#V&A Museum London 2019

[fashionbooksmilano]

Mary Quant

Jenny Lister With contribution by Johanna Agerman Ross, Beatrice Behlen, Regina Lee Blaszczyk, Susanna Brown, Elizabeth Murray, Janine Sykes, Stephanie Wood

V&A Publishing, London 2019, 224 pages, 22,3 x 28 cm, ISBN  978-1851779956

euro 43,00

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Mary Quant (b. 1934) was an icon of her generation and the personification of 1960s “swinging London.” This book, published to accompany a landmark exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, declares that she revolutionized and democratized fashion, creating fashion for everyone. It explores her then-subversive approach, setting her contribution in the context of British, European, and American fashion in the 1950s and ’60s. It surveys Quant’s life story—her art school background, the development of her retail business, and how she positioned herself as the face of her brand—before exploring the impact her brand has had on fashion, which is still seen today. Written with full access to Quant’s own archives, the book’s many illustrations include period photographs as well as new photography of her mod miniskirts and other designs.

23/05/23

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[thelibraryghost]

A Young Person's Introduction to Late 19th-Century Western Fashion

hello fellow youths

General information Banner, Bernadette. "Exposing Victorian Influencers Who 'Facetuned' Their Photos. (Photo Manipulation was EVERYWHERE)." YouTube. July 17, 2021. English Heritage. "Fashion Through History: Episode 1 – Victorians." YouTube. February 9, 2023. Lady Rebecca Fashions. "100 Years of Fashion // The Fashionable Plus Size Silhouette from 1820-1910." YouTube. June 5, 2021. Victoria and Albert Museum. "100 Years of Fashionable Womenswear: 1830s – 1930s | V&A." YouTube. July 18, 2023. Zebrowska, Karolina. "Victorian Fashion Is Not What You Think It Is." YouTube. March 19, 2019.

Accessories Banner, Bernadette. ""Afro-Victorian": Bringing Historical Black Women's Dress into the 21st Century w Cheyney McKnight." YouTube. October 20, 2021. Cox, Abby. "A Fashion Historian Explains the History of the Handbag." YouTube. January 26, 2023. Rudolph, Nicole. "Dangerous Things in Victorian Pockets : Mens Pocket History." YouTube. March 2, 2024. Rudolph, Nicole. "The Controversial History of Color Season Analysis." YouTube. November 4, 2023. Zebrowska, Karolina. "Disgusting and Creepy Victorian Fashion Trends." YouTube. October 17, 2018.

Bustles and hoopskirts Donner, Morgan. "Weirdest Victorian Invention: The Bustle-Chair (and we made one)." YouTube. November 20, 2020. Lady Rebecca Fashions. "100 Years of Underwear // The Changing Plus Size Shape from Regency to Victorian to Edwardian." YouTube. May 1, 2021. Lady Rebecca Fashions. "All About Bustles! A Deep Dive into 1870s Fashions." YouTube. December 26, 2023. Rudolph, Nicole. "Why were Victorian Hips Controversial?" YouTube. September 12, 2021.

Cosmetics Birchwood, Vasi. "1800s Makeup Is Not What You Think." YouTube. July 21, 2023. English Heritage. "Queen Victoria Makeup Tutorial | History Inspired | Feat. Amber Butchart and Rebecca Butterworth." YouTube. May 20, 2019. Zebrowska, Karolina. "I Used Only Victorian Cosmetics For a Week." YouTube. July 26, 2023.

Fabrics Rudolph, Nicole. "Did Silk Spontaneously Combust in the Victorian Era?" YouTube. August 8, 2021. Rudolph, Nicole. "The History of Elastic." YouTube. July 4, 2021. Rudolph, Nicole. "The Truth About Arsenic in the Victorian Era." YouTube. January 24, 2021.

Gowns Bullat, Samantha. "Dress Historian Analyzes Victorian Mourning Clothing of the Mid-19th Century." YouTube. March 14, 2021. Lady Rebecca Fashions. "All About 1860's Fashion // What did Civil War-era fashion look like?" YouTube. November 12, 2022. Lady Rebecca Fashions. "How did fashion evolve from 1850-1859? // 1850's Fashion Deep Dive." YouTube. October 1, 2022. Rudolph, Nicole. "Victorian Fast Fashion? The Truth about the History of Disposable Clothing." YouTube. February 6, 2022. SnappyDragon. "Were the Pre-Raphaelites painting accurate medieval dress . . . or Victorian fairtytalecore?" YouTube. April 26, 2024. Zebrowska, Karolina. "19th Century Fashion - How To Tell Different Decades Apart?" YouTube. November 17, 2017.

Hair care and styling Banner, Bernadette. "Following a Victorian Home Made Hair Care Routine (1889)." YouTube. September 11, 2021. Lady Rebecca Fashions. "Getting Dressed in an 1888 Daisy Costume // Easy Bustle-Era Hair Tutorial." YouTube. November 13, 2020. Lady Rebecca Fashions. "Getting Dressed in the 1870s & 1874 Hairstyle Tutorial." YouTube. February 23, 2020. Rudolph, Nicole. "Why did Victorian Women Cut their Hair Short?" YouTube. December 18, 2022. Laundry and housekeeping English Heritage. "A Tour of the Laundry - The Victorian Way." YouTube. September 6, 2019. English Heritage. "How to Wash Up - The Victorian Way." YouTube. March 18, 2021. English Heritage. "Laying the Table at Christmas – The Victorian Way." YouTube. December 14, 2022. Walkley, Christina, and Vanda Foster. Crinolines and Crimping Irons: Victorian Clothes: How They Were Cleaned and Cared for. Peter Owen Limited: London, 1978.

Outerwear and working wear Birchwood, Vasi. "What Irish Working Women Wore in the Late 19th Century | I Made the Clothing of My Irish Ancestors." YouTube. June 23, 2023. English Heritage. "The Real Mrs Crocombe | Part Four: A Victorian Cook's Outfit." YouTube. July 5, 2018. Stowell, Lauren. "It's Hot: Let's Look At Some Bathing Suits." American Duchess. August 18, 2023. Rudolph, Nicole. "The History of Jeans, T-shirts, and Hoodies: Time Travel 101." YouTube. March 20, 2022. Zebrowska, Karolina. "The 1851 Women's Pants That Made The Victorians Go Crazy." YouTube. March 2, 2020.

Shoes Rudolph, Nicole. "100 years of Antique Boots." YouTube. February 10, 2024. Rudolph, Nicole. "How to Make Regency & Victorian Shoes: Beginner Shoemaking." YouTube. June 27, 2021. Rudolph, Nicole. "The Myth of Tiny Feet "Back Then"." YouTube. September 26, 2021.

Undergarments Banner, Bernadette. "I Wore a (Medical) Corset for 5 Years. How do Victorian Corsets Compare?" YouTube. November 7, 2020. Banner, Bernadette. "Making Some Frilly Victorian Underwear || 1890s Combinations." YouTube. February 9, 2019. Birchwood, Vasi. "What Victorians Wore to Bed." YouTube. May 5, 2023. Cox, Abby. "I made weird Victorian underwear (it's a knit onesie) & a pretty 1890s corset || historical sewing." YouTube. March 21, 2021. Lady Rebecca Fashions. "How 8 Different Historical Corsets Affect the Same Plus Size Body." YouTube. December 12, 2020. Rudolph, Nicole. "100 Years of Corset History: How 8 Corsets affect the same body." YouTube. November 29, 2020. Zebrowska, Karolina. "How Did Victorian Ladies Stay Warm in Winter? || THE EXPERIMENT." YouTube. January 22, 2021. Zebrowska, Karolina. "How Did Victorian Women Deal With Their Periods?" YouTube. October 17, 2019.

[lokiondisneyplus]

For 30 years, Dan Deleeuw has worked in visual effects, from “The Mask” to “Armageddon” to “Night at the Museum” — but he always had a dream that one day, he might get to direct. That opportunity finally arrived in 2019, when “Avengers: Endgame” directors Joe and Anthony Russo — who’d worked with Deleeuw on VFX for their three previous Marvel Studios productions — hired him to shoot some additional photography for the behemoth production. That gig led to second unit directing jobs on 2021’s “Eternals” and 2023’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” and then, finally, to the main directors chair for the second episode of Season 2 of “Loki.”

Deleeuw, who oversaw visual effects on Season 1 of the show, presumed that he was hired because of his proficiency handling the action beats of the episode, in which Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and his TVA compatriot Mobius (Owen Wilson) pursue a rogue TVA trooper (Rafael Casal) to 1970s London, and then later reunite with Loki’s variant Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino) at a McDonald’s in 1980s Oklahoma. But Deleeuw says that executive producer Kevin Wright told him he was hired as a director because, even when working on visual effects, he “always talks about story.”

Deleeuw also discussed how both he and Ke Huy Quan — who joined the show for Season 2 — were surprised by how Hiddleston approached rehearsing the show, why the production decided to have Sylvie working at McDonald’s — and his reaction to the recent decision by Marvel’s VFX artists to unionize.

Since Sylvie is living in a branched timeline, did you ever discuss having an alternative version of McDonald’s, rather than the actual McDonald’s?

We started saying, OK, she’s gonna settle down on a timeline, what restaurant do we use? At that point, there was a pitch for RoxBurger — you know, the evil corporation in the Marvel Universe, Roxxon. But it didn’t tell a story other than it was like this faux-restaurant. And so McDonald’s came up as a suggestion. And McDonald’s is timeless, in a way — it crosses countries and borders. Everyone started talking about this nostalgic moment they had with McDonald’s. So quickly getting the audience cued into what Sylvie’s feeling — being on the run so long and seeing normal people, and just wanting to have that and leave everything else behind — we’re using McDonald’s to set the audience in a place where they can pick up on that pretty quickly. That’s what kind of sealed the deal on using McDonald’s.

Rafael Casal in Episode 2 of “Loki.” Courtesy of Marvel Studios

What was one of the biggest surprises about the experience of directing this episode?

Something I’ll always try to do on any other show that I direct: It was the openness to collaboration that Kevin Wright had, particularly encouraged by Tom Hiddleston and his experience in the theater. As the scripts were getting closer to being done, we would invite all the directors to come in for their different episodes. All the actors would come in. The writers are there. And we had a week-and-a-half, two weeks where we went through every single script, and just rehearsed them and played with them and made them better. It was just this wonderfully creative moment on the show. Once we got shooting, we had a really good idea of what we wanted to do. Ke [Huy Quan] sat next to me. He saw it all happening, Owen and Tom playing with lines. He leaned over and he’s like, “Is this normal?” I’m like, “It’s normal for them!”

You’ve been working with Marvel for over 10 years now, largely in visual effects. Did you always have an ambition to direct as well?

Yeah. In high school, in college, we did small films — public access, back when there was public access. It was something I always wanted to do. Even from the visual effects standpoint — designing the sequences and doing animatics — telling the story was something I gravitated to. When I got to work with the Russos, they definitely were encouraging of that and gave me the opportunity to shoot additional photography on “Endgame” that led to me doing second unit directing. I just always approach something from a story standpoint. So Kevin Wright saw that I had that kind of brain, and invited me back for Season 2 to direct.

How did he pitch that to you?

Being at Marvel for 10 years, there’s a little bit of a rumor mill going around. So I knew that they had hired Justin and Aaron, and then heard that Kasra [Farahani], the production designer, had gotten an episode. I was like, “Ah, there’s one left!” And then Kevin called me one day and he’s like, “Yeah, so, how’d you like to direct a ‘Loki.'” “Yes!” It was as simple as that.

Last year, several VFX artists who’ve worked on Marvel projects expressed pretty deep frustration with their working conditions, which contributed to the recent decision to vote to unionize. What has your experience been with those issues?

I support everything they’re doing. I’ve been in it for a long time. The number of hours in visual effects have been ingrained in the system for years. From the very beginning, we always had that crunch time. We take a couple months off, and we come back to it again. What you’re seeing now is, the shows are so much bigger, and you’ve got so many shows. A lot of the artists on set, and especially in the visual effects houses, are going from one big show to the next big show to the next big show. 

There has to be something that makes a better work-life balance, for the artists’ sanity and for their families and just their creativity. Otherwise, you’re getting diminishing returns. It’s your crew. You have to take care of them. That is something I think we have to think about and work out.

How did your experience in visual effects have influenced your approach to directing this episode, especially with regard to the VFX?

I can tell a story with something that isn’t there. In the original draft, there was a car chase. It didn’t make a lot of sense why Loki would be in a car chase. We decided we wanted to go a little bit more towards the dark Loki side and move away from a traditional chase. I was imagining one day, “What could Loki do?” and came up with the shadow gags with the horns and things like that. 

Was anything you did that a director who hadn’t worked in visual effects might not know to do?

You already know what it costs in terms of time and difficulty, and when you’re trying to get through your day, what you’re going do to [VFX artists] if you try to shoot without getting the blue screen just right Because I know the consequences, I’ll fight harder for getting it right, so the artists don’t have to deal with it. Getting into post-production, you know how much you can use an effect to help with storytelling, in terms of if you need to change the set a little bit, just to make it make sense for where Loki is. There’s an editor we have at Marvel, Jeff Ford, who’s cut a lot of the films. Jeff is a master. He doesn’t change his cut to fit the footage, he changes the footage to match his cut. I think that’s an insightful way of knowing how to use  some visual effects in post, without getting get too carried away with it. 

[fxreflyes]

Prithee tell us about your favorite visits to museums, firefly. It’s a long and silent January night and your stories will keep madness from us. (To be read in the voice of a Dickensian child of 6 years old, sitting before the hearth.) ☕️

hey hey!! :) my favorite seafaring vessel, a joy as always to meet u here. fret not, i will not let madness consume you! <3

(the context for the voice definitely helped, i most certainly did read it in the voice of a dickensian child. i can hear the crackle of the hearth as i pen these words!)

oh where to start! this is a bit of a brain dump, but is semi-chronological and images included in the order of discussion

first, summer of 2016, going to the hermitage and making puns about all of the art! they were not good puns. i believe my brother called the statue below a "boar"ing statue. it was quite hot since we went in summer and we were very surprised that the musuem had no ac since there is generally some to protect the art from the elements. so twas a very sticky and humor filled walk thru some art that has seen quite a lot (pic 1)

fall of 2018, went to the met's heavenly body's fashion exhibit with 2 friends from high school. i love & still go to musuem's w one of them, she's v sweet. the exhibit took place in the part of the museum that is older and looks like a church, so it was v prescient!! (pics 2-4, the leather jacket was so cool)

spring 2019, went to the met again (can u tell i went to college in nyc) and to the frick for my art history class to do a scavenger hunt for the class. quite honestly the most fun assignment ever. it was going through the museums and finding the art and writing about it. there were 50 or so things to find out. we went 3 times total for 3 sessions of the hunt. went w my dad for one, he has said he wants to do more even now

fall of 2019 i went to the met's instruments of rock n roll and saw instruments from a lot of famous musicians! i have a bunch of pics of them, but was v fun i went w my dad and got a bunch of music taste from him so that was cool. i was v amused by this many headed guitar hahaha (pic 5)

winter 2020 i went to a black tie gala in an art musuem so that was v fun & festive!!!

ok covid took a hit to this list so fall 2021! natural history musuem in london! went w my brother bc he was doing his masters same time as i was studying abroad there. i mean it's gorgeous. my brother is v interested in rocks so spent a while in the geology section! lots of cool rocks.

feb 2022, went to the met around my bday! my bf flew to visit me. saw very cool swords. pictured below!

summer 2022, went to the Louvre and the musee d'Orsay! saw the painting of dante and virgil in hell which was v cool, i have always loved that one.

for the sake of brevity, lets go to feb 2023, went to the whitney to see my fav artist edward hopper and an exhibit on him! went w the same friend as i went to the met in 2018 w. went w my brother too. fav exhibit ever probably, just bc i love hopper and i have included my fav painting by him, new york movie! my mom had a book on hopper growing up on our coffee table so always read it

oh my this is not brief. the fire is dwindling! ill stoke it.

this summer! the prado in madrid! i love goya so seeing his work was just so cool. they v sadly didnt allow photography in the museum but saw his black paintings the ones w saturn eating his children.

i hope my little tales help stave off the madness <33

[world-of-wales]

Catherine's Royal Closet (28/∞) ♚

↬ High Waisted Sport Luxe Trousers

Catherine owns the High Waisted Sport Luxe Trousers from Jigsaw in navy blue. Often described as ‘puddle pants’, these pants were first worn by Catherine in 2018 during her visit to RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus along with Prince William.

Since then they have become one of her go to pieces from the brand having been worn by her on a number of occasions like - a visit to the Henry Fawcett Centre in 2019, during the Royal Train Tour of 2020, for a visit to Wolverhampton in 2021, to see the “Faberge in London: from romance to revolution" exhibition at the V&A Museum, at the Ukrainian Cultural Centre in 2022 and the latest for a visit to Windsor Foodshare along with William in 2023.

The trousers feature a wide waistband, belt loops and welt pockets. The fabric is woven from a soft, breathable viscose mix that contains a hint of stretch. They also appear to have a slightly flared shape

[princesscatherinemiddleton]

Seeing Kate in her pink Beulah London dress made me think about what you said on the podcast, how some dresses/gowns are stunning not simply because they're beautiful pieces of clothing but also because they're perfect for the occasion. I loved the outfit at Wimbledon, I think it's one of her best looks but at the V&A museum it felt a little bit meh, it no longer had a spark.

100% - a lot of my favourite Kate looks are looks I never want to see again because they were so perfect the first time. Or we have seen them again and they weren't as good. The teal Jenny Packham gown is always a good example of this, plus her 2019 Christmas day coat or even the threepeat of her Roksanda Ilinčić lilac dress - the first time it was fine, the second time it was kind of bad, and the third time it was perfect!

[zeus-japonicus]

Hiya Nemo, I'm writing a paper on repatriation and restitution in museums for my anthro class, and the last below decks episode was super cool and informative, I will definitely be using it as a source! Do you have any recommendations for further reading? Also I freaking adore trice forgotten, thanks for all you do :)

Hello friend!

Very glad to be helpful, and thank you for adoring the show ;;

Below the cut are some of the sources we've either talked about on the show or I've used - not all will be particularly useful to you, so (not to like. manslplain how to do research but) please do skim the list, and hopefully you'll have access to some through your library.

Chakrabarti, Pratik. “Global Heritage of British Museums”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXBrY8GPsPo  

Das, Subira and Lowe, Miranda. “Nature Read in Black and White: decolonial approaches to interpreting natural history collections”. Journal of Natural Science Collections, Volume 6, 4 - 14. Accessed 26/09/20. http://www.natsca.org/article/2509  

Feiger, Leah. “Colonizers Stole Africa's Art; This Man Is Taking It Back”. Vice. September 22, 2020. Accessed 26/09/20 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/y3z77y/a-real-life-killmonger-is-trying-to-decolonize-european-museums  

“Guidance for the Care of Human Remains in Museums”. November 2019. Accessed 20/02/21. https://www.britishmuseum.org/sites/default/files/2019-11/DCMS-Guide_0.pdf  

Hicks, Dan. The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution. Pluto Press. 2020.  

Imbler, Sabrina. “In London, Natural History Museums Confront Their Colonial Histories”. Atlas Obscura. October 14, 2019. Accessed 26/09/2020. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/decolonizing-natural-history-museum   

"Introducing our Decolonisation Working Group": https://www.museumsassociation.org/campaigns/decolonising-museums/decolonising-practice/ 

Kassim, Sumaya. “The Museum Will not be Decolonised.” Media Diversified. November 15, 2017. Accessed 26/09/2020. https://mediadiversified.org/2017/11/15/the-museum-will-not-be-decolonised/  

McClintock, Anne. Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Colonial Contest. Routledge. 1995.  

Redman, Samuel J., Bone Rooms: from scientific racism to human prehistory in museums. Harvard University Press. 2016. 

[dd20century]

Mary Quant Designer of 1960s Iconic Mini-skirt Dies

Last month the fashion industry lost another legendary designer; Mary Quant died at her home in Surrey, England on April 13, 2023. Ms. Quant was often referred to as "the mother of the mini-skirt." Her fashions were marketed at the new youth culture, breaking with Dior's "New Look" of the earlier decade. It's been debated, however, whether Quant really did invent the mini-skirt, as short dresses for women had been introduced in the 1920s by designers like Coco Chanel. What Quant did was raise hemline heights to shorter lengths and in the process become the garment that defined the 1960s.

In 2019 the V&A Museum in London held a perspective of her work "Introducing Mary Quant." Filmmaker Sadie Frost produced a documentary "Quant" about the designer in 2021. View film's the trailer.

Mary Quant, Turtleneck Sweater and mini-dress, (1965). Image source.

[seroquelled]

recurring dreams masterpost

warning ROUGH stuff but we stay silly

2012- 2013 | frequency approx 3-4 times monthly tapering to once everh couple months over the course of a year

being in london (sherlock phase..... christ alive) walking along the river eventually making it to a bridge and nearly being hit by multiple cars but everu time i should be its like they clip through me. v cold v windy. crawling my way up the metal of the arches somehow n making it allcthe way to the top. sitting up there bullet - hollywood undead style eventually helicopters show up ?? cops below n shit yelling at me and i jump every time but when i do its like im falling in super slow motion like the air is holding me up and get so frustrated because all i want to do is hit the water . i wake up before i make it down every time

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this one is the roughest cw infant death , csa jic

2016 - current | like once every few months in 2016, big gap in 2017, once or twice in 2018, maybe once a year if that 2019-2020, constantly for like three months in a row early 2021, barely at all 2022, and then recently twice at the beginning of this year

this ones at least a little different most times with some outlier variants. the consistencies are that im always in a big line of people sort of like an airport crossed w a museum but the room is huge and empty with a corridor at the end that the line disappears into and snakes away into a maze like hallways where i can never see the end. im between the ages of 4-6 in a group of adults i dont recognize, one of which has a stroller w an infant, nobody is speaking but the baby is babbling and im feeling very impatient but i dont say anything. stand there for what feels like forever and without saying anything the adult w the stroller undresses and starts sodomizing the infant and i stand there and cant do anything. eventtually i realize i have to do something and i run away and try to get the attention of the people in the line in front of me, moving from group to group but im crying so much i cant explain whats happening but i dont understand why nobody is doing anything. this is basically it. there are other versions where i go back and everyone is gone and the baby is dead or i go back and am screamed at and beaten for running away (but not for saying anything i guess? because i couldnt) but sometimes i dont go back at all and it just ends

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2015, 2020 | ive only had this one a handful of times total, mostly in 2015 but then a couple times after i told isaac abt it and havent had it since

im at a massive outdoor rave/party w many stages, its mostly open grass but with some areas of concrete and the lit areas are primarily around the concrete brick bathrooms. no idea who i went there with but i know it was with a big group of older people and that im no older than 15 in the dream. i wander away and am having a nice time weaving through groups of people away from the stages where i can hear music in the background. lots of trash everywhere, blankets crumpled up where people have left them or are sitting on them drinking. picking up half drank or empty beer cans getting drunk on the dregs. being mad that i cant find any drugs to do and that people wont give me any. at some point i realize im being followed and that turns into being chased and it gets increasingly more difficult not to trip over people on the ground and everyone is annoyed that im trying to get around them. get caught behind one of the bathrooms and pushed onto the dead grass, punched in the face and i can tell my nose is bleeding bc i can taste it, the guy chasing me pulls my pants off and one of the people standing around watching takes them. at this point my perspective switches from mine to my assailant and i watch him rape me and then drag me over to the bathroom sidewalk/area thing and bash my head against the concrete 😵‍💫😬 sheesh!

t.b.c someday when i remember the other ones better

edit: these are also all dreams that i wrote in my dream journal assigned to me by my psychology professor out of spite bc i was like i dont want to write my dreams they suck and she was like Well You Have To and when i turned it in after like 3 weeks of being late she just wrote 'Yikes! :(' in the margins LMFAO

[busaccagallery]

Almost impossible to authenticate. The art of marketing to rich greedy fools. Absolute genius!

Is it true you had the rarest painting in the world by the greatest artist in the world? In one of the most hyped-up marketing campaigns ever seen in the auction world, the numbers ultimately proved all involved wrong. In an ingenious move by Christie’s, the painting was branded the “male Mona Lisa,” drawing a parallel between Salvator Mundi and Leonardo’s most famous portrait. A slick promotional video didn’t show the painting at all, instead focusing on the enraptured faces of viewers, including actor and art collector Leonardo DiCaprio. The auction house’s strategy was to “convince the potential buyer that you’re now buying a celebrity that will play into the power and prestige of your acquisition. And it worked: “It was the trophy to end all trophies!

This painting was sold just like selling a car that has been in an accident! Fixed-up repaired and put back into the collection market.

If the Louvre says it’s an autograph of Leonardo that is a big deal. It’s not just art history it’s world politics. The Louvre came so close to showing the painting that it even produced a book on its technical findings.

The mystery is sort of solved but not really. Compelling questions about restoration expertise (and the associated responsibilities) authenticity and the madness and opacity of the international market. Nobody at the time could predict, The purchase marked the beginning of the painting’s unlikely ascent into the stratosphere.

In 2011 the work went on view at the museum with a wall label identifying it as a rediscovered Leonardo—a move that remains controversial a decade later.

Supposedly all the experts. All involved. Basically, everyone had agreed that the painting was indeed by Leonardo. Expectations are dangerous because you end up by seeing what you want to see. Everybody wanted it to be a Leonardo so everybody took the most optimistic view of it as they could as a Leonardo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNQumby11lc

The story starts when the painting was discovered in 2005 at a small New Orleans auction house.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0lXLGgQjYY&t=126s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MFL6RDfCms

One expert convincing himself that it is real!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIUP8l7HUWI

Salvator Mundi: Saudi-owned $450m painting is not a Da Vinci museum says the Saudi prince bought the painting for $450m in 2017 but its authenticity has been downgraded by the Prado in Madrid. it was sold by Christie’s auction house as a fully authenticated work by the Italian renaissance polymath.

Vincent Delieuvin curator of the Louvre’s Da Vinci exhibition in 2019 said the $450m work had “details of surprisingly poor quality!

Questions over attribution of Jesus painting, the most expensive ever sold at auction.

The painting has not been exhibited in public, intensifying a mystery about its ownership and whereabouts, and deepening the debate about its authenticity. Many art experts are split over whether the painting is genuine!

Experts come to the conclusion details are of surprisingly poor quality!

The “Salvator Mundi,” said to be painted by Leonardo da Vinci and sold for a record-setting $450 million to a buyer reportedly on behalf of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has recently been downgraded by curators at the Prado.

The whereabouts of the painting are currently unknown!

It is to be hoped that a future permanent display of the work will allow it to be reanalyzed with greater objectivity.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/sold-for-450m-to-saudi-prince-salvator-mundi-likely-not-painted-by-leonardo/

Is it 100 percent pure Leonardo da Vinci or is it another story?

It was rediscovered, restored, and included in a major Leonardo exhibition at the National Gallery, London, in 2011–2012.

last bid jumped from $370 million to $400 million is indicative of just how amateurish and unorthodox the process was that characterized this entire enterprise.

The painting was allegedly gifted / pledged as a loan.

MBS’s refusal to lend the work since such a reputational downgrade would diminish the value substantially.

London’s National Gallery last month asked if it could cite her as a supporter of Salvator Mundi‘s authenticity—which, seven years after the museum’s Leonardo blockbuster, is a peculiar move at the least, considering this late stage of events. Could the National Gallery be trying to cover its tracks after making the unprecedented move of installing the work in its exhibition—and thereby conferring the National’s imprimatur—without definitive proof the work was by Leonardo?

The London museum’s quandary shows the pitfalls of putting box-office interests above institutional ethics and standard professional practices in the name of blockbuster mongering. They’d make a nice defendant in any lawsuit if MBS seeks a refund in whole or part from Christie’s et.

How do you lose a $450 million newly discovered Leonardo?

Apparently, the work was whisked away in the middle of the night on MBS’s plane and relocated to his yacht, the Serene. What harm could the occasional splash of seawater do?

Wall Street Journal alleged that the world’s most expensive painting had been endangered after having been kept on Mohammed bin Salman’s $600m superyacht.

Saudi Arabia’s impending push into the world of art and entertainment. To add to their penchant for all things bling, the Saudi regime has made a sizable investment into the back catalog of the greatest works of known ART.

The headlong shopping spree for international cultural capital—and global-tourism fodder—that is currently taking place across the region has spurred an art arms race!

https://news.artnet.com/opinion/kenny-schachter-on-the-missing-salvator-mundi-1565674

https://news.artnet.com/market/lost-leonardo-salvator-mundi-documentary-2003257

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-arabia-salvator-mundi-not-da-vinci-museum

#Art #Collections #ArtCollections #RareCollections #CrazyArt #ArtGreed

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Some logos are so successful that their very ubiquity means we hardly notice them at all, at least on a conscious level – think the Nike Swoosh or McDonald’s Golden Arches.

Meanwhile, other logos have become part of the psychogeographic wallpaper of a particular place – whether they represent a corporate brand or a public service, they instantly evoke its unique atmosphere wherever they’re deployed.

The UK capital has its fair share of such iconic symbols and whether you’re launching your own enterprise – maybe using a logo maker like on Designhill – or simply interested in the aesthetics of branding, some of them are worth a second look.

With that in mind, here are three famous London logos designed for life.

London Transport Logo

The distinctive London Transport roundel with its red circle and blue bar looks as fresh today as it did when it was first unleashed on the public way back in 1908.

It’s an abstract adaptation of a 1905 London General Omnibus Company winged wheel logo and used a red disc rather than a circle in its first form.

It’s changed little since the red circle was adopted in the 1920s and, like the stylised London Underground map it’s often matched with, has become an internationally recognised symbol of the city itself.

Pro tip: grab official merchandise at the London Transport Museum shop – gift heaven

HP Sauce Logo

HP (Houses of Parliament) Sauce is Britain’s most popular brown sauce and the iconic Elizabeth Tower which houses the Big Ben bell has graced its bottles since it was launched in 1903.

According to the official website, 28 million bottles are sold each year, which would reach the same height as 6189 Houses of Parliament if stacked up.

The bottle currently sports a quirky (temporary) redesign to reflect the scaffolding that will surround the tower until 2021.

Pro tip: Eater’s London’s greatest bacon sarnies let you enjoy a match made in saucy heaven.

V&A Museum logo

While the museum’s eclectic collections are regularly refreshed, the logo has undergone no substantive alterations since its adoption, embodying a classy consistency that many a rival admires.

This London logo is an excellent example of subtle simplicity – definitely a modern classic.

Pro tip: specialist Kleen-Tex has logo mats for any type of enterprise.

These three famous logos perfectly exemplify many of the things that make this metropolis so special – from a sense of speed and flux to terrific taste and fine tradition. Look out for more legendary logos the next time you’re traversing London town.

unit, T. editorial (2019). Designs for life: Three famous London logos. [online] The Upcoming. Available at: https://www.theupcoming.co.uk/2019/12/18/designs-for-life-three-famous-london-logos/ [Accessed 11 Mar. 2024]. ‌

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Christopher Le Brun 

“Colour is extremely mysterious. Its effect on us, emotionally, is very mysterious, and painting is the finest medium to deploy colour”– Christopher Le Brun

Christopher Le Brun is one of the leading British painters of his generation, celebrated internationally since the 1980s, making both figurative and abstract work in painting, sculpture and print. He was an instrumental public figure in his role as President of the Royal Academy of Arts in London from 2011 to 2019. He was awarded a Knighthood (Knight Bachelor) for services to the Arts in the 2021 New Year Honours. 

Le Brun employs a mastery of touch and colour alongside a profound understanding of art history and a wide range of visual, musical and literary sources. He has remained consistent in adhering to what he feels to be the essential poetry and pleasure of painting for its own sake, led by intuition and visual imagination and resistant to external justification. 

His interest in the formal possibilities of painting has led recently to the development of modular compositions from single pieces through to large and highly complex canvases, triptychs and monumental multipart paintings, extending the limits of abstract pictorial composition. A heightened awareness of the physicality of the painting process with its dramatic tension between revealing and covering, has been a central feature of his work that unites all its phases whether abstract or figurative. His work can be found in museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Tate, the V&A and the British Museum, London; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. He is represented by Lisson Gallery, London and Albertz Benda, New York. 

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1. Christopher Le Brun, ‘Making Light’, 2021.

2. Christopher Le Brun, detail.

3. Christopher Le Brun, ‘Woodlines’ in the artist’s studio.

4. Christopher Le Brun, Prints in the artist’s studio.

5. The artist Sir Christopher Le Brun in his studio.

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UK PALS! If you don't know, I'm coming over for @thoughtbubblefestival in a few weeks. It's been since 2019 since I was in the UK & I can't wait to return. Prepare ye the way of the Jimmy! - For London mates (see what I did there?): I'll be arriving Saturday night on November 5th. I'm in London til the following Wednesday morning November 9th. I've been slowly making plans and I think what's best is maybe doing an eats/drinks hang Sunday (6th)and/or Monday (7th) night in London. I have time on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday afternoons as well if people wanted to hit a museum (Some exhibits at V&A I want to check). - My return flight has ALREADY been pushed back to later from 1pm to 9pm. I'm going to try to see if I can get an earlier flight, but if not...I'll have another day in London to hang. Stay tuned. - Holla atcha boy if you're free. Love to see you! #ReturnOfTheJimmy https://www.instagram.com/p/CkDU6gduK_l/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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“The move marks another victory for the campaign group Sackler Pain, which staged a dramatic public protest at the gallery in November 2019. The group, led by the American artist Nan Goldin, argued that donations from members of the family that founded the now bankrupt Purdue Pharma, makers of the addictive OxyContin painkiller, were a stain on those cultural institutions that accepted them. The V&A follows the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery and the British Museum as cultural organisations which have removed the Sackler name from prominent wings and galleries that were built with financial support from family members or their charitable foundations.”