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Saul Steinberg: Illuminations


dal sito della Morgan Library & Museum* di New York: “Saul Steinberg (1914–1999), an artist whose magic lit up the pages and covers of The New Yorker for six decades, is the subject of a major retrospective exhibition on view at The Morgan Library & Museum. Saul Steinberg: Illuminations features more than one hundred drawings, printed items, and sculptural assemblages by the artist, whom many regard as not only a comic genius but among the greatest draftsmen of the modern era. The exhibition is the first full-scale review of his career and was organized by the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College”.

* “The Morgan Library & Museum, occupying a newly enlarged, midtown Manhattan campus designed by renowned architect Renzo Piano, houses one of the world's greatest collections of artistic, literary, musical, and historical works. Included in its holdings are original scores of Mozart and Beethoven, drawings by Rembrandt and Rubens, medieval and Renaissance works, three Gutenberg Bibles, literary manuscripts of Dickens and Twain, and five-thousand-year-old Near Eastern carvings”.

Lo so, NY non è qui dietro; ma con tanti low-cost, non dovete neanche portarvi in cabina liquidi, ormai. E se proprio non vi va di andare nella Grande Mela, nel 2008, la mostra viene in Europa (Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Parigi, e Kunsthaus, Zurigo; e una terza tappa che ancor non si sa): pazientate. Ma già che ci siete, date intanto un’occhiata al sito di The Saul Steinberg Foundation.