{"id":369227,"date":"2026-04-08T08:39:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T08:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/369227\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T08:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T08:39:17","slug":"museum-acquisitions-round-up-andy-warhol-in-an-apron-a-solid-silver-relief-and-christos-luggage-rack-the-art-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/369227\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum acquisitions round-up: Andy Warhol in an apron, a solid-silver relief and Christo’s luggage rack – The Art Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andy Warhol in an apron with his Big Shot Polaroid camera in the Factory (1970s) by Ronnie Cutrone
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC<\/p>\n

More than 400 stereoscopic slides depicting Andy Warhol<\/a> and other figures inside the Factory have been donated to the Smithsonian\u2019s Archives of American Art<\/a> by James R. Hedges IV, a Los Angeles-based art dealer and collector. The slides, which create the illusion of 3D images, were taken by the artist Ronnie Cutrone (1948\u20132013), who joined Warhol\u2019s studio as an assistant in 1972. Cutrone soon began photographing Warhol and visitors to the Factory\u2014Georgia O\u2019Keeffe, Bruce Nauman, Debbie Harry, Mick Jagger and David Hockney among them. After Cutrone left Warhol\u2019s studio, he became a successful artist in his own right, his brightly coloured neo-Pop paintings depicting characters such as Donald Duck and Felix the Cat.<\/p>\n

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Courtesy Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg<\/p>\n

Lamentation of Christ (1786) by Luigi Valadier
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg<\/p>\n

This solid-silver relief, standing more than a metre tall, is believed to be the last known work by the virtuoso silversmith Luigi Valadier<\/a> (1726-85). Valadier was renowned in 18th-century Rome and beyond. Commissioned by royalty, aristocracy and popes, his ornate works traverse the Baroque, Rococo and Neo-Classical styles. This depiction of the Lamentation of Christ was a diplomatic gift from Pope Pius VI to Countess Palatine Maria Anna of Zweibr\u00fccken-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler (sister of the future King Maximilian I of Bavaria) in 1786, given \u201cout of spiritual kinship\u201d. Heike Zech, the deputy director general of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, calls this \u201ccourtly showpiece\u201d a \u201csignificant testament to European cultural history\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Eeva-Inkeri; \u00a9 1962 Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation<\/p>\n

Package on a Luggage Rack (1962) by Christo
Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Moderne de Paris<\/p>\n

Christo and Jeanne-Claude<\/a> had a special relationship with Paris. It was there that they met in 1958 and lived until 1964. The city also hosted numerous projects of theirs, including the wrapping of the Pont Neuf in 1985 and, posthumously, the Arc de Triomphe<\/a>\u2014which drew six million visitors in 2021. Now, the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation has donated 14 of the couple\u2019s works to the City of Paris and Paris Mus\u00e9es. Some go to the Mus\u00e9e Carnavalet-Histoire de Paris, and the remainder to the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Moderne de Paris<\/a>\u2014including this early Christo piece, Package on a Luggage Rack, which complements the museum\u2019s already substantial collection of New Realism works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andy Warhol in an apron with his Big Shot Polaroid camera in the Factory (1970s) by Ronnie CutroneArchives…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[16660,21748,193404,442,498,499,500,193402,501,156,193405,193403,114546,8793,12603,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-369227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-acquisitions","9":"tag-andy-warhol","10":"tag-archives-of-american-art","11":"tag-arts","12":"tag-arts-and-design","13":"tag-artsanddesign","14":"tag-artsdesign","15":"tag-christo","16":"tag-design","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-germanisches-nationalmuseum","19":"tag-luigi-valadier","20":"tag-musee-dart-moderne-de-la-ville-de-paris","21":"tag-museums","22":"tag-museums-heritage","23":"tag-new-zealand","24":"tag-newzealand","25":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}