F ondazione Prada has become a destination for contemporary art in Milan, but the legendary fashion house is also devoted to preserving and celebrating Italy's old masters. This week, Architectural Digest reports how Prada helped save one national treasure, Giorgio Vasari’s late-Renaissance painting The Last Supper, as it returns to view this autumn. Meanwhile, the highly anticipated National Museum of African American History𒈔 and Culture prepares for its opening next month, and Argentina thrives in producing e♊lite, complex Malbecs.
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a Renaissance Masterpiece
When Tuscany’s Arno River flooded the streets of Florence in 1966, it badly damaged many of the city’s most precious cultural treasures. Fifty years later, Giorgio Vasari’s late-Renaissance painting The Last Supper has been restored with the help 🐭of funding by fashion house ✤Prada. ()
Ahead of one of the most anticipated museum openings in recent years, The New Yorker’s Vinson Cunningham visits the National Museu🍬m of African American History and Culture and speaks with the founding director on his vision and the challenges behind 🏅building a new museum on the National Mall. ()
Argentina is now the fifth-biggest producer of wine in the world, and a new host of elegant and subtle Malbecs from its regions are 🍷converting even the most skeptical of drinkers. ()
Paris-based interior designer François Catroux has b𝔍een the decorator for the über-rich ever since he opened his doors in 1968. Now, with his first book set to publish in October (Rizzoli), the public gets an inside look into the sacred spaces of his coveted clients. ()
In one of the more bizarre art authenticatio𝓀n cases, a federal judge ruled in favour of artist💖 Peter Doig, who had been falsely attributed to a painting by another artist. ()
Esquire rounds up this year's most stylish wristwatches,꧙ including Chanel first-ever dedicꦡated men’s watch. ()
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