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A provided image shows an artwork connected to a scheme of selling false Keith Haring paintings. According to a criminal complaint, employees at New York auction houses were approached about the art. A man was taken into custody and charged with wire fraud. Department of Justice via The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Angel Pereda, 49, of Mexico, was taken into custody in New York and charged with wire fraud after prosecutors accused him of trying to sell artworks that he falsely claimed had been created by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced on Friday. Prosecutors said that on at least one occasion, Pereda created and sent new fake provenances to an intermediary in New York claiming that a painting was by Basquiat, in the hopes that it could be sold for millions of dollars. Basquiats 1982 work Untitled sold for $110.5 million at auction in 2017. William F. Sweeney Jr., an assistant director at the FBI, said in a statement, Mr. Pereda conned art buyers, hoping his victims wouldnt see the difference between real art and a forgery. Pereda did not immediately respond to a request for comment. He faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day An ultra-Orthodox Jew looks at parts of a Second Temple period (516 BC-AD 70) public building considered to be one of the most luxurious found to date, as they are unveiled by the Israel Antiquities Authority in Jerusalem, July, 8, 2021. Israeli archaeologists unveiled new parts of a major public building in Jerusalem just metres from where the Second Jewish Temple is believed to have stood two millennia ago. The opulent hall used by elites is the latest discovery to be made public by the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) from what it refers to as the Western Wall Tunnels in the Old City in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem. Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP.
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| Exhibition at Hauser & Wirth shines a light on its Los Angeles artists | | Lisson Gallery announces representation of Olga de Amaral | | White House sets ethics plan for sales of Hunter Biden's art |
Richard Jackson, STUNGUN, 2020. Neon, 30.5 x 86.4 x 10.2 cm / 12 x 34 x 4 in © Richard Jackson. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Jeff McLane.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Hauser & Wirth spotlights its Los Angeles artists with a multimedia group presentation of nearly 30 artworks. In Focus: LA Artists showcases the groundbreaking techniques, diverse viewpoints, and intergenerational relationships of the gallery artists who call one of the worlds most creative cities home: Larry Bell, Mark Bradford, Charles Gaines, Richard Jackson, Paul McCarthy, Christina Quarles, Gary Simmons, Henry Taylor, Diana Thater, and the late artists Luchita Hurtado, Mike Kelley, and Jason Rhoades. On the occasion of Hauser & Wirths 5-year anniversary in the Arts District and in celebration of the community that has been integral to its vision for nearly 30 years, the presentation highlights the lasting contributions of the artists and foreground their influential practices, which have been instrumental in making Los Angeles an international capital of artistic ... More | |
Olga de Amaral, Escrito 17, 2016. Linen, gesso, acrylic and gold leaf, 200 x 130 cm. 78 5/8 x 51 1/8 in. © Olga de Amaral; Courtesy Lisson Gallery.
LONDON.- Lisson Gallery today announced representation of Olga de Amaral in New York, London and Shanghai, ahead of her first major retrospective in North America, To Weave a Rock, which is co-organised by Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, where it will debut this summer (25 July 19 September 2021), before travelling to the Cranbrook in October 2021 and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York in late 2022. Two exhibitions at Lisson Gallery will take place this year, first in East Hampton in August and then in New York in November. Olga de Amaral: I am thrilled to join Lisson Gallery because of their commitment to artists whose work does not fall into neat categories. Lisson has long embraced artists, like myself, whose experimental techniques blur the boundaries between painting, sculpture and installation. Alex Logsdail, Lisson Gallery: ... More | |
Hunter Biden, the president's son, at his art studio in Los Angeles, Nov. 1, 2019. Biden will be able to sell his paintings through a New York dealer, who will not disclose the buyers or the prices. Elizabeth Weinberg/The New York Times.
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WASHINGTON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The White House has helped develop a system for Hunter Biden to sell pieces of his art without him, or anyone in the administration, knowing who bought them, the latest effort to respond to criticism over how President Joe Bidens son makes his money. Under the arrangement, a New York City art dealer would sell the paintings, which the dealer has said he is pricing at between $75,000 and $500,000, while keeping secret all information about the sales, according to a person familiar with the plan. The gallerist, Georges Bergès, has agreed to not share any information about the buyers or prices of Hunter Bidens work with anyone. Bergès has also agreed to reject any offer that appears suspicious, ... More |
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| Christie's appoints Rebecca Yuancao Yang as Chairman, China | | Baltimore Museum of Art announces 175 acquisitions, new commission, and additional gifts | | Unique private collection of rare pianos to go up for auction |
Rebecca has an entrepreneurial background with diverse interests. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
HONG KONG.- Christies announced the appointment of Rebecca Yuancao Yang as Chairman, China, effective from 1 August 2021. Based in Shanghai and reporting to Francis Belin, President, Christies Asia Pacific, Rebecca will bring with her a wealth of experience, deep knowledge, and widespread connections in China, to foster the development and cultivation of trusted relationships with top tier clients to support the expansion of Christies in China. Rebecca will work closely with Julia Hu, General Manager, China, and our global specialist community to drive top client transactions. As the brand ambassador for Christies in China, Rebecca will maintain a high external profile through participation in key marketing campaigns, as well as events organised by clients. Francis Belin commented, China is undoubtedly a country of strategic importance to our business: a market which presents ... More | |
Mequitta Ahuja, Order, 2020. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Purchase with exchange funds from the Pearlstone Family Fund and partial gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. BMA 2021.112.
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art announced today that it has received a significant promised gift of 90 works of art by nearly 70 artists from long-standing museum supporters Nancy Dorman and Stanley Mazaroff. The gift is particularly strong in photographs and works on paper, including those created by acclaimed artists Hans Hofmann, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Alfredo Jaar, Christopher James, Louise Lawler, Andres Serrano, Gary Simmons, Wolfgang Tillmans, Sze Tsung Leong, and Fred Tomaselli. The collection also includes important works by artists based in or with strong ties to Baltimore such as Larry Cook, Roland Freeman, Connie Imboden, Soledad Salamé, Elizabeth Talford Scott, and Stephen Towns. Examples of other paintings, sculpture, textiles, mixed-media works, and ... More | |
The pianos have been collected by one of the worlds foremost piano restorers, David Winston.
LONDON.- Dreweatts auctioneers is to offer an exceptional private collection of rare pianos in a landmark sale on September 23, 2021. The collection was amassed by David Winston, who holds a Royal Warrant as Restorer and Conservator of Pianos to HM the Queen. It is comprised of 26 unique instruments dating from the 18th century to present day. Amongst those expected to achieve the highest bids is a rare 1925 Pleyel grand piano fitted with an original Auto Pleyela self-playing mechanism, in a spectacular Chinoiserie Louis XV case (estimate £40,000-£60,000) and a remarkable double piano from Pleyel, which is one of only 50 ever made. This model, which has a guide price of £30,000-£50,000, was once owned by the concert pianist wife of French writer and minister of culture André Malraux. Speaking about the sale, Will Richards, Deputy Chairman of Dreweatts said, It is rare to see so many exquisite pianos together in ... More |
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| Imaginary deaths, real grief: Thai artist honours fallen anime heroes | | Praz-Delavallade opens an exhibition of new drawings by Soufiane Ababri | | Pilar Corrias opens two exhibitions of new work by Tala Madani |
Jinnipha Nivasabut wanted to mourn the deaths of her favourite characters in popular shows and manga series. AFP PHOTO.
BANGKOK (AFP).- Portraits of dozens of anime characters, each with a small altar for fans to leave flowers, adorn the wall of a Bangkok gallery -- a tribute to fictional heroes who met an untimely death. The 2D Afterlife exhibit is made up of 50 of these creations from artist Jinnipha Nivasabut, who wanted to mourn the deaths of her favourite characters in popular shows and manga series. The core concept "is to explore the idea of why the deaths of these fictional characters could have such an impact on real people," the 22-year-old anime lover said. Eschewing anime's cartoon style, she instead painted the fallen heroes with the realism of stately oil portraits. "In my memories, I see these characters as real persons. Theyre like members of my family so I decided to draw these characters to resemble real persons as much as possible," she said. Japanese anime and manga enjoy ... More | |
Soufiane Ababri, Bedwork (Jeffrey Dahmer), 2021. Colored pencil and wax pastel on paper, 25 5/8 x 19 3/4 in. 65 x 50 cm.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Praz-Delavallade is presenting Bunch of Queequeg, an exhibition of new drawings by Soufiane Ababri and his first solo presentation in the US. The exhibition will be on view through 26 August, 2021. Eroticism opens the way to death. Death opens the way to the denial of our individual lives. Without doing violence to our inner selves, are we able to bear a negation that carries us to the farthest bounds of possibility? --Georges Bataille, Eroticism: Death and Sensuality (1957) Its well past midnight at a salty New England inn when Ishmael, the narrator of Herman Melvilles Moby Dick (1851), is awoken by a strange bedfellow. Queequeg, a Polynesian harpooner, is looking for a place to sleep. Hes introduced as an object of horror: candlelight reveals his tropical tanning to be a purplish yellow coat of Maori tattoos. This wild cannibal, tomahawk ... More | |
Tala Madani, Perfect Copy II, 2021. Oil on linen, 100.3 x 80 x 2.5 cm. 39 1/2 x 31 1/2 x 1 in. Courtesy of the artist and Pilar Corrias, London.
LONDON.- Pilar Corrias opened two exhibitions of new work by Tala Madani. Skid Mark is at the gallerys Eastcastle Street location, 4 June 10 July 2021, whilst Chalk Mark inaugurates the gallerys new location at 2 Savile Row, opening 8 July and running until 8 September 2021. The exhibitions include painting and animation, and together constitute the artists first UK solo presentation in five years. Chalk Mark brings together new works exploring education and instruction. Where Skid Mark focuses on the interior world, Chalk Mark takes on the exterior, examining the ways in which children are controlled and cultured by their schooling. A series of Chalk Board paintings engage with the role of copying and repetition in learning, via repeated motifs that are deliberately undisciplined and unruly. Children are depicted as accosted by education, with one pai ... More |
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| 75 artists selected for New Contemporaries 2021 | | Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents Rachel Kneebone's most ambitious sculpture to date | | Maureen Paley opens a solo exhibition by Wolfgang Tillmans |
Elsa James, Black Girl Essex; Here We Come, Look We Here, 2019. Courtesy the artist.
LONDON.- New Contemporaries announced this year's selected artists for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021. The rigorous two-part selection process was headed by a panel of three internationally renowned artists comprising Hew Locke, Tai Shani and Michelle Williams Gamaker, who have selected a new generation of artists in what has been a challenging year. 75 artists from final year students and recent graduates of UK arts institutions, to practitioners on alternative peer-to-peer learning programmes have been selected to take part in New Contemporaries 2021 open submission opportunities. This includes participation in the annual touring exhibition and the newly launched digital platform supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, as well as access to digital residences and projects, studio bursaries, mentorships, talks and workshops. Selected artists for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021 are: Susan Atwill, Mataio ... More | |
Rachel Kneebone, 399 Days, 2012-13. Courtesy a European Collection. Photo © Jonty Wilde.
WAKEFIELD.- Yorkshire Sculpture Park is presenting 399 Days by Rachel Kneebone (b.1973) in the unique environment of the 18th-century Chapel. The artists most ambitious sculpture to date, 399 Days is named after the length of time it took to make, is over five-metres in height and comprises 63 exterior panels. Monumental in scale yet exquisite in detail, it echoes historic sculptures such as Trajans Column, a plaster cast of which is displayed in the sculpture court of the V&A, where 399 Days was also shown from 2017-2019. Kneebones sculptures do not depict the full human form, but allude to the body through the use of a mass of legs appearing to be in motion, often shown in relation to organic forms such as flowers and orbs. Clay, and its more refined form of porcelain, have been used for thousands of years to make objects for the home and for display. Rachel Kneebone has developed her own unique form of sculpture, ... More | |
Wolfgang Tillmans, Remy at Spectrum, 2015 (detail) © Wolfgang Tillmans, courtesy Maureen Paley, London / Hove.
HOVE.- Maureen Paley is presenting a solo exhibition at Morena di Luna by Wolfgang Tillmans, which is his tenth with the gallery and his first to be featured at the gallerys space in Hove named by the artist. Wolfgang Tillmans seeks to challenge the potentiality of making pictures. His work has epitomised a new kind of subjectivity in photography, pairing intimacy and playfulness with social critique and the persistent questioning of existing values and hierarchies. Through his seamless integration of genres, subjects, techniques, and exhibition strategies, he has expanded conventional ways of approaching the medium, and his practice continues to address the fundamental question of what it means to create pictures in an increasingly image-saturated world. Tillmans transforms Morena di Luna into an overall installation spanning both gallery spaces and the connecting hallway. The title ... More |
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Katherine Bradford's first solo exhibition with kaufmann repetto opens in Milan
MILAN.- kaufmann repetto is presenting Lifeguards, Katherine Bradfords first solo exhibition with the gallery. Katherine Bradfords mesmerizing yet rigorous visual language freely traverses the relationship between nonobjective and representational painting, allowing potential narratives to unfold and interweave with the investigation of form and color. In Bradfords exhibition, Lifeguards, we find ourselves immersed in a world of vast expanses of color depicting water and sky, populated by bathers and swimmers. Shades of blue ranging from cobalt to azure, and ultramarine to turquoise, divide the canvas into distinct horizontal planes, while the variations in saturation and tone evoke an elusive yet palpable atmosphere. Lighter and darker hues are interchangeable and used without functional or hierarchical distinction. Subtle modulations of pale lavender ... More
Africa enters Cannes with homage to Chad 'heroines'
CANNES (AFP).- Africa took centre stage at the Cannes festival on Thursday with a film celebrating Chadian women who navigate religious dogma and male domination with courage, ruses and female solidarity. "Lingui" by Cannes veteran Mahamat Saleh Haroun is the main competition's only entry from sub-Saharan Africa, and tells the story of a pregnant teenager in the poor outskirts of Chad's capital N'Djamena. The 15-year old girl, daughter of a single mother, wants an abortion but faces huge obstacles, both legal and religious, within her Muslim community. In a society where men seem to hold all the power and are rarely held accountable for their actions, the women have to find covert ways to protect themselves. "It's a film about the ordinary lives of women," Haroun told AFP in an interview. "They are the heroines of everyday life." ... More
Architect finds a sense of belonging for his family's homeland, and for himself
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The first time Omar Degan set foot in Mogadishu, in October 2017, he quickly grasped that it bore little resemblance to the picturesque cityscape his parents, Somali refugees who had fled to Europe, described to him growing up. Instead of an idyllic scene of whitewashed buildings and modernist architecture set against the turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean, he found a new Mogadishu, one that had emerged in a rush to rebuild after Somalias civil war. Concrete roadblocks and blastproof walls remained pervasive, and camps for displaced people abutted multicolored condominiums with barely a hint of local styles or heritage. For Degan, a 31-year-old architect, that dissonance echoed a loss of cultural identity that he has since worked to restore, and that he hopes others will increasingly embrace in the process ... More
Exhibition brings together work by 10 British African diaspora artists
CAMBRIDGE.- Kettles Yard opened Untitled: art on the conditions of our time. This exhibition brings together work by 10 British African diaspora artists with a focus on how their innovative practices ask important questions about some of the most important cultural and political issues of our turbulent times. The exhibition features new commissions by Barby Asante, Appau Junior Boakye-Yiadom and NT, as well as new and recent work by Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, Phoebe Boswell, Kimathi Donkor, Evan Ifekoya, Cedar Lewisohn, Harold Offeh and Ima-Abasi Okon. Painting, drawing and printmaking sits alongside performance, video and sound installation. The exhibition title refers to the longstanding art historical convention of leaving artworks untitled in order to encourage attention onto the works themselves, and eliminate reliance upon ... More
The eight-year marathon to bring Anne Frank to the big screen
CANNES (AFP).- After making one of the most successful adult animated films of all time in "Waltz With Bashir", Israeli director Ari Folman vowed never to tackle the mind-bending complexity of such projects again. But when he got the chance to bring the iconic story of Anne Frank to the big screen for children, he couldn't resist -- even though it ended up taking over his life for eight years. "Where is Anne Frank", which debuted at Cannes this week, is another beautifully drawn cartoon, and his first to be aimed at younger audiences. Folman happily admits this is because his last attempt at an adult animation -- "The Congress" starring Robin Wright and Harvey Keitel -- was a massive flop. Despite being praised by critics, that film was "a disaster in the box office," Folman told AFP in an interview at Cannes. "I hassled so many people, raised $10 million, ... More
Anna Netrebko headlines Athens as Greece reopens for live opera
ATHENS (AFP).- Russian operatic superstar Anna Netrebko makes a rare appearance in Athens on Saturday in an all-star concert that will mark the reopening of live performances at the Greek National Opera even as authorities sound the alarm over a resurgence in coronavirus infections. Netrebko will headline the All Star Verdi Gala at Athen's historic Panathenaic stadium, the site of the first modern Olympic games, in an evening of arias and duets from some of Verdi's best-loved operas, such as "Aida", Il Trovatore", "The Force of Destiny", "Otello" and "Rigoletto". She will star alongside her husband, Azerbaijan tenor Yusif Eyvazov, Greek baritone Dimitry Platanias and Georgian mezzo Anita Rachvelishvili, accompanied by the orchestra of the Greek National Opera under the baton of French conductor Philippe Auguin. "We are very excited, ... More
Blenheim Art Foundation opens exhibition by Tino Seghal
WOODSTOCK.- Blenheim Art Foundation opened a major solo exhibition by Tino Sehgal, taking place 9 July 15 August 2021. Following a year of extensive confinement indoors, this is the first exhibition at Blenheim designed specifically for the Park and Gardens. Tino Sehgal (b. 1976) is known for artworks composed exclusively using the human body, voice, and social interaction. His artistic practice focuses on the fleeting gestures and subtleties of social encounters, with participation and open exchange as the subjects of value, rather than material objects. For this project, Sehgal presents a complex, roaming choreography imagined for Blenheim, involving more than 30 participants. Conceived as a series of scenes rather than works with fixed locations, the exhibition moves fluidly throughout the Park and Gardens like a game of encounters, ... More
The collection of Diane and Sam Stewart will star in single-owner sale at Bonhams
LOS ANGELES, CA.- On Wednesday, August 4, Bonhams Los Angeles will hold a single-owner sale of the Collection of Sam and Diane Stewart, with Ernest Martin Hennings Indian Horsemen leading the sale. This work, which the Stewarts purchased from Bonhams in 2004, was painted at the height of the artists mature career. The composition features three Navajo figures on horseback in the immediate foreground, set against a yellow aspen landscape, a common theme often seen in Hennings oeuvre. The work is estimated at $600,000 800,000. Bonhams Western Art Specialist Katherine Halligan commented, The Collection of Sam and Diane Stewart features a simply magnificent array of artwork, including the iconic top lot Indian Horsemen by Hennings, Duntons Delivering the Mail, an important and timely depiction of a working ... More
Using the wisdom of dance to find our way back to our bodies
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Somewhere in the middle of April, I started taking up space again in the world, the bigger one outside of my apartment, beyond my neighborhood. Taking up space is a bizarre feeling after a year spent inside. Its sometimes exhilarating, sometimes terrifying. Its always strange. As we emerge from the pandemic, were not just walking around without masks, were learning how to reenter our bodies. Its wild out there meaning the merry, unnerving combination of New York City and lifted restrictions but its still time to hold on to all that is slow. The pandemic, devastating in so many ways, has also been a chance to explore the value of the body and of the everyday, a chance to refocus your eyes, to realize, as dance critic Edwin Denby wrote: Daily life is wonderfully full of things to see. Not only peoples ... More
The Arizona collection of U.S. large cents to be offered at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- A discerning eye taking advantage of important opportunities(no comma) led to the formation of The Arizona Collection of United States Large Cents, a special collection named after the home state of the shrewd collectors who assembled it. The trove features more than 150 coins, mostly within the Condition Census for their individual varieties. These coins carry the provenance of many collectors including Boka, Eliasberg, Holmes, Husak, Koshkarian, Naftzger, Pogue, Reiver, Starr, Twin Leaf and several others. This Arizona collector chose some of the best examples out of those past collections. The collection spans from 1793 to 1857, including exceptional quality and historically important examples of all types that will be offered without reserve during Heritage Auctions' Florida United Numismatic Convention U.S. Coins Auction in January ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo died July 11, 1593. Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526 or 1527 - July 11, 1593) was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books. In this image: Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Vertumne (portrait de Rodolphe II), vers 1590, Huile sur bois. Skokloster, Château de Skokloster (Suède).
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