A new book of photographs of Michelangelo’s sculptures costs $155,000 and has a cover sculpted in marble.
I don’t get invited to many book launches but i suspect this isn’t typical: “…an hourlong spectacle that included dozens of costumed dancers, a string quartet playing from a stage suspended in midair, suckling pigs roasted over a pit, a fake snowfall and a foppishly dressed acrobat walking Spiderman-style up the facade of San Petronio, the city’s cathedral.”
NYT article and slide show (from last spring) available here.
CBC article reporting the book’s recent arrival and display (starting next Tuesday) at the NYPL.
Happy Thanksgiving.