The biggest art show of the year has been thrown into darkness
INTERNATIONAL – It was supposed to be the biggest show of the year. More than 70,000 people bought tickets to the Scuderie del Quirinale Museum’s Raphael show, which was to celebrate the 500-year centennial of the artist’s death with more than 200 works of art.
People around the world booked bucket-list trips to see the exhibition. The museum advertised heavily—billboards and banners and posters went up around the city—and when it opened on March 5, the international press reviewed it breathlessly.
Now the galleries of the Scuderie are silent and dark, says Mario De Simoni, the president of Ales SpA, the organization that runs the museum, in a statement provided to Bloomberg.
Source: iol.co.za
