‘Light’ to shine in Music City
NASHVILLE, Tenn. » Renowned artist Bruce Munro’s lighting structures will be displayed at an exhibition called "Light" at Nashville’s Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art.
There will be 10 large-scale outdoor and indoor installations as well as indoor sculptures on exhibit May 24 to Nov. 10. Four of the installations have not been shown in the U.S.
The works include hundreds of miles of glowing optic fiber that will light up the structures placed in the gardens.
The project is only the second by Munro in the U.S. In 2012 he debuted "Light" at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pa.
The exhibition this summer will include three entirely new installations.
‘David-Apollo’ stands tall in D.C.
WASHINGTON » Italy’s foreign minister opened a yearlong celebration of Italian culture in 30 U.S. cities with a rare display of Michelangelo’s "David-Apollo" at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
Minister Giulio Terzi di Sant’ Agata helped unveil the sculpture Wednesday before it went on view Thursday at the museum. The sculpture, from the year 1530, is on loan from the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence. It will only be shown in Washington.
The sculpture was last shown in the U.S. capital in 1949 when it drew nearly 800,000 visitors. It was also a centerpiece for those who attended President Harry Truman’s inaugural reception at the gallery.
This time it will be on view through March 3, to include crowds attending the inauguration of President Barack Obama.
Aspen reopens mobile ‘bubbly’ bar
ASPEN, Colo. » A traveling champagne bar that debuted on Aspen Mountain last season is back after county officials signed off on renewing the pop-up bubbly bar.
The Aspen Times reported Wednesday that Pitkin County commissioners have cleared Aspen Skiing Co. to revive the mobile champagne bar. Skico is using an "optional premises" provision of its liquor license for the champagne bar.
The champagne bar consists of tables set up at sunny spots on the mountain. Skico plans to set up the bar again for spring skiing, starting on Presidents Day weekend, but it did uncork the bar for opening day this winter, given the unseasonably high temperatures.
The bar operated on weekends last season, selling small, snow-chilled flutes of Veuve Clicquot for $15 each.
