After a three-month run at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the blockbuster exhibition “Raphael: Sublime Poetry” will close on Sunday. The efforts required to make it happen were formidable, and involved loans from about 60 public institutions, as Artnet columnist Katya Kazakina reported. When it opened, Artnet’s national art critic, Ben Davis, wrote that it offers the chance to witness “the entire arc of an ideal of beauty being born, perfected, and mutating into something else.” It will likely be decades before anyone tries to mount a Raphael show with this level of ambition.
In the days before the exhibition’s end, the eagle-eyed, Detroit-based painter Nolan Simon made a final visit. Simon, who shows in New York with 47 Canal, has a penchant for sharing in-depth tours of museum shows on Instagram. Below, he contributed a tour to Artnet.
Source: Exhibition - news.artnet.com
