A destination painting or bucket list painting is a painting that in itself may inspire cultural tourism to a museum or other destination. [1] [2] [3] Often such a work would be considered a "masterpiece". A more general characterization would be destination art. [4]
Collections may adopt a policy to keep a destination painting permanently on location, where visitors can expect to see it, by preventing any loan to a travelling exhibition. [5] They may also compete to acquire a potential destination painting during an art auction. [1] [6]
Such paintings can lead to overtourism in parts of a museum where the work is displayed, leading to challenges in exhibit design. [7] [8] [2] [3] [9] [10] This overcrowding can be exacerbated by modern social media photography. [11] The tendency toward a crowded quick experience for major works has had a reaction in the more contemplative "slow art" movement. [12]
The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. Considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance, it has been described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world". The painting's novel qualities include the subject's enigmatic expression, the monumentality of the composition, the subtle modelling of forms, and the atmospheric illusionism.
Danaë is a painting by the Dutch artist Rembrandt, first painted in 1636, but later extensively reworked by Rembrandt, probably in the 1640s, and perhaps before 1643. Once part of Pierre Crozat's collection, it has been in the Hermitage Museum, in St. Petersburg, Russia since the 18th century.
The Brooklyn Rail is a publication and platform for the arts, culture, humanities, and politics. The Rail is based out of Brooklyn, New York. It features in-depth critical essays, fiction, poetry, as well as interviews with artists, critics, and curators, and reviews of art, music, dance, film, books, and theater.
Mór Lipót Herzog (1869-1934) was a Jewish Hungarian art collector, banker, and large estate owner whose art collection is the object of Holocaust-related restitution claims.
Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is one of the most recognizable and famous works of art in the world, and also one of the most replicated and reinterpreted. Mona Lisa replicas were already being painted during Leonardo's lifetime by his own students and contemporaries. Some are claimed to be the work of Leonardo himself, and remain disputed by scholars. Prominent 20th-century artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Salvador Dalí have also produced derivative works, manipulating Mona Lisa's image to suit their own aesthetic. Replicating Renaissance masterpieces continues to be a way for aspiring artists to perfect their painting techniques and prove their skills.
Nicole Eisenman is French-born American artist known for her oil paintings and sculptures. She has been awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship (1996), the Carnegie Prize (2013), and has thrice been included in the Whitney Biennial. On September 29, 2015, she won a MacArthur Fellowship award for "restoring the representation of the human form a cultural significance that had waned during the ascendancy of abstraction in the 20th century."
Eva Presenhuber is an Austria-born, Zürich-based art dealer, owner of Galerie Eva Presenhuber, based in Zürich, Switzerland and a second space in New York City.
Serge Becker is a Swiss creative director, nightlife and hospitality designer, and impresario. He is known for his irreverent approach to design, adventurous programming of venues, and a multicultural audience. Becker is part of a second wave of New York City restaurateurs, that incorporated nightlife and theatrical elements into their design driven venues. A tightly curated guest list, staff casting, styling, and expert music selection were essential elements to this generation of hospitality operators, in addition to the traditional culinary focus. Becker in particular is known for using vernacular design references and transforming previously “undesirable spaces and locations” with a Cinderella effect. Becker was dubbed a “Cultural Engineer” by André Balazs in the New York Times for his innovative creations and prescient timing.
Nancy Shaver is an American visual artist based in Jefferson, New York.
Parapivot is a commissioned installation by Alicja Kwade at the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The installation consists of two sculptures, Parapivot I and Parapivot II, each consisting of multiple steel frames which hold polished stone balls.
The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute is a nonprofit research institute in San Francisco, California, with a focus on vision science and rehabilitation engineering. It was founded in 1959 by Arthur Jampolsky and Alan B. Scott, when some members of Stanford University's Ophthalmology Department elected to stay in San Francisco rather than move to Palo Alto.
Navina Najat Haidar is an art historian and curator, and currently serves as the chief curator of Islamic art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Maura Reilly is an associate professor of Art History and Museum Studies at Arizona State University. She is known for her work writing on women in art and curating art shows that emphasize women artists.
Strike MoMA is a movement to strike the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, targeting what its organizers describe as the "toxic philanthropy" of the museum's leadership. It has consisted of a series of 10 demonstrations organized over ten weeks, from April 9, 2021, through June 11.
Ruba Katrib is an American curator. She has been Curator at MoMA PS1 since 2017.
Eleonore Stiasny also known as Nora Stiasny née Zuckerkandl was an Austrian Jewish art collector murdered in the Holocaust.