; see below as an example.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Diego_Voci

See the entire painting “The Fisherman’s Miraculous Catch” by Diego Voci here; https://diegovociproject.wordpress.com/2016/03/09/no-tomorrows-no-yesterdays-only-the-moment-diegovoci/

#STROLL WITH #DIEGO; #MUSEUM 20YR #RETROSPECTIVE

 

An imaginary setting featuring Diego’s paintings on display.  Join us on an #Art stroll through a #Virtual #Gallery featuring an incredible #collection of works by the Internationally Collected artist Diego. The gallery is fashioned after the #Mardou #Museum.

Presented by The Diego Voci Project: https://www.diegovociproject.com/gallery-video

 

#FRANCE DINGS TAXPAYERS A BILLION DOLLARS TO SEE #ART

Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris; 

The Louis Vuitton Foundation in #Paris has been called a “gift to France.” But according to some critics, the private museum founded by billionaire art collector Bernard Arnault was a gift that came at a spectacular cost to French taxpayers. Now, an anti-corruption group has filed a complaint accusing the foundation of fraud and tax evasion in the Court of Auditors in #Paris, France’s financial taxation watchdog.

The final construction cost of the Frank Gehry-designed building on the edge of #Paris was nearly €790 million (around $900 million), according to French media, seven times the original estimate when Arnault first announced the project. This figure has been revised significantly upward since the museum first opened in 2014. At that time, the New York Timesreported that the cost was closer to $135 million. (The foundation declined to comment to artnet News about the final cost.)

Read rest of article here: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/louis-vuitton-foundation-fricc-1406812

View this video about an Artist of a Thousand Faces “Artist of Thousand Faces” https://youtu.be/dECP7O3ftUo

 

 

DIEGO SEZ: 35 Stunning #Museum Shows #NYC Over the #Holidays, Renaissance Jewel Boxes to Heart-Thumping Surveys

Hilma af Klint, Group IV, The Ten Largest, No. 7, Adulthood (1907). The Hilma af Klint Foundation, Stockholm. 

To see all the exciting shows click hear: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/new-york-museum-shows-to-see-over-the-holidays-1342733?utm_content=from_&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=US%209:37%20a.m.%20newsletter%20for%2012/11/18&utm_term=New%20US%20Newsletter%20List

To learn more about Diego Voci visit: www.diegovociproject.com

“FRIENDS” On The Wall & “FRIENDS” On The Couch

This October 1972 occasion was Coop Cooprider’s 36^th birthday (on left).  The friends on the couch are Ingrid and Walter Nermerich, owners of “Alt Landstuhl Restaurant” in Landstuhl, Germany home of the famous Chateaubriand.

“Friends” on the wall is an amazing work of art by internationally collected artist Antonio Diego Voci (1920-1985).  The painting was purchased from the private collection of Jawdat and Joy Naffouj, art dealers also in Alt, Landstuhl.  “Friends” has been on Coop and Patti’s walls as they moved around the world ever since.

Coopriders now own about 8 dozen or so Diego art paintings; several are earmarked for selection into a Major Museum Diego Retrospective once a generous benefactor comes forward. 

Three great places to learn more about Diego:

1. Google “Diego Voci” then click “Images”
2. Wikipedia: “Antonio Diego Voci” 
3. Diego Voci Project website 

NOTE: Coop Cooprider is the volunteer Diego Voci Historian.

ALEXANDER #CALDER NEVER SEEN BEFORE #OBJECTS!

Toaster (around 1942), photograph courtesy of the Calder Foundation, New York artist copyright Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2018 2018. Photography credit: © 2018 Calder Foundation, New York.

https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/hauser-wirth-somerset-calder-roxbury-1247153

“Alexander Calder was a virtuoso of do-it-yourself decor and gadgetry. The extent of his ingenuity is currently being revealed in an exhibition at Hauser & Wirth‘s rural Somerset outpost, where a show tells the story of how the American sculptor and his wife transformed a rundown farm in Roxbury, Connecticut, into a whirring hub of creativity.” 

Fireplace built by Diego Voci ca. 1965-1970 Wiesbaden, Germany

To view never seen before objects by Diego Voci (1920-1985 VOH-chee); https://www.pinterest.com/diegovoci/designer-sculptor-tailor-cook-and-morediegovocitm/

We are looking for a generous benefactor (s) to support the ultimate gift for the Diego Voci Estate, to have a Major Museum Diego Voci Exhibition.  Museum could be the choice of the benefactor.  Interested, contact us at diegovociproject@gmail.com