Tag: Michael Daley
Michael Daley: Michael Daley revisits the catastrophic restoration of Michelangelo’s Sistine Ceiling
Michael Daley: Selling a Leonardo with Oomph
Michael Daley Questions proliferate on the disappeared $450 million Leonardo Salvator Mundi. Where is it? Who owns it? Who still believes it a Leonardo? Will it be exhibited this year at the Paris Louvre’s big Leonardo exhibition, as promised? Can it be true, as an artnet blogger now claims (on the claimed say-so of “two… Continue reading Michael Daley: Selling a Leonardo with Oomph
Michael Daley: A Life Drawing
Michael Daley Fans of Tacita Dean will be delighted to learn that she is having yet another exhibition, this time at the Royal Academy… And it’s well up to her usual standard. This time she is “exploring the genre of landscape in the broadest sense.” Well, broad is the word. She’s blown up a number… Continue reading Michael Daley: A Life Drawing
The spin of art
Michael Daley describes how the main players in State Art have taken spin to a new level. Many people remain in awe at the legendary manipulative means by which the political spinmaster, Alastair Campbell, delivered to successive New Labour governments the media coverage they craved. What is not sufficiently appreciated is that compared with art… Continue reading The spin of art