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Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi, one of the four works whose sales were a focus of a civil trial, in New York, Nov. 14, 2017. A jury in a civil trial in New York decided in favor of Sothebys on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024, rejecting a Russian oligarchs claim that the auction house had helped a Swiss dealer who he said defrauded him out of tens of millions of dollars in high-end art sales. (Andrew White/The New York Times)
by Graham Bowley
NEW YORK, NY.- A jury in a civil trial in New York decided in favor of Sothebys on Tuesday, rejecting a Russian oligarchs claim that the auction house had helped a Swiss dealer who he said defrauded him out of tens of millions of dollars in high-end art sales. The oligarch, Dmitry Rybolovlev, had accused Sothebys of being in on a plot in which, he said, the dealer Yves Bouvier posed as an art adviser negotiating sales on Rybolovlevs behalf when, in reality, he was secretly acting as an art dealer, buying works at Sothebys before flipping them to his client. In the resales, Bouvier at times increased the prices by tens of millions of dollars. But the 10-person federal jury sided with Sothebys, which said that it was unaware of any scheme and that all of its executives efforts were focused on selling art at as high a price as possible to the buyer, whom they believed to be Bouvier. Whatever the dealer did with the art after he bought it was none of the auction ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view, âCathy Josefowitz. Releaseâ at Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Limmatstrasse, 1 February - 17 May 2024 © Estate of Cathy Josefowitz. Courtesy Estate of Cathy Josefowitz and Hauser & Wirth Photo: Jon Etter.
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| Josephine Baker, still moving | | An explorer believes he found Amelia Earhart's plane. Experts aren't convinced. | | 'Maria Callas: Portraits from the Intensa Sanpaolo Publifoto Archive' | 
Slipcover by Simone Leigh, one of many pieces of art in the Slow Fade To Black: Josephine Baker exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin on Jan. 25, 2024. (Andreas Meichsner/The New York Times)
by Emily LaBarge
BERLIN.- There was no shortage of epithets for Josephine Baker, the St. Louis-born polymath who took Paris by storm when she arrived there in 1925, aged 19, to headline La Revue Nègre, a show of all-Black performers at the Théâtre des Champs-Ãlysées. French graphic designer Paul Colin said hed never seen anyone move like her: Part kangaroo, part prizefighter. A woman made of rubber, a female Tarzan. To writer Colette, a rumored lover, she was a most beautiful panther, and to Ernest Hemingway, the most sensational woman anyone ever saw. Over the next decade, she was also called Black Venus, Black Pearl and Creole Goddess. It is the Baker of this era doing her scantily clad danse sauvage who still looms large in the cultural imagination. She ... More | | 
Tony Romeo, CEO of Deep Sea Vision, in Manhattan on Jan. 30, 2024. (Emon Hassan/The New York Times)
by Michael Levenson
NEW YORK, NY.- It is one of the greatest enduring mysteries in aviation history: the disappearance of Amelia Earhart after she took off from Lae, New Guinea, in a Lockheed 10-E Electra on July 2, 1937. Earhart was trying to become the first woman to fly around the world. She and a navigator, Fred Noonan, were headed to Howland Island, a tiny coral atoll in the southwestern Pacific, to refuel. But they were never seen again. For years, many have tried and failed to find the wreckage of their plane. Now, the head of a marine robotics company believes he has done it, although some experts remain deeply skeptical. Tony Romeo, the CEO of Deep Sea Vision, says that a sonar image that his company captured during an expedition last year appears to show a plane resting about 3 miles down on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, ... More | | 
Maria Callas in her home, Milan, October 1957. Photograph by Franco Gremignani - Publifoto, 24 x 30.40 cm. Publifoto Archive.
MILAN.- For the occasion of the centenary of Maria Callas' birth, which fell on the 2nd of December, Intesa Sanpaolo opened the exhibition "Maria Callas. Portraits from the Intesa Sanpaolo Publifoto Archive," curated by Aldo Grasso and taking place at the Gallerie dItalia in Milan since the 9th of November to the 18th of February 2024. Sponsored by the Municipality of Milan, this exhibition is the first initiative to kick off Callas 100, a programme of events taking place in November and December in different city venues. Aimed at paying tribute to the famous singer, actress and fashion icon, the programme Callas 100 has been organised by the Municipality of Milan in collaboration with Teatro alla Scala, Intesa Sanpaolo Gallerie dItalia, and Piccolo Teatro di Milano. The exhibition at Gallerie dItalia presents a selection of 91 images from the Intesa Sanpaolo Publifoto Archive, all realised between 1954 and 1970. Man ... More |
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| Works by 20th Century & Contemporary icons lead Phillips' February 'New York Editions Auction' | | Everard Auctions presents superior-quality estate paintings, silver, Asian art & furniture | | Feb. 13 auction includes original prints by Banksy, Matisse, Lowry, other luminaries of Modern and Contemporary art | 
Joan Miró, La Dentellière (The Lace Maker) (M. 593), 1969 Estimate: $6,000 - 8,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips February New York Editions and Works on Paper auction will showcase nearly 120 lots, including 18 complete sets and 19 works from the Robert Bechtle and Whitney Chadwick Trust. On view from 1 to 14 February at 432 Park Avenue, the live sale is scheduled for 14 February at 11am EST. Notable highlights include a complete set of Damien Hirsts The Virtues, Banksys Toxic Mary and Jack and Jill (Police Kids) prints, and select Roy Lichtenstein works ranging from 1968 1995. A dedicated auction of Works from the James Rosenquist Estate will follow the Various Owners sale in the afternoon. The collection of Robert Bechtle and Whitney Chadwick, assembled over their nearly forty-year marriage, reflects Bechtles legacy as a preeminent Photorealist along with Chadwicks expertise as a historian and scholar. With works by Wayne Thiebaud, Ed Ruscha, and Leonora Carrington, among others, ... More | | 
Walter Furlan (Italian, b. 1931-), Omaggio a Picasso, glass sculpture, signed and titled on verso, 22in x 16½ in.
SAVANNAH, GA.- Everard Auctions Feb. 13-14, 2024 Winter Sale offers a beautiful array of fine and decorative art from prominent Southeastern estates and long-held collections. Main categories include Southern regional art, books and manuscripts; Middle Eastern art, fine jewelry, and Asian art and furniture. Many high-end fine and decorative artworks came to Everard from the Hilton Head Island, S.C., estates of a former GE international executive and a UBS Zurich executive. Each of the gentlemen kept meticulous records and retained receipts documenting the purchases made during their years of living abroad. A pair of graceful 17th-century Chinese Qing Dynasty yoke-back huanghuali side chairs with inset rattan seats is entered with a $10,000-$15,000 estimate. The duo is part of a remarkable collection of huanghuali and blackwood ... More | | 
A late Pop Art work by British artist Patrick Caulfield CBE RA (1936-2005), signed and numbered 41/65, is estimated at £15,000-£20,000 ($19,040-$25,395). Chiswick Auctions image,
LONDON.- Original prints by some of the most collected Modern and Contemporary artists will be featured at Chiswick Auctions February 13 Prints and Multiples sale in West London. Signed and limited-edition works by Banksy, Henri Matisse, Laurence Stephen Lowry, Takashi Murakami, Sir Peter Blake, Tracey Emin and Sir Howard Hodgkin are entered with estimates ranging from £100 to £20,000 ($125-$25,395). At the top end of expectations is a late Pop Art work by British artist Patrick Caulfield CBE RA (1936-2005) in which he pays homage to Pablo Picasso's renowned oil Les demoiselles d'Avignon. A visual pun on the screen-printing process, it depicts Picasso's painting from the reverse aspect, with the five women shown from behind. I have been haunted by that painting [Les demoiselles d'Avignon] throughout ... More |
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| Experience Barbara Kruger's iconic art at Serpentine | | The Architecture Drawing Prize exhibition open at Sir John Soane's Museum | | Chita Rivera, electrifying star of Broadway and beyond, is dead at 91 | 
Barbara Kruger, FOREVER Installation view, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, September 16, 2017January 20, 2018 Courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers Photo: Timo Ohler.
LONDON.- American artist Barbara Kruger (b. 1945, Newark, New Jersey, USA) is widely known for her impactful work with images and words. Drawing from an early career as a graphic designer for magazines, Kruger developed an iconic visual language that frequently borrows from the techniques and aesthetics of advertising and other media. Since the 1970s, her artworks have continually explored complex mechanisms of power, gender, class, consumerism, and capital. Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You. at Serpentine South is Krugers first solo institutional show in London in over twenty years. It features a unique selection of installations alongside moving image works and multiple soundscapes. The exhibition is the UK premiere of Untitled (No ... More | | 
Installation View. Photo credit: Gareth Gardner.
LONDON.- The Architecture Drawing Prize exhibition at Sir John Soane's Museum in London has now opened. It features drawings by the finalists and category winners of the 2023 Architecture Drawing Prize. Louise Stewart, Director of Sir John Soane's Museum says: Along with producing his own buildings, Sir John Soane sought to inspire young architects to learn from the built world around them, and did so through using drawings in innovative ways.The Architecture Drawing Prize continues this tradition, showcasing new work that celebrates draughtsmanship, skill and innovation. This years Architecture Drawing Prize exhibition at Sir John Soanes Museum takes the visionary as its theme. The curators are combining selected drawings from the Prize with examples from Soanes collection to showcase how drawing is at the very heart of expressing innovation and design intent in architecture. A reading ... More | | 
Chita Rivera in "Chita Rivera: The Dancers Life, at the Schoenfeld Theater in New York, Nov. 22, 2005. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
by Robert D. McFadden
NEW YORK, NY.- Chita Rivera, the fire-and-ice dancer, singer and actress who leapt to stardom in the original Broadway production of West Side Story and dazzled audiences for nearly seven decades as a Puerto Rican lodestar of the American musical theater, died on Tuesday in New York. She was 91. The death was announced in a statement by her daughter, Lisa Mordente. It gave no other details. To generations of musical aficionados, Rivera was a whirling, bounding, high-kicking elemental force of the dance; a seductive singer of smoky ballads and sizzling jazz; and a propulsive actress of vaudevillian energy. She appeared in scores of stage productions in New York and London, logged 100,000 miles on cabaret tours and ... More |
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| Using AI, Hollywood agency and tech startup aim to protect artists | | 'An American Century: The Collection of Dr. James & Debra Pearl & Fine Photographs' at auction February 15 | | On Nantucket, a legal maneuver to protect historic homes from gutting | 
Taylor Swift performs on the stage at Metlife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., on May 26, 2023. WME said the partnership would help its clients either get fake images removed or receive compensation for the use of their likenesses. (Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet/The New York Times)
by Nicole Sperling
NEW YORK, NY.- The talent agency WME announced a partnership with the technology firm Vermillio on Tuesday that it hopes will protect its clients from having their likenesses misused through artificial intelligence technology. Vermillio has created a platform, Trace ID, that could insulate WME clients from thefts of their likeness and intellectual property by using AI technology to track images. The partnership will also look for ways to use the technology to allow clients to monetize their likeness and image themselves. The use of AI and how to protect these assets was a major point of contention in last years actors strike. Even after a deal with the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the actors union, ... More | | 
Edward Weston, Cabbage Leaf, from Edward Weston: Fiftieth Anniversary Portfolio, 1902-1950, silver print, 1931; printed circa 1951. From the Collection Dr. James & Debra Pearl. Estimate $4,000 to $6,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries winter offering of Fine Photographs on Thursday, February 15, opens with An American Century, a 100 lot selection from the Collection of Dr. James and Debra Pearl. The sale will also feature the houses seasonal offering of Fine Photographs with house favorites such as Dorothea Lange, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Helmet Newton and more. Swann is pleased to offer a special auction of 100 lots from the Collection of Dr. James and Debra Pearl. Rich in American masterworks, the collection features the premier photographers of the nineteenth-century American landscape, such as Carleton Watkins, Eadweard Muybridge, and William Henry Jackson, as well as the twentieth-century masters, including Ansel Adams, Irving Penn, and Edward Weston. The highlight of the offering is Richard Avedons exceptional 1958 portrait of Georgia OKeeffe, the only print in existence of this frame ... More | | 
Mary Bergman, director of the Nantucket Preservation Trust, in Nantucket, Mass. on Dec. 14, 2023. A steady erosion of history has been underway on the island for years, with ultrawealthy newcomers remaking the interiors of antique structures. (Matt Cosby/The New York Times)
by Jenna Russell
NANTUCKET, MASS.- On an island where the average home sale topped $4 million last year, Ginger Andrews scallop shanty is a golden ticket. If she had any inclination, Andrews, a fourth-generation resident of Nantucket, could sell the waterfront structure next week for a life-changing amount of money. The prospect is intoxicating at least to some of her acquaintances. Theyll say, You could have a chef! Andrews said. Or, Dont you want to travel around the world? But she has a different goal: defending her weatherworn, 19th-century shack against buyers who would gut its unadorned interior, install modern layouts and luxuries, and erase a gritty heritage that has already mostly vanished from the island, 30 miles off ... More |
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 'Passport' Review: A master of comedy in a Migrant CampPARIS.- Badly injured from a fight, a man wakes up in the Calais Jungle, a ramshackle camp for migrants in northern France. His memory is gone, and all he has on him is an Eritrean passport with the name Issa. Thats the premise of Alexis Michaliks brisk, effective new play Passport, which was greeted with a standing ovation last weekend in Paris. Until it was demolished in 2016, the overcrowded Jungle encampment stood as a symbol of Europes refugee crisis, which hasnt entirely subsided. While the site itself is gone, migrants still regularly attempt to cross the English Channel from the Calais area and reach Britain. Many in the French theater world publicly supported the people living in the Jungle, and a handful of small-scale productions in France took the camp as inspiration. Still, the first major play about it came from Britain, ... More  The women of 'Feud: Capote vs. the Swans' are birds of a featherNEW YORK, NY.- The first season of Ryan Murphys Feud aired in 2017. A juicy survey of the bitter rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, the co-stars of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, the show earned 18 Emmy nominations, winning two. A second season, based on Prince Charles and Princess Dianas troubled marriage, was developed then scrapped, mostly because Murphy felt that he could never outdo The Crown. Another iteration, centered on William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal, also fell apart. Murphy and his producers toyed with a half-dozen other ideas, though never for very long. Its very easy to do a show where people are just nasty to each other, Murphy said in an interview this month. But feuds are never about hate. Theyre about love. Then Murphy read Capotes Women, by Laurence Leamer, ... More  At 80, the modest queen of contemporary music keeps exploringNEW YORK, NY.- On a cold afternoon in early January, pianist Ursula Oppens was making an album at Brooklyn College. At 79, Oppens is a little fragile, tiny and stooped. But when she sat down at the piano shoes off, Diet Coke on the floor out came playing of power and technical aplomb. Most of the time, at least. Oppens was setting down the first recording of an early, unpublished sonata by uncompromising modernist Charles Wuorinen, and, like much of Wuorinens music, it was treacherously thorny. She had been studying it, on and off, for a year, but it was still slow going. I played a couple of correct notes, she said after an early take, but not many. That kind of modesty has been mixed in with mastery throughout Oppens long, distinguished career. With crystalline lu ... More  Hauser & Wirth opens an exhibition of works by under-recognised artist Cathy Josefowitz ZURICH.- Developing a deeply personal visual language in her quest to represent the body as an expressive vehicle of individual experience, New York-born, Swiss-raised artist Cathy Josefowitz (1956 2014) created a wide-ranging oeuvre spanning drawing and painting, performance and dance. The breadth of her creative output will be on view in a solo exhibitionJosefowitzs first in Zurichfocusing on her compelling progression of the figure across four decades, from the 1970s to her later shift towards abstraction, with many works shown for the first time. Born in New York in 1956, Cathy Josefowitz spent her childhood and adolescence in Geneva, Switzerland. The artists lifelong fascination with the bodily experience was sparked in part by her study of stage design at the Théâtre National de Strasbourg from 1972 1973. ... More  'Recasting Antiquity: Whistler, Tanagra, and the Female Form' opens at the Michael C. Carlos MuseumATLANTA, GA.- Recasting Antiquity: Whistler, Tanagra, and the Female Form opens at Emory University's Michael C. Carlos Museum on February 3, 2024. The exhibition focuses on a series of works on paper created in Paris by James McNeill Whistler in the early 1890s that were inspired by recently excavated Hellenistic Greek terracotta figurines known collectively as Tanagras. The exhibition, the first to ever exhibit works by Whistler alongside ancient art, juxtaposes approximately thirty of the artists prints and drawings with significant examples of Tanagra figurines, many on loan from the Louvre Museum. It contextualizes the work of the expatriate American artist within the wider enthusiasm for the terracottas that took hold of Europe and the United States around the turn of the twentieth century. Recasting Antiquity is co-curated ... More  'Language Pit' Gary Hill's second solo exhibition with bitforms gallery now on viewNEW YORK, NY.- Language Pit is Gary Hills second solo exhibition with bitforms gallery. Through an ongoing investigation of language, Hill offers works that explore the physicality of language in a multiplicity of ways through silkscreens, watercolors, sculpture, and video installation. Exhibited works probe both the visual and auditory components of the spoken word. None of the Above continues Hills obsessive parsing of language and its myriad of possibilities. A large video projection installed in portrait orientation depicts the artist performing a bricolage of words and syntax. Uncannily, the work parallels a similar terrain to the pronoun landscape for its runaway of complexity. Hill enunciates each word while moving his hands in tandem with his discourse. The poetics playfully feeds back on itself, enveloping and unraveling ... 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More  Jorge Eielson's centenary celebrated in new exhibition at Timothy Taylor, LondonLONDON.- Timothy Taylor is opening Room in Rome, an exhibition celebrating the centenary of the great Peruvian artist and writer Jorge Eielson (19242006) in London. Presented in collaboration with the Jorge Eielson Archive and Study Center, the exhibition centres on a critical moment in Eielsons career when, in his mid-twenties, he moved from his native Lima to Europe, settling first in Paris and then in Rome. By situating Eielsons work alongside the European artists he encountered during this periodincluding Alberto Burri, Enrico Castellani, Lucio Fontana, and Antoni TÃ piesRoom in Rome explores the fertile, cross-cultural ground from which Eielsons landmark Quipus paintings emerged and elaborates a greater global context for Eielsons highly personal visual work. This exhibition is accompanied by a text written by Luis Rebaza- ... More  'Waiting to be Seen: Illuminating the Photographs of Ray Francis' now on view at Bruce Silverstein GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Bruce Silverstein Gallery is now showing Waiting to be Seen: Illuminating the Photographs of Ray Francis, the first-ever exhibition of works by James Ray Francis. A photographer and educator who served as an editor of The Black Photographers Annual, Francis, alongside Louis Draper, was responsible for the early formation of The Kamoinge Workshop. Featuring a selection of over thirty never-before-seen early vintage prints taken between 1950-90, this exhibition considers the role of the camera and photography in creating a new black visual culture during a period characterized by activism and the struggle for equality. Questioning the monolithic canon of Western Art History, Ray Francis situates himself as having a rightful place within this lineage of greats, highlighting the complex, multidimensional qualities ... More  A New York maestro takes the podium in SeoulNEW YORK, NY.- In New York, Jaap van Zweden, the New York Philharmonics music director, is preparing to say goodbye: Farewell concerts under the banner Celebrate Jaap! are planned over the next few months before his brief, pandemic-interrupted tenure ends this summer. But in Seoul, South Korea, where van Zweden officially began a five-year term as the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestras music director this month, a new chapter is taking shape. Last week he led sold-out performances of Ludwig van Beethoven and Gustav Mahler with the ensemble, his first concerts as music director. We had this feeling of trying to go to the next level, van Zweden said in an interview from Seoul. Van Zweden was greeted as a celebrity, his face plastered on advertisements that declared the start of a new era. Fans snapped photos in front ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Japanese painter and sculptor Takashi Murakami was born February 01, 1962. Takashi Murakami (born February 1, 1962) is a Japanese contemporary artist. He works in fine arts media (such as painting and sculpture) as well as commercial media (such as fashion, merchandise, and animation) and is known for blurring the line between high and low arts. In this image: Installation view, Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats its Own Leg, MCA Chicago, June 6 - September 24, 2017. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA.
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