In 2008, Christopher Niquet, a well-known French stylist, spotted the 1960s supermodel Peggy Moffit in a Beverly Hills restaurant. Never an autograph chaser, he nonetheless felt compelled to ask for hers. This candid moment ignited an obsessive, ongoing quest. Niquet began to reach out to the models ...
Michelangelo Buonarroti was born in 1475 at Caprese, in Tuscany. He was apprenticed to Domenico Ghirlandaio in 1488, when he was 13, and worked continuously until six days before his death. In 1489, Michelangelo was summoned to the court of Lorenzo de'Medici, where he learnt the technical skills essential ...
This volume presents Mark Dion's work on "digs" he has been concerned with in Italy, Switzerland, and London. The book provides a preface to each of project by the artist. A text frames his ongoing projects. Further texts from the lecture programme in the Tate Gallery elucidate the artist's work.
