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A stolen painting by Camille Pissarro. In 2000, Jonathan Petropoulos became involved in a search for a stolen painting by Camille Pissarro. Jonathan Petropoulos via The New York Times.
by Nina Siegal
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- By the late 1990s, most of the Nazi art experts who helped loot European Jews were either dead or living quiet lives under the radar. Not so Bruno Lohse, who served as the art agent to Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, Hitlers right-hand man. In 1998, Jonathan Petropoulos, a European history professor at Claremont McKenna College in California, met Lohse in Munich. An effete, imperious figure standing 6-foot-4 and weighing over 300 pounds at the time, Lohse, who had inextinguishable self-importance, as Petropoulos writes, welcomed the chance to regale the American scholar with his war stories. Over the next nine years, they met more than two dozen times. Lohse would often pull out a box of old photographs and mementos, allowing Petropoulos to peer over his shoulder and to pepper him with questions. When Lohse died in 2007 at 96, he bequeathed that box to Petropoulos, who used it as source material for his new book, Görings Man in Paris: The Story of a Nazi A ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Join Artemis Gallery for their first Timed Marketplace Auction of 2021 on Mon, Jan 25, 2021 11:00 AM GMT-6. The sale features fabulously priced clearance items and newly listed items at pricing perfect for dealers or collectors. In this image: 20th C. British 18th Hussars Sable Busby w/ Case. Estimate $3,200 - $4,800.
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| Trump pardons Hillel Nahmad, Madison Avenue art dealer | | Kasmin opens an exhibition of twenty-two monolithic sculptures spanning from 900 A.D. to 2019 | | Larry King, breezy interviewer of the famous and infamous, dies at 87 |
Hillel Nahmad, left, known as Helly, leaves a federal courthouse in New York, April 19, 2013. Robert Stolarik/The New York Times.
by Sarah Bahr
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In one of his final gestures before leaving office, President Donald Trump pardoned one of New Yorks best-known art dealers, Hillel Nahmad, known as Helly, a member of a wealthy, influential family of art collectors who has been a fixture in auction houses for decades. Nahmad had served five months in federal prison in 2014 after pleading guilty to a charge that he had led a sports gambling ring. Investigators had said the ring had ties to Russian American organized crime figures, several of whom were also charged in the case. Nahmad did not respond to a request for comment on his pardon from Trump, who has been something of his neighbor in New York. Nahmad bought every unit on the 51st floor of Trump Tower in Manhattan starting almost two decades ago. Bloomberg reported in 2016 that he paid more than $18.4 million to amass the entire floor. Nahmads pardon was one of 143 pardons and commutations ... More | |
Marie Watt, Blanket Story: Indian Territories, Round Dance, Grandmother, 2016. Folded blankets, steel poles, wooden base, 102 x 33 1/2 x 34 inches, 259.1 x 85.1 x 86.4 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Kasmin Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Kasmin is presenting Between the Earth and Sky, an exhibition of twenty-two monolithic sculptures that brings together examples of the form spanning from 900 A.D. to 2019. The presentation demonstrates how stelae, herms, and columns have acted as repositories of meaning or markers of time and place across many cultures since prehistory, as well as the way in which the expressive possibilities of this format continue to resonate with sculptors working internationally today. Be they analogues for the human form, waypoints, sentinels, support structures, memorials or otherwise, their metaphorical and formal potency abides. Featured in the exhibition are artists Diana al-Hadid, Alma Allen, Huma Bhabha, JB Blunk, James Lee Byars, Saint Clair Cemin, Max Ernst, Vanessa German, Rachel Harrison, Robert Indiana, Isamu Noguchi, Beverly Pepper, Per Kirkeby, Ugo Rondinone, Tom Sachs, Bosco Sodi, and Marie Watt, as well ... More | |
In this file photo taken on September 22, 2011, TV Personality Larry King of the US answers journalists' questions during a press conference in Bratislava, Slovakia. SAMUEL KUBANI / AFP.
by Robert D. McFadden
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Larry King, who shot the breeze with presidents and psychics, movie stars and malefactors anyone with a story to tell or a pitch to make in a half-century on radio and television, including 25 years as the host of CNNs globally popular Larry King Live, died Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 87. Ora Media, which King co-founded in 2012, confirmed the death in a statement posted on Kings own Twitter account and said he had died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The statement did not specify a cause of death, but King had recently been treated for COVID-19. In 2019, he was hospitalized for chest pains and said he had also suffered a stroke. A son of European immigrants who grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and never went to college, King began as a local radio interviewer and sportscaster in Florida in the 1950s and 60s, rose to prominence with an all-night coast-to-coast radio call-in show ... More |
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| MOCA marks 1-year anniversary of fire at archives with online exhibition on Google Arts & Culture | | Exhibition at Marc Straus presents a new body of work by Marie Watt | | 'Moulin Rouge!' was their ticket. Then 2020 happened. |
Outside the Museum of Chinese in America, shortly after a fire gutted the upper floors of 70 Mulberry Street, in New York, March 8, 2020. Jeenah Moon/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- Almost one year to the day when a 5-alarm fire nearly destroyed its nationally treasured collection of more than 85,000 historical artifacts, MOCA has launched a new partnership with Google to make hundreds of digitized images of objects, sculptures, letters, photos and videos from MOCAs collections available for free on the Google Arts & Culture digital platform to be viewed, studied and enjoyed by people near and far online and on its app, available for download on Android and iOS. Starting today, users of Google Arts & Culture will now be able to see a new MOCA virtual exhibition titled Trial by Fire: The Race to Save 200 Years of Chinese American History, available exclusively on the platform. Trial by Fire marks the one-year anniversary of a fire at 70 Mulberry Street that occurred on January ... More | |
Installation view.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marie Watt (b.1967, Seattle) is a citizen of the Seneca Nation, the largest of six Nations in the Iroquois Confederacy. Mythologies and history from her Native American heritage inform her process and are seamlessly interwoven in her art with commentary on international politics and pop culture references. Her layered points of influence are often reflected in her use of text elements featuring language drawn from Indigenous knowledge and Iroquois proto-feminism, the matriarchal structures of certain Native American tribes, the rise of social activism throughout the 20th century, and the anti-war and anti-hate content of 1960s and 1970s music- such as the Marvin Gaye song, Whats Going On. Messages of both longing and hope from the past that still resonate today. Some works in this exhibition, for the first time allude to the writing of Joy Harjo, the 23rd US Poet Laureate, and the first Native American named to the role. ... More | |
Danny Burstein as Harold Zidler in the musical "Moulin Rouge" at the Al Hirschfeld Theater in New York, June 12, 2019. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times.
by Michael Paulson
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- From a window in his Hells Kitchen apartment, theater director Alex Timbers can see the Moorish arcade adorning Broadways Al Hirschfeld Theater. For years, Timbers dreamed of working in the century-old house, and in the summer of 2019, he got the chance with Moulin Rouge!, a hotblooded musical about bohemian artists whose revelry is tragically disrupted by infectious disease. The show, adapted from Baz Luhrmanns 2001 film, was last seasons big swing it cost $28 million to bring to Broadway and it was shaping up to be a home run. Set in fin de siècle Paris but supercharged by 75 pop songs, it opened to a rave from The New York Times (This ones for the hedonists, exulted Ben Brantley), and it was regularly ... More |
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| Blum & Poe opens a solo exhibition of works by Paul Mogensen | | Mira Furlan, actress on 'Lost' and 'Babylon 5,' dies at 65 | | Theatre, cinema, concerts thrive in Madrid despite virus |
Paul Mogensen, no title, 2018 (detail). Stand oil and oil paint on canvas, 60 x 60 inches © Paul Mogensen, Courtesy of the artist, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo, and Karma, New York.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Blum & Poe is presenting a solo exhibition of works by New York-based artist Paul Mogensen, following the recent announcement of the gallerys co-representation of the artist with Karma. Presenting paintings dating back to the beginning of the artists career in the 1960s and recent works from the last decade, the exhibition also marks the artists first show in his hometown of Los Angeles in over forty years. Based on essential numerical sequences and ratios, Mogensen creates esoteric compositions that invite the viewer to make sense of the planar space. First conceiving a system and utilizing a mathematical formula, he allows the progression to dictate the composition. Mogensen prefers not to date or title his paintingswhile this can be read as a gesture foregrounding the timelessness ... More | |
From 1993 to 1998, Furlan starred in Babylon 5.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Mira Furlan, an actress best known for her roles on the fantastical TV series Babylon 5 and Lost, died at her home in Los Angeles on Wednesday. She was 65. The cause was complications of the West Nile virus, according to Chris Roe, her manager. From 1993 to 1998, Furlan starred in Babylon 5, a space opera that followed the relationships, politics, interspecies tensions and galactic conflicts aboard a United Nations-type space station in the mid-23rd century. She played Ambassador Delenn, representing the Minbari alien race on the space station. Delenn is a wonderful creation, a woman who must be a leader and must be strong, but who is also full of emotion and secrets, Furlan said in 1997. Furlan twice won a Sci-Fi Universe Award for best supporting actress for her work on the show, which also starred Bruce Boxleitner and Stephen Furst. She appeared in all 111 episodes and in two Babylon 5 TV movies. In 2004, she began playing ... More | |
Teatro Real director Ignacio Garcia-Belenguer speaks during an interview at the Teatro Real in Madrid on January 14, 2021. OSCAR DEL POZO / AFP.
by Marie Giffard
MADRID (AFP).- With entertainment venues shuttered across much of Europe, Spain stands out as a cultural oasis where people still go to the theatre and cinema or watch concerts despite soaring infection rates. "Having the chance to be here with you is a huge blessing and with all my heart I applaud the great efforts being made in this country to defend culture," Mexican tenor Javier Camarena told Madrid's Theatre Royal last week after going months without performing on stage. In the audience were 1,200 people in suits, fur coats and masks, often the FFP2 type, after having their temperature taken as part of a meticulous safety protocol. Following a months-long national lockdown at the start of the pandemic, Spain's cultural venues reopened in the summer operating with strict capacity limitations, well-spaced seating ... More |
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| CUE Art Foundation opens group exhibition 'Even there, there are stars' | | Contents of spectacular Aynhoe Park sell for double their estimate at Dreweatts | | Prompted by the pandemic, Opera Philadelphia innovates online |
Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski, Good Grief (Labyrinth), 2019.
NEW YORK, NY.- CUE Art Foundation is presenting Even there, there are stars, a group exhibition featuring Chitra Ganesh, Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski, Emily Oliveira, and Tuesday Smillie, organized by Allie/A.L. Rickard. Even there, there are stars celebrates visions and dreams of possible, and more just, futures arising in dialogue with visionary fiction, and explores pathways that might help us get there. These futurities are generated by and sustain queer and trans people, femmes, and people of color: those of us who have learned to live by and through our longings; those of us who were never meant to survive and do, by our collective resilience and our collective dreams. The work included in this exhibition, and the thoughts in the accompanying publication, take up these tactics to help us be bold, center pleasure, and stay connected and interdependent so as to be able to live guided by our wildest dreams of liberation. The exhibition featu ... More | |
The sale totalled £4.1 million against a pre-sale low estimate of £1.3 million.
LONDON.- There was much excitement from around the globe in the last few days, when the contents of the 17th century Grade I Palladian country house, Aynhoe Park in Oxfordshire, went under the hammer at Dreweatts. The auction, titled Aynhoe Park: The Celebration of a Modern Grand Tour took place in the form of two live auctions on Wednesday, January 20th & Thursday 21st, 2021 and an online auction on Friday, January 22, 2021. The collection, from the celebrated family home of James and Sophie Perkins, which has played host to celebrities from the music, film and fashion worlds, drew huge world-wide interest as expected, with spirited bidding online and on the telephones from across the UK, Europe, Asia and the US. Aynhoe Park was furnished with a vast collection of iconic objects and curiosities from the Perkins travels across the globe and featured artworks, books, sculpture, furniture, taxidermy, modern design and curiosities, which were e ... More | |
BON APPÃTIT! A Sweet Soirée.
PHILADELPHIA (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- What can an opera company actually do in a pandemic? Yes, some previously planned performances can be turned into livestreams, and broadcasts of past stagings can be made freely available if only to remind the public what its missing. But where some companies might be resigned to only that, Opera Philadelphia pluckily spent 2020 commissioning new work and launching its own streaming service. OperaPhila.tv, which debuted in October and is available as an app for major streaming devices, so far features just one vintage broadcast: an engaging 2015 production of Verdis La Traviata, featuring a then-rising soprano Lisette Oropesa. Everything else, including a new version of David T. Littles Soldier Songs that premieres Friday, has been produced during the pandemic. (Subscriptions for the season, which continues through May 31, cost $99, though individual titles are available to rent.) Compared with other U.S. ... More |
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Original work by nine contemporary artists featured on large-scale murals throughout New York City
NEW YORK, NY.- Orange Barrel Media, in partnership with gallery We Buy Gold, presents Walls for a Cause NYC, a multi-site public art project and corresponding online exhibition featuring original paintings by nine contemporary artists. The works are being displayed on OBMs prominent and large-scale outdoor wall spaces throughout Brooklyn and Manhattan and are being featured in an online exhibition by We Buy Gold titled On the Other Side of Something. A percentage from the sale of each artwork will be donated to Project EATS, a New York City-based non-profit community enterprise organization. Additionally, OBM is donating space on two walls to Project EATS to further promote the organizations work. The public murals are on view together beginning January 2021 and then displayed ... More
Edward Burns returns to Long Island with 'Bridge and Tunnel'
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Edward Burns has carved a distinctive path as an indie filmmaker in the quarter-century since he made a splash with his debut, The Brothers McMullen. He has consistently made movies for small ($250,000 for Looking for Kitty) to minuscule ($9,000 yes, you read that right for Newlyweds) budgets, and was experimenting with new distribution models even before the rise of streaming. In 2007, he made the first straight-to-iTunes movie, Purple Violets, and in 2010, he inaugurated Comcasts straight-to-VOD Indie Film Club with Nice Guy Johnny. Now, he sees a bright future for indie filmmakers I dont know if you can call us that anymore, but were independent-minded storytellers in streaming and premium cable. These are the perfect platforms, and its one of the most encouraging times for someone with ... More
Bob Avian, a choreographer of Broadway smashes, dies at 83
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Bob Avian, a choreographer, director and producer who was deeply involved in some of the biggest Broadway shows of the last 60 years, including with his frequent collaborator, Michael Bennett A Chorus Line, one of the longest-running musicals in history, died Thursday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He was 83. His husband, Peter Pileski, said through a spokesperson that the cause was cardiac arrest. Avian also choreographed the Broadway hits Miss Saigon (1991) and Sunset Boulevard (1994), among others, and directed a 2006 revival of A Chorus Line that ran on Broadway for almost two years, as well as productions of that show in London in 2013 and at New York City Center in 2018. He shared Tony Awards for choreography with Bennett for A Chorus Line (1975) and Ballroom (1978). It ... More
Jimmie Rodgers, who sang 'Honeycomb' and other hits, dies at 87
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Jimmie Rodgers, whose smooth voice straddled the line between pop and country and brought him a string of hits none bigger than his first record, Honeycomb, in 1957 died Monday in Palm Desert, California. He was 87. His daughter Michele Rodgers said that the cause was kidney disease and that he had also tested positive for COVID-19. Rodgers was a regular presence on the pop, country, R&B and easy listening charts for a decade after Honeycomb, with records that included Oh-Oh, Im Falling in Love Again (1958) and Child of Clay (1967), both of which were nominated for Grammy Awards. He might have continued that run of success but for an ugly incident in December 1967, when he was pulled over by a man who, he later said, was an off-duty Los Angeles police officer and beat ... More
Sudan cinema takes inspiration from revolution
CAIRO (AFP).- Sudanese filmmakers who celebrated the end of stifling restrictions following the ouster of autocrat Omar al-Bashir have won multiple international awards but are yet to enjoy the same recognition at home. Cinema languished in the North African country through three decades of authoritarian rule by Bashir. But Sudanese took to the streets to demand freedom, peace and social justice, and Bashir's ironfisted rule came to an end in a palace coup by the army in April 2019. "We started realising how much our society needs our dreams," said director Amjad Abou Alala. His 2019 film "You Will Die at Twenty" was both Sudan's first Oscar entry and the first Sudanese film broadcast on Netflix, winning prizes at international film festivals including Italy's Venice and Egypt's El Gouna. The film tells the story of a young man a mystic predicts will ... More
Museum of Nebraska Art opens 'Susan Knight: Core Sampling Magic'
KEARNEY, NE.- Inspired by water's physical and metaphysical powers to unite, circulate, and sustain, Omaha-based artist Susan Knight visually translates water issues into two and three dimensions. Knight worked for years as a figurative painter using photographs for reference to capture realistic detail in her work. In 2002 she participated in an exhibition about rivers. "I had no interest in painting a landscape," she said, "but I knew I could cut a map of the river I grew up on." Inspired by a display of architectural origami she had seen Knight was impressed with what could be done by simply cutting paper. Knights site-specific installation Core Sampling Magic currently on view at MONA, is comprised of eighty components. Developed over the last four years, Knight uses a laborious hand cutting technique to create individual elements ... More
Shannon's announces highlights included in the Winter Online Fine Art auction
MILFORD, CONN.- Shannons Fine Art Auctioneers will host its first online auction of the year on Thursday, January 28th at 2 pm Eastern time. The sale includes 123 lots of American and European art from the 19th and early 20th centuries, Modern and Contemporary art, fine prints, sculpture and drawings. Bidding is available by absentee and online through Invaluable.com. Leading the auction is a work on paper by Connecticut-born artist Sol Lewitt. The painting, titled Irregular Form, has excellent provenance and is in perfect condition. Visitors to the gallery will appreciate seeing this work in person, as the effects of light change the color and visibility of the shapes in the overall form (est. $12,000-$18,000). Another visual gem is a Hannes Beckmann abstract. The work appears concave and convex at the same time, creating an optical illusion that ... More
London 2012 Summer Olympics Gold Medal sold for more than $73,000 at auction
BOSTON, MASS.- An Olympic Gold Medal awarded to Cuban shooter Leuris Pupo during the London 2012 Summer Olympics sold for $73,205, according to Boston-based RR Auction. Pupo's tenacity and perseverance finally paid off after four consecutive Summer Games. His first Olympic appearance came at the 2000 Summer Olympics held in Sydney, where he finished tied for ninth in the men's 25-meter rapid fire pistol. He competed in the same event at the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics, and then again at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics, where, in both competitions, he finished seventh. After 12 years of Olympic frustration, Pupo's aim was true at London's Royal Artillery Barracks, securing the gold medal by outpointing the field with a final tally of 34 points. "Any winner's medals from more recent Olympic Games are extremely scarce and sought-after, ... More
Nils Stærk presents an exhibition of works by Jone Kvie
COPENHAGEN.- There is 2,099 km between Naples and the north-western district of Copenhagen a twenty-two hour journey for an able driver. But a rock would require as many million years to travel the same distance to the gallery spaces in Copenhagen. Rocks operate with their own particular chronology, which is why working them up artistically always ends as a permanent monument to the impermanence of civilisation. Contrary to rocks which, at their own sedimentary speed, are constantly on the move, you and I are definitely here just now. It can be an overwhelming experience to be faced with nature and equally hard to describe the experience associated with it. In the same way, it takes time to take in the various elements of Jone Kvies latest exhibition. The point of departure for his new works is a metamorphosed encounter between geology, ... More
Israeli artist paints 120 shades of Trump
HAIFA (AFP).- The face is obscure and grim, but the blonde comb-over and tie leave no doubt that the image carpeting the studio of Israeli painter Iddo Markus is that of Donald Trump. "Let's start by saying that I don't like him," the voluble artist stressed. Markus, with his short beard and piercing black eyes, said he was nonetheless fascinated by the now "tragic figure". The walls and floor of his studio in the northern port city of Haifa are packed with portraits of the former American president. When the billionaire presented his candidacy for the 2016 presidential election, the Israeli artist said he "couldn't believe it". Then, when Trump was eventually elected, he said he was terrified, even "repulsed" by the Republican's "way of treating people and minorities". But he could not tear his eyes from the man with the "orange face and yellow hair", ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Robert Motherwell was born January 24, 1915. Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 - July 16, 1991) was an American painter, printmaker, and editor. He was one of the youngest of the New York School (a phrase he coined), which also included Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko. In this image: Robert Motherwell, The Hotel Corridor, 1950. Oil on masonite, 44 x 55 inches, 111.8 x 139.7 cm. © Dedalus Foundation, Inc./ Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
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