A few weeks ago, I took part in the press viewing of “Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Florence, c.1504” at the RA, but only got myself to finish and publish the review just now. The exhibition will be open until 16 February 2025, and I highly recommend you visit. It is located at the Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries on the far end from Piccadilly, right next to Burlington Gardens, the street, and inside Burlington Gardens, one of the two main buildings of the RA.   All pics (c) BerkeleySqB. Pic #1 shows painting attributed to Francesco Rosselli and workshop, View of Florence from the Southwest, c.1495.   MICHELANGELO, LEONARDO, RAPHAEL, FLORENCE, C.1504 AT THE RA All visitors at the press viewing had been given strict instructions on which artworks were completely off limits and which could only be photographed in so-called studio-shots, showing the exhibition space, not mainly the artwork, perhaps showing more […]

Last week, Ellie & I were invited by Moco to check out their new London venue. The museum opened next to London’s Marble Arch in August. As some of you might have guessed, the name of the museum is a portmanteau of Modern and Contemporary (Art).     (2) Jeff Koons: Balloon Venus Dolni Vestonice (Violet); (3) Dolphin Taz Trashcan FIRST VENUE OPENED IN AMSTERDAM EIGHT YEARS AGO It opened its first exhibition space in Amsterdam in 2016. The founders and owners, Kim & Lionel Logchies-Prins, had been longstanding local art dealers, who had exhibited the art in traditional, free-admission art galleries, for the main purpose of selling the artwork to big-pocketed customers. In October 2021, in the middle of the pandemic, the second venue was opened in Barcelona.     (1) Koons: Monkeys (Ladder); (2) Jean-Michel Basquiat: Untitled (Bicyclist); (3) Koons: Untitled (Donkey) THE MUSEUM IS AIMED AT THE […]