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Jean-Luc Martinez, director of the Louvre, at the museums conservation center in Lievin, France, Feb. 9, 2021. Martinez, who led the museum from 2013 to 2021, has been charged with complicity in fraud and money laundering in connection with an investigation into Egyptian artifacts that were trafficked over the past decade, French prosecutors said on May 26, 2022. Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times.
by Aurelien Breeden
PARIS.- The former president of the Louvre has been charged with complicity in fraud and money laundering in connection with an investigation into Egyptian artifacts that were trafficked over the past decade, French prosecutors said Thursday. Jean-Luc Martinez, who was the president and director of the Louvre from 2013 to 2021, was released under judicial supervision after he was charged, the Paris prosecutors office said. The prosecutors office did not provide more details about the investigation, which was first reported by Le Canard Enchaîné and Le Monde. Under the French legal system, the charges against Martinez indicate that investigators suspect him of involvement in a crime but he may not necessarily stand trial. The charges could be dropped at any point if the police uncover new evidence. Complex legal investigations often take several years to unfold in France. Representatives for the Louvre declined to comment Thursday. Lawyers for Martinez were not immediately reachable ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Robert Rauschenberg: Exceptional Works, 1971-1999, May 3 - June 11, 2022 at Mnuchin Gallery. © The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Tom Powel Imaging Inc., courtesy of The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and Mnuchin Gallery, New York.
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| Throwing not just his heart, but his whole body, into his work | | Art dealer sentenced to 7 years in $86 million fraud scheme | | Christie's to offer Yves Klein's 'Anthropométrie De L'époque Bleue, (Ant 124)' at auction for the first time | 
Liang Gallery. Courtesy Art Basel.
by David Belcher
NEW YORK, NY.- For his debut at Art Basel Hong Kong, Taiwanese artist Hsu Yunghsu and the Taipei gallery representing him decided to go big. Really big. The centerpiece of his six works on view at the art fair will be 2021-3, a stoneware sculpture with swirling, cocoonlike sections that Hsu molded and squeezed together with the power of not just his fingers, but his entire body. Standing about 10 feet high and 8 feet wide, the work is made up of two 650-pound pieces stacked vertically, making it far from a typical piece of art to make a journey of any length to a global art fair. Yet 2021-3 is typical of the unconventional art Hsu (pronounced SHOO), 67, is known for, and his ambitious way of molding, coiling and pinching it together. Liang Gallery in Taipei, which will also feature seven other artists in its section, including the video artist Ting Tong Chang, will display two other clay and three porcelain sculptures by Hsu, ranging in length or height from less ... More | | 
Rudolf Stingel (b. 1956), Untitled. Price realised: USD 6,517,500. Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
by Colin Moynihan
NEW YORK, NY.- A London art dealer who duped investors and then fled to an island in the Pacific was sentenced Monday to seven years in prison by a U.S. judge in Manhattan. The dealer, Inigo Philbrick, has been in custody for nearly two years, since his arrest in 2020 on the island of Vanuatu. That time in custody will be counted toward his sentence, officials said. Philbrick pleaded guilty to wire fraud in November, agreeing to forfeit $86 million. He was a brash fixture within the world of postwar and contemporary art, traveling on private jets, renting villas in Ibiza and wearing handmade Italian suits. A U.S. citizen who had attended Goldsmiths, University of London, which has a prestigious art program, Philbrick opened a gallery and consultancy when he was in his 20s. His father, Harry Philbrick, is the former director of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut. In describing ... More | | 
Yves Klein, Anthropométrie de lépoque bleue, (ANT 124), 1960 (detail). Estimate on request. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
LONDON.- Christies will offer Yves Kleins Anthropométrie de lépoque bleue, (ANT 124) (1960, estimate on request) as a leading highlight of the 20th / 21st Century: London Evening Sale on 28 June, part of the 20/21 London to Paris sale series. One of only a handful of Anthropométries on this scale to remain in private ownership, its combination of eight solid blue imprints against a shimmering, dappled azure backdrop, which anticipate the Cosmogonies series, occupies a unique position within the artists oeuvre. Created in February 1960, it represents an important early instance of the newly-discovered technique that Klein would showcase just weeks later in his seminal performance of the same title at the Galerie Internationale dArt Contemporain, Paris. Representing the culmination of performance art and action painting, it stands as a historic record of one of the twentieth centurys most daring and unique ... More |
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| First major retrospective of Paul Cezanne's work in the U.S. in more than 25 years opens in Chicago | | Toledo Museum of Art receives gift of more than 70 works of art | | The Abbaye de Maubuisson is showing two installations by British artist Laura Ellen Bacon | 
Paul Cezanne. Portrait of the Artist with Pink Background, about 1875. Musée dOrsay, Paris, donation de M. Philippe Meyer, 2000. © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY. Photo: Adrien Didierjean.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago is presenting Cezanne, the first major retrospective of Paul Cezannes work in the United States in more than 25 years, and the first exhibition on Cezanne organized by the Art Institute of Chicago in more than 70 years. Planned in coordination with Tate Modern, Cezanne is on view at the Art Institute of Chicago from May 15 through September 5, 2022 and explores Cezannes work across media and genres with 80 oil paintings, 40 watercolors and drawings, and two complete sketchbooks. The outstanding array of works encompasses the range of Cezannes signature subjects and seriesImpressionist landscapes, lesser-known allegorical paintings, and watercolors and oil paintings of Mont. Sainte Victoire, portraits, ... More | | 
Richard Diebenkorn (American, 1922 - 1993), Ocean Park #32, 1970. Oil on Canvas. 236.2 x 205.7 cm.
TOLEDO, OH.- The Toledo Museum of Art has received a promised gift of more than 70 works of art, including pieces by Magdalena Abakanowicz, Richard Diebenkorn, Anish Kapoor, Martin Puryear and Kara Walker. The generous gift from Georgia Welles supports TMA's strategic initiative to broaden the narrative of art history and better reflect its audience in the art on view. Among the works gifted are a major painting from Richard Diebenkorns celebrated Ocean Park series, Ocean Park No. 32 (1970); Roxy Paines large-scale outdoor sculpture, Untitled Tree [Ohio] (2003); and Martin Puryears Bound Cone (1973). This generous gift from Georgia Welles is transformative for our collection, said Adam Levine, Edward Drummond and Florence Scott Libbey director of the Museum. By opening up her collection to our curators and allowing us to select so ... More | | 
Laura Ellen Bacon © Alun Callender.
SAINT-OUEN LAUMÃNE.- The works of Laura Ellen Bacon are sculptures or installations made from woven willow, closely related to land art. They creep and crawl into the architecture, climbing and growing there, in dialogue with the space. At the Abbaye de Maubuisson, the sculptures embrace the shapes of gothic architecture. In the parlour, the willow canes proliferate in aerial coils, soaring up to envelop the spectators. In the nuns hall, a tall, dense sculpture takes its roots in the floor and stretches out like a living being. While these sculptures are as powerful as nature, they also give substance to the past activities of the nuns: here, the endless discussions; there, the painstaking detail and concentration of the needlework suggested by the finely woven willow. Simultaneously monumental and mysterious, the pieces invite us to meditate. A collection of abstract drawings, with their spontaneous ... More |
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| Ground-breaking gift from Alice L. Walton Foundation expands Crystal Bridges' 'Commitment to Future Arts Leaders' | | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, presents new perspectives on modern art in the Art of the Americas Wing | | David Richard Gallery opens "Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe: Paintings from 2009 to 2022" | 
Alice Walton.
BENTONVILLE, ARK.- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announces one of the largest museum endowments in the country dedicated to developing the next generation of arts leadership. With a $10,000,000 gift from the Alice L. Walton Foundation, the museum adds breadth, depth, and oversight to its nationally-recognized initiative, reconstituting its robust internship program as a resounding Commitment to Future Arts Leaders. For more than a decade, Crystal Bridges has developed opportunities for students to expand their practical experience through hands-on learning at the museum and more recently at its satellite contemporary arts space, the Momentary. While its internship offerings have become a first choice for top talent in a competitive field, the museum recognized a need to enhance the program. Five years ago, we strengthened an already successful internship program to focus on hiring and nurturing leaders from diverse ba ... More | | 
Bear Father, Bear Son (1989), Norval Morisseau, featured in Stories Artists Tell: Art of the Americas, the 20th Century.
BOSTON, MASS.- A new reinstallation of the third floor of the Art of the Americas Wing at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, presents modern art from North and South America beyond the standard boundaries of geography, time and artistic movements. Stories Artists Tell: Art of the Americas, the 20th Century takes the form of an anthology, with each room offering a short story on a different themefrom the perspectives of Native artists in the Southwest to the vibrant connections between art, design and jazz at midcentury. The works are primarily drawn from the MFAs collection, with well-known icons appearing alongside new acquisitions and other objects on view for the first time. Stories Artists Tell comprises six galleries that also provide context for a rotating central space, which will feature a series of special exhibitions in the coming years. The first, Touching Roots: Black Ancestral Legacies ... More | | 
Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe Malatesta, 2018. Oil on linen, 59 x 74 © Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe. Courtesy David Richard Gallery. Photo by Yao Zu Lu.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Richard Gallery is presenting Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfes presentation, Paintings from 2009 to 2022, his first solo exhibition in New York in a decade and debut with David Richard Gallery. Gilbert-Rolfes exhibition is on view from May 18 through June 17, 2022. This presentation of fifteen paintings is organized in two groups. The largest includes the debut of nine new paintings created in Florida from 2016 through 2022. They are presented alongside a suite of five paintings from 2015, Five Times During The Day, that consider the light and corresponding colors and impressions during different times of day from early morning to sunset. The last, and earliest painting in the exhibition is a more rigorously geometric work from 2009 titled Emanuel Shinwell Goes to University, its very subtle differences between adjacent dark colors gave rise to the firstan even darker grid ... More |
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| The Holburne Museum presents a sumptuous collection of rarely seen drawings by David Hockney | | Sheila Hicks transforms Coal Drops Yard with monumental sculpture "Woven Wonders" | | Waterhouse & Dodd New York exhibits the most recent work from Martin Brouillette | 
David Hockney Ossie Wearing a Fairisle Sweater 1970 Colored pencil on paper 43.18 x 35.56 cm (17 x 14 Inches) © David Hockney Photo: Fabrice Giber.
BATH.- In 2017, prior to the opening of a retrospective exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, David Hockney (b.1937) painted the words Love Life on the final wall of the show. Explaining his actions, he said: I love my work. And I think the work has love, actually ... I love life. I write it at the end of letters Love life, David Hockney. That simple exhortation is a now common refrain for the artist, who regularly appeals for people to enjoy the simple beauty of the world around them. Although Hockneys love of life has been exemplified through recent bodies of work, such as depicting the progress of spring in his native Yorkshire (2011-13) and, most recently, in Normandy (2020), the Holburnes new exhibition will demonstrate how Hockneys Love Life dictum has underpinned his art since the 1960s. Hockneys delight in the world is no better ... More | | 
Iconic American artist, Sheila Hicks, today unveiled her arresting new sculpture Woven Wonders at Coal Drops Yard in Kings Cross. Open to the public from today until 16th October.
LONDON.- A new monumental outdoor site-specific installation by renowned artist Sheila Hicks (b. 1934, Hastings, Nebraska; residing in Paris since 1964) has been unveiled today at Coal Drops Yard in Kings Cross. Hicks is is known for her ground-breaking work which incorporates distinctive colours, natural materials, and personal narratives. Responding to the carefully restored Victorian architecture by British architect Thomas Heatherwick's studio, and moreover the space created between the buildings, Sheila Hicks has made a vast, floating sculpture which transforms Coal Drops Yard into an intertwined environment of colour and moving forms. As with much of Sheila Hicks' work, soft materials have been repurposed to take on a new life. Hicks's sculpture in the air converses with natural forces including ... More | | 
Martin Brouillettes new body of work was completed between the fall of 2021 and early 2022.
NEW YORK, NY.- Waterhouse & Dodd New York welcomes visitors back to the gallery with Resilience in Color. This show highlights the most recent work from talented Canadian artist, Martin Brouillette. It is an homage to drawing as a coping mechanism, color as solace. Martin Brouillettes new body of work was completed between the fall of 2021 and early 2022. For Martin, these paintings serve as a journal of the last period of the pandemic. He was born in 1971 in Montreal where he began his artistic career. His artistic journey then flourished in London between 2007 and 2019, and has continued after moving to New York three years ago. Waterhouse & Dodd is pleased to be his worldwide representative. The works in this exhibition are oil on canvas but the inspiration is heavily reliant on drawing which has become Brouillettes form of resilience. He mainly draws on an iPad and then recreates and interprets ... More |
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 Christie's presents Handbags Online: The New York Edit including partnership with FASHIONPHILENEW YORK, NY.- Christies New York announces Handbags Online: The New York Edit, an online-only sale open for bidding from 26 May 9 June 2022. The auction will showcase the most sought-after styles alongside timeless classics from Hermès, Chanel, Louis Vuitton and many more of todays in-demand designs. From the rare Himalaya Birkin to the classic Chanel Flap Bag, this online auction will offer a curated selection of handbags that will delight all collectors. The full sale will be exhibited as part of Christies New York Luxury Week between 3-8 June. Specially featured in this sale is a partnership with FASHIONPHILE to present a special collection of handbags and accessories, headlined by the highly sought-after and record-breaking Hermès Himalaya Niloticus Crocodile Kelly 25 (estimate: $150,000-200,000), as well ... More  The Approach opens an exhibition of works by Kira FreijeLONDON.- Metallic debris fallen from space, shooting stars that meet with the earth: meteorites are the solid formations of rock, metal, and minerals that have successfully made their way through the atmosphere embodying violence, destruction, explosions, and irreversible transformation. Like a cluster of meteorites descended from above, Kira Freijes sculptural assemblages scatter throughout the gallery; they are fragments of poetry in physical form evoking familiar yet uneasy feelings that sway between joy and fear. Freijes sculptures inhabit a quasi-religious quality: figures express humility, capturing an idea of mankind in reverence to nature or the preternatural, while other objects either appear as tools or as symbols of nature itself. A tall streetlamp river by night looms gently over the other works, its ambient ... More  Tampa Museum of Art announces $5 million gift from Vinik Family to support new education centerTAMPA, FLA.- The Tampa Museum of Art has announced that its new education center will be named the Vinik Family Education Center, in honor of a $5 million gift made by Jeff and Penny Vinik to the Museums $100 million Centennial Campaign for Renovation and Expansion. The Tampa Museum of Art is renowned for the value of its educational programs and its exceptional support for Hillsborough County students and teachers. We are delighted to advance that good work with this gift, and to further contribute to the Museums mission to educate, engage, and inspire Tampa Bay residents and others around the world, said Penny Vinik. The opening of our new education center is long-awaited for Museum members, volunteers, and other visitors. We are so thrilled to finally have a facility with a capacity to match ... More  Suzi Gablik, art critic who took modernism to task, dies at 87NEW YORK, NY.- Suzi Gablik, an art critic, author and theorist who once championed modernism and was once an artist of that persuasion but found fame when she turned against it, died May 7 at a hospice facility in Blacksburg, Virginia. She was 87. Her death was confirmed by a friend, Tacie Jones, who said Gablik had congestive heart disease. In the mid-1950s, the art scene in New York City was small and contained, a tiny tribe where everyone knew one another. Gablik, who made literary and hallucinogenic collages of animals and nature images torn from magazines they look like scenes from Eden, before the fall was part of it. Among her crowd, no one was famous yet. Jasper Johns, who was working as a clerk at Marlboro Books on West 57th Street, was her best friend; she called him my Fred Astaire. Robert Rauschenberg ... More  Intersect Aspen 2022 returns for its second year in person with 31 galleries from 21 citiesASPEN, CO.- Intersect Art and Design announces the second in-person edition of Intersect Aspen, an art fair taking place at the Aspen Ice Garden from July 31 through August 4, 2022, bringing together a dynamic mix of modern and contemporary art and design galleries, activated by timely and original programming. The Fair will include 31 galleries from 21 cities around the globe, and will be open to the public daily, July 31 through August 4, from 11am to 5pm. The Fair will also be presented online at Artsy.net from July 31 through August 31. Becca Hoffman, Managing Director of Intersect Art and Design says, Theres nothing like Aspen, especially in the summertime. On the heels of our successful inaugural 2021 Aspen Fair, were delighted to return for our next edition, bringing together a dynamic mix of galleries, cultural partners, curators, ... More  AstaGuru announces 'Heirloom Jewellery, Silver, and Exceptional Timepieces' auction MUMBAI.- AstaGurus upcoming Heirloom Jewellery, Silver, and Exceptional Timepieces auction will present a stellar collection of 132 lots and is scheduled to take place on May 30-31, 2022. The meticulously curated catalogue offers a comprehensive insight into the rich craftsmanship and design heritage of the Indian subcontinent and the western world. The jewellery section offers traditional Indian jewellery, western-style jewellery, and pieces executed with natural pearls, Burmese rubies, Zambian emeralds, and high-quality diamonds. The auction will also showcase creations by celebrated brands from the west such as Cartier, Tiffany, and Jean Été. A unique creation by Nanubhai Jewellers formerly based in Mumbai will also be presented. Helmed by Nanubhai Jhaveri, the jeweller enjoyed the patronage ... More  Dutch art historian Simon Morsink appointed new director of Museum of Russian IconsCLINTON, MASS.- Dutch art historian and icon expert Simon Morsink, director of the Morsink Icon Gallery in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has been appointed the new executive director of the Museum of Russian Icons. Morsink replaces Founding Director Kent dur Russell, who recently announced his retirement after 16 years at the Clinton museum. A leading specialist in Russian icons, Greek icons and Ethiopian and Byzantine Art, Morsink is well known to private collectors and museum curators worldwide. For more than 30 years he has run, together with his brother Hugo, the internationally renowned Morsink Icon Gallery in Amsterdam that specializes in icons created between the 15th and 19th centuries. He served as Senior Consultant in Russian and Greek Icons for Sothebys in London from 2007-2020. Morsink contributed ... More  The Studio Museum in Harlem appoints Amber Esseiva to Curator-At-LargeHARLEM, NY.- Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, today announced the appointment of Amber Esseiva as Curator-at-Large, a newly created position. Esseiva currently serves as Curator for the Institute of Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University and has extensive curatorial, programming, and strategic planning experience. In this new role, she will work closely with the Museums curatorial team to advise on exhibitions and acquisitions, manage artist relationships, and participate in the Museums mission-related artist advocacy work, all while fortifying her ongoing research. Thelma Golden said, It is a sincere pleasure to welcome Amber Esseiva to The Studio Museum in Harlem. Over her notable career, Amber has worked closely with artists across all disciplines, ... More  Paul Fraser Collectibles offers Fidel Castro & Che Guevara personal property collectionBRISTOL.- UK memorabilia dealer Paul Fraser Collectibles launches the Fidel Castro & Che Guevara Personal Property Collection Auction today, Thursday, May 26. The online auction, which closes on June 23, stars: ● Fidel Castros secret message cigar box with hidden doors, and secret letter. Used by Castro to organise the Cuban revolution while in prison from 1953-1955. Estimate: £100,000+ ● Che Guevaras personal water bottle from the Cuban revolution. Signed by Guevara to avoid contracting malaria through using the wrong bottle. Estimate: £10,000+ ● Fidel Castros assassination-prevention cigar box. Castro signed the cigar box to mark it as his. Only he and his closest security team members could touch it. This minimised the risk of the CIA planting a bomb or poisoned cigar in the box. Estimate: ... More  Anne Rothenstein joins Stephen Friedman GalleryLONDON.- Rothensteins enigmatic paintings are frequently characterised by a dreamlike quality. Mysterious figures often populate her flattened landscapes and interiors. The artist draws inspiration from found imagery, personal experience and memory, working instinctively to communicate atmosphere and psychological tension. Rothensteins scenes are rendered with sinuous lines and a distinctive palette built up of thin washes of oil. Often painting directly on wood panel, the artist allows grain to blend with figure and landscape. Speaking of her artistic process, Rothenstein says, My reasons, or intentions, when making a particular painting are quite mysterious to me. The spark is always lit from an existing image, a photograph or another painting, and I often dont discover why that image leaped out at me or what it is Im exploring ... More  In a remote Thai village, digging for clues to a lost pilotBAAN MAE KUA.- Ten-year-old Sao Yotkantha was helping his father in their rice field when he heard the roar of an airplane unusually close. He looked up and saw a twin-engine plane hit the ground a half-mile away and burst into flames. It was World War II, and the crash of the U.S. aircraft was the biggest event in the history of Baan Mae Kua, a small village in northern Thailand. I heard a rumbling sound and saw a flying boat, as Thais called it back then, recalled an animated Sao, now 87. It was really close. It wasnt like any sound I heard before, and then I saw it go down. The airplane, a P-38 Lightning, was on a reconnaissance mission over Thailand and Burma, now Myanmar, when it was most likely struck by lightning and fell from the sky. Heavy rains extinguished the blaze. Sao rushed to the scene with his ... More |
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At the Dawn of a New Age
Flashback On a day like today, French painter Georges Rouault was born May 27, 1871. Georges Henri Rouault (27 May 1871, Paris - 13 February 1958) was a French painter, draughtsman, and printer, whose work is often associated with Fauvism and Expressionism. In this image: Georges Rouault (French 1871-1958), Tristes Os, 1934. Color etching and aquatint wove paper, 12 1/4" x 7 7/8". SUAC 1975.22.08.
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