Visitors to the High now have the opportunity to name Leonardo da Vinci’s Sforza Horse, which is currently re-created on the High’s Sifly Piazza, for the chance to win airline tickets, a dinner for four, $100 to spend in the High’s Museum Shop, and a class trip to the High. To enter (no purchase necessary), visitors will fill out forms at kiosks in the museum’s lobby with their proposed name for the horse, the reason they chose that name, and their contact information. The contest will be judged by museum staff and a winner will be selected by March 1, 2010. 

The contest is being held in celebration of the exhibition, “Leonardo da Vinci: Hand of the Genius.” On view through February 21, 2010, the exhibition explores Leonardo’s profound interest in and influence on sculpture, featuring approximately 50 works, including more than 20 sketches and studies by Leonardo, some of which will be on view in the United States for the first time. The exhibition also features work by Donatello, Rubens, Verrocchio, and Rustici—including Rustici’s three monumental bronzes from the façade of the Baptistery in Florence that comprise “John the Baptist Preaching to a Levite and a Pharisee,” which was recently restored and has never left Florence. 

Also included are works from world-renowned collections, including that of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the Musée du Louvre, the British Museum , and the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence . The exhibition sheds new light on Leonardo’s seminal role in the development of Renaissance sculpture and the work of artists who followed him through an examination of the sculpture that Leonardo studied, the sketches and studies he created for his own sculptural projects (the majority of which were never realized), and his interactions with other Renaissance sculptors.

The Triennial of Chile 2009 proposed to the international scene “to explore the boundaries of art”. The President of the Republic of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, together with Ticio Escobar, Ministry of Culture of Paraguay and curator of the Triennial, opened the first version of this event at Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (MNBA) in Santiago. 

Triennial was a Bicentenario national program which included artists, curators, critics and intellectuals, local and foreign, exhibitions and different activities along the country. National visual arts will be celebrated with a decentralized model of action every three years. 

The meeting included exhibitions of Chilean and Latin American art, discussions, workshops of art, clinics, interventions and residencies of artists, cycles of video and intersection among native, popular and contemporary art, and political discussions about native matters. 

The Triennial of Chile is a decentralized model, different to the other biennials giving visibility to only one city. Seven cities of the country (Iquique, Antofagasta, Valparaíso, Santiago, Concepción, Temuco and Valdivia) were active cultural epicenters with three development zones: North, Center and South. 

The curator Escobar said, “This is a work related to the boundaries of art, where usual devices and the situation of the Chilean scene are questioned.” 

Among the main exhibitions: “Territorios de Estado, paisaje y cartografía. Chile, siglo XIX”, curated by Roberto Amigo (Argentina); “Lo impuro y lo contaminado 3: pulsiones (neo) barrocas en las rutas de Micromuseo”, curated by Gustavo Buntinx (Peru); “Una múltiple mirada, el Museo del barro”, curated by Aracy Amaral (Brazil); “Terremoto de Chile”, curated by Fernando Castro Flórez (Spain) of several proposals, languages and intentions of contemporary Chilean art; and “Arte Latinoamérica: Estados de Sitio”, curated by Gabriel Peluffo Linari (Uruguay). 

Activities like a cycle of art video, directed by Mónica Carballas (Spain) and a program of international colloquiums, directed by the prestigious Chilean editor Nelly Richard and the participation of prominent intellectuals. 

This Triennial is a net device where artists and Chilean entities have the possibility of developing bonds with different actors to revitalize the scenes and place our artists inside international circuits.