{"id":483376,"date":"2026-05-13T23:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/483376\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T23:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:28:10","slug":"nicole-kidman-visits-brancusis-danaide-at-christies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/483376\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicole Kidman visits Brancusi\u2019s Dana\u00efde at Christie&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"xts-rich-text__body-m\">\nNicole Kidman visited Christie\u2019s headquarters at Rockefeller Center in New York earlier this month. The reason for her visit? An encounter with Constantin Brancusi\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christies.com\/en\/lot\/lot-6585085?ldp_breadcrumb=back\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dana\u00efde<\/a>, the sculptor\u2019s golden portrait of his muse from 1913.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"xts-rich-text__body-m\">\nIn the new short video, set to David Bowie\u2019s Golden Years, Kidman, herself a lover and supporter of the arts, approaches the work in Christie\u2019s Rockefeller Center galleries. The turning world around her stops, and, feeling the beauty and history emanating from the golden sculpture, she is transported to a dream state, where she experiences joy, excitement, passion, curiosity and appreciation. Kidman embodies what engaging with art can feel like for anyone.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"xts-rich-text__body-m\">\nBrancusi\u2019s seminal work is part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christies.com\/en\/events\/s-i-newhouse-collection\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MASTERPIECES: The Private Collection of S.I. Newhouse<\/a>, on view to the public from 9 May to 18 May as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christies.com\/en\/stories\/walk-the-auction-may-2026-bddf14307a4548689158a9dcb5b4b673\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Christie\u2019s 20th and 21st Century Art Week exhibition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xts-rich-text__body-m\">\nThe story of Dana\u00efde stretches back to antiquity, from Greek mythology, to Ovid, to Auguste Rodin. Brancusi (who had previously apprenticed under sculptor Rodin) depicts a beautiful young Hungarian artist \u2014 Margit Pogany \u2014 the artist\u2019s muse. <\/p>\n<p class=\"xts-rich-text__body-m\">\nKidman \u2014 herself a statuesque icon, and muse to many \u2014 circles the Dana\u00efde, one of six created by Brancusi, enraptured by its timeless beauty. Its artistic alchemy is at once compelling and transformative. Dana\u00efde\u2019s pure and essential form is considered to be the birth of modern sculpture. <\/p>\n<p class=\"xts-rich-text__body-m\">\n\u2018Look at my sculptures until you manage to see them,\u2019\u202fBrancusi once said. The endless orb transfixes the gaze, the circular forms unending as they take the viewer on a journey around the sculpture. A beauty that is at once recognisable yet timeless, both from the present and epochs past. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicole Kidman visited Christie\u2019s headquarters at Rockefeller Center in New York earlier this month. 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