![]() Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) unites a classical portrayal of Christ with a shape that only exists in mathematical theory. Dalí’s floating cross is what Banchoff describes as “an unfolded four-dimensional cube”. In a 2012 lecture given at the Dalí Museum, Banchoff explains how the artist was trying to use “something from a three-dimensional world and take it beyond… The exercise of the whole thing was to do two perspectives at once – two superimposed crosses.”
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Lightning Strikes Twice: Another Lost Jacob Lawrence Surfaces![]() Peabody Essex show leads to ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ discovery of a missing painting.
One driving ambition curators at the Peabody Essex Museum had as they began assembling “Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle,” was that the landmark traveling exhibition would help uncover a handful of paintings that have fallen from public view in the decades since the original series of 30 works was last exhibited.
Curators realized part of that dream Wednesday, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where the exhibition is currently on view, added Panel 16 to the show after a Manhattan couple stepped forward with the painting they had quietly owned for more than half a century.
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