Ruth Leon recommends… Where in the World – Frick – Mahogany
Ruth Leon recommendsWhere in the World – Frick – Mahogany
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In view of the sad news that the Frick is discontinuing their very popular Cocktails with a Curator series, I probably shouldn’t tell you that there are three final episodes which I’m hoarding to give you on the lean weeks when there’s not much coming out of the art world online.
Instead, the Frick has embarked on a new series called Where in The World, examining elements in their paintings. Here is the first one with the incomparable Aimee Ng, whom we have come to know well from the Cocktails series, talking about mahogany. I can’t say I have any particular interest in wood but, as always, I’m fascinated by what she has to say and, on this occasion, she’s talking about the wood which certain important painters, such as Rembrandt, used instead of canvas.
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mahogany? mahagonny!
A wood that a famous composer named an opera after too.