FAX ART

An “electronic event” Wednesday marked the 320th anniversary of the death of Rembrandt, as copies of a Rembrandt angel flew around the world via fax.

American artist Max Alexenberg, who was behind the stunt, said, “Rembrandt would have liked this,” since the master himself was something of a technology buff and used the latest equipment and techniques then available.

A computer copy of “Angel Announcing the Birth of Samson to Manoah,” a pen and ink drawing created 350 years ago, took off at 10:40 a.m. New York time and arrived instants later at the Rembrandt House in Amsterdam. About an hour after that, it was relayed to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem--chosen because Biblical pictures were Rembrandt’s major subject. From there, it was transmitted to the National University of Art and Music in Tokyo, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (the “city of the angels”) and Pratt Institute in Manhattan.