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File photo of works in the retrospective "Raymond Pettibon: A Pen of All Work," from left: No Title (Think, How Were), 2011; No Title (As to Me), 2015; and No Title (Let Me Say), 2012, at the New Museum in New York, Feb. 7, 2017. Philip Greenberg/The New York Times.
by Ed Shanahan
NEW YORK, NY.- In a message posted on Twitter two years ago, artist Raymond Pettibon expressed his gratitude to two friends who had paid him a visit. Thank you Christian Rosa and Henry Taylor for coming by, he wrote. Great artists and kind, genuine people. You made my day. But at the time, according to federal prosecutors, Rosa was actually involved in something that was the opposite of genuine: He was scheming to sell forgeries of Pettibons work. In an indictment announced Wednesday, Rosa was charged with wire fraud in the sale of four paintings that were purportedly Pettibons work and that were backed by certificates of authenticity on which Rosa is accused of forging Pettibons signature. Rosa swindled buyers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and risked a New York artists legacy, through his forgery scheme, Damian Williams, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, said in a statement. Rosa, 43, had been living in California but fled the Unit ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Galerie Kornfeld, Frieze Masters 2021. Photo by Deniz Guzel. Courtesy of Deniz Guzel/Frieze.
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| Sotheby's ramps up NFT operations | | Powerful auction veterans aim new company at Asian market | | Shredded Banksy canvas sells for record £18.58 million | 
Yuga Labs, Bored Ape Yacht Club #8817. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby's auction house launched a dedicated platform for collectors of NFTs Thursday and announced a twice-a-year sale of the digital objects, a sign of its commitment to the craze. A non-fungible token (NFT) is a digital object that can be a drawing, animation, piece of music, photo, or video with a certificate of authenticity created by blockchain technology. This authentication by a network of computers is considered inviolable. They have become hugely popular against the backdrop of the pandemic, boosting the contemporary art market. According to a report published by Artprice this month, NFT sales now represent two percent of the global art market. Almost unknown a year ago, they have broken records at auctions. In March, Christie's sold a fully digital artwork by American artist Beeple for $69.3 million in March. In July, Sotheby's sold the World Wide Web source code for $5.4 million. ... More | | 
Amy Cappellazzo, left, and Yuki Terase have created an international art advisory firm with their former Sothebys colleague Adam Chinn, to be headquartered in New York and Hong Kong. Photo: Nicolas Newbold.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK, NY.- In the latest sign of the disruption underway in the art market amid the pandemic, three powerful alumni from Sothebys have joined forces to create a new company that will focus on the rapidly growing pool of buyers in Asia. Amy Cappellazzo, former chair of Sothebys fine art division, and Yuki Terase, former head of contemporary art in Asia, in November will begin operating an international art advisory firm that handles transactions and offers market expertise, advising on the acquisition of works of art or the dissolution of collections. Adam Chinn, another founding partner and Sotheby's former chief operating officer, will handle the companys business and legal operations. The market for major collectors in United ... More | | 
9 bidders in the room, online & over the phone chased the work for 10 minutes. Courtesy Sotheby's.
by Joe Jackson / Callum Paton
LONDON.- A partially shredded canvas of one of Banksy's most celebrated works sold at auction in London on Thursday for £18.58 million ($25.38 million), a new record for the British artist, three years after the artwork was bought for a fraction of that price. The artwork -- now called "Love is in the Bin" -- sold for nearly £1.1 million at the same Sotheby's auction house location in October 2018, before it dramatically passed through a shredder hidden in the large Victorian-style frame moments later. The surreal prank was orchestrated by the elusive and irreverent Banksy, whose identity is said to be known to only a handful of friends, and caused a global sensation. Thursday evening's sale, which saw nine bidders battle for around 10 minutes for the work formerly called "Girl With Balloon", beats the previous record of £16.75 ... More |
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| Frieze London art fair returns after pandemic break | | Julie Bargmann wins global Oberlander Prize with $100,000 award | | Anne Imhof's stylish (and shareable) provocations | 
Thaddaeus Ropac, Frieze Masters 2021. Photo by Deniz Guzel. Courtesy of Deniz Guzel/Frieze.
LONDON.- Britain's prestigious annual art fair, Frieze London, reopened on Wednesday, for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic forced it online. Staged in giant tents in Regent's Park, as well as across the 410-acre (170-hectare) green space, the event showcases both contemporary art and earlier works, including Old Masters. The organisers cancelled the physical event last year because of the challenges thrown up by the pandemic, instead creating a platform for commercial galleries to show art online. This year, with the art market returning to physical shows, more than 150 galleries are involved, but visitors have to show proof of vaccination or a negative test. "Everyone is just so excited and happy," said Nathan Clements-Gillespie, artistic director at Frieze Masters. "It's been nice seeing all these friendly faces, seeing the exhibitors back in the tent. "Everything about ... More | | 
Julie Bargmann, 2021 Oberlander Prize laureate. Photo © Barrett Doherty courtesy The Cultural Landscape Foundation.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Cultural Landscape Foundation today announced that Julie Bargmann is the winner of the inaugural Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize (Oberlander Prize). The biennial Oberlander Prize, which includes a $100,000 award, two years of public engagement activities focused on the laureates work and landscape architecture more broadly and is named for the late landscape architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, is bestowed on a recipient who is exceptionally talented, creative, courageous, and visionary and has a significant body of built work that exemplifies the art of landscape architecture. The Oberlander Prize Jury Citation notes of Bargmann: She has been a provocateur, a critical practitioner, and a public intellectual. She embodies the kind of activism ... More | | 
An installation by Anne Imhof at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Oct. 11, 2021. Elliott Verdier/The New York Times.
by Thomas Rogers
PARIS.- German artist Anne Imhof stood in the Palais de Tokyo on a recent Friday morning, watching a group of fashionably dressed dancers and models crawling on the floor. It was the final stretch of rehearsals for a series of performances she had devised, set to begin Thursday. The eight young people were figuring out the right speed to cross one of the Paris museums expansive exhibition spaces. Imhof, 43, towered above the crawling performers in cowboy boots and jogging pants. Go slow, very slow, she told them. When they reached the other side, 10 minutes later, they turned on their backs and stared at imagined spectators, with expressions of studied boredom. Very good, Imhof said, looking pleased. The rehearsals were ... More |
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| Exuberant art and cable car can lift a poor, violent place only so high | | An Italian art haven along the Hudson | | Nicola Vassell Gallery now representing Ming Smith | 
A mural by artist Miguel Tenorio on a house in Mexico Citys sprawling borough of Iztapalapa, Sept. 10, 2021. Luis Antonio Rojas/The New York Times.
by Oscar Lopez
MEXICO CITY.- Observed from a soaring cable car, the city is a sea of concrete stretching to the horizon, ruptured only by clusters of skyscrapers and the remains of ancient volcanoes. Some 60 feet below is the borough of Iztapalapa, a warren of winding streets and alleyways, its cinder block houses encasing the neighborhoods hills in insipid gray. But then, on a rooftop, a sudden burst of color: a giant monarch butterfly perched atop a purple flower. Farther along the route of Mexico Citys newest cableway, a toucan and a scarlet macaw stare up at passengers. Later, on a canary yellow wall, there is a young girl in a red dress, her eyes closed in an expression of absolute bliss. The 6.5-mile line, inaugurated in August, is the longest public cableway in the world, according to the city government. As well as halving the commute time for many workers in the capitals most populous ... More | | 
Magazzino Italian Art, a museum of postwar and contemporary work, in Cold Spring, N.Y., July 11, 2020. Tony Cenicola/The New York Times.
by Marisa Meltzer
NEW YORK, NY.- On a breezy Saturday last month, Vittorio Calabrese, the director of the Magazzino Italian Art museum in Cold Spring, New York, stood onstage in the courtyard to introduce the last event of the summer, a concert by musician Sam Reider and his band the Human Hands. The sun was starting to set, and a few stragglers of the sold-out crowd found their seats. Most of the concertgoers were dressed casually in denim jackets and oversize oxford shirts. But Calabrese, a native of Irpinia, Italy, wore a blue suit, loafers and, for a touch of sprezzatura, the Italian concept of nonchalant style, striped socks with several inches visible. Reider, he said, was going to play a song inspired by Ennio Morricone in the tradition of the American murder ballad. It wasnt exactly Volare, but that has never been the point of the foundation. The biggest challenge is to avoid stereotypes ... More | | 
Amen Corner Sisters (Harlem, New York), 1976. Archival pigment print, 36 x 24.25 in / 91.4 x 61.5 cm (paper).
NEW YORK, NY.- Nicola Vassell Gallery announced the representation of Ming Smith. Harlem-based, Detroit-born Ming Smith became a photographer when she was given a camera at a young age. She was the first female member to join Kamoinge, a collective of Black photographers in New York in the 1960s who documented Black life. Her work was first published in the Black Photographer's Annual in 1973 and she would go on to be the first Black woman photographer to be included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Her practice is a tale of five decades spent examining transitory occurrence-intervals at which figures blur, atmospheres alter, vistas haunt, souls whir, and opposites engage in allied work. Smith's photographic approach is both scientific and celestial, and experimentation and adventure mark her fascination with detail as it stretches across form and mood. Her dedication to music, dance, and theater underlines ... More |
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| The Beatles are back with a happier ending | | Hake's Nov. 2-3 Premier Auction led by Capt. America hero prop shield screen-used by Chris Evans in 'Avengers: Endgame' | | Mary Bloom, photographer to the dog stars, dies at 81 | 
This file photo taken on July 29, 1965 shows English band The Beatles performing on stage during a concert, in London. C.PRESS / AFP.
PARIS.- The Beatles are back this autumn with a new book, reworked final album and much-anticipated documentary that sheds new light on their fraught final days. "Let It Be", released in 1970, has long been considered the legendary group's breakup album. That is partly because it was the last album they released, and also because it was followed by a making-of documentary that showed deep tensions among the fab four. However it's not that simple: "Let It Be" was actually recorded before 1969's "Abbey Road" but sat on the shelf for a year because the band weren't satisfied with it. In fact, Paul McCartney was never satisfied, having been left out of the mixing sessions by fabled producer Phil Spector. A new remix of the album by Giles Martin -- son of The Beatles' usual producer George Martin -- aims to bring it closer to the band's wishes. But speaking to NME this week, Giles Martin admitted that "Paul's main issue with what happened is that he n ... More | | 
Captain America hero-prop shield created by Marvel Studios senior prop master Russell Bobbitt and used by Chris Evans for close-up shots in the 2019 film Avengers: Endgame. One of the most important Marvel film props ever to come to auction. Near-pristine condition. Open estimate with an opening bid of $20,000.
YORK, PA.- After two consecutive auctions that broke existing house records, Hakes is back with a blockbuster November 2-3 Premier Auction that could push the pop culture giants 2021 gross beyond the $10 million mark. Between the red-hot state of the vintage collectibles market and an influx of new, investment-minded collectors coming into the hobby, new records are likely to be set not only by the November auction as a whole, but also in a number of pop-culture subcategories, said Hakes president Alex Winter. Our June auction went beyond all expectations, with a Pokémon Shadowless Holographic uncut proof sheet selling for an unheard-of world auction-record price of $234,171 and a Babe Ruth button that set a new world auction record at $70,092. Of all of the auctions ... More | | 
Mary Bloom at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden in New York, Feb. 16, 2010. Julie Glassberg/The New York Times.
by Richard Sandomir
NEW YORK, NY.- Mary Bloom, a champion of animals who as a staff photographer for the Westminster Kennel Club shot its annual dog show with a careful eye to illustrating the bond between dogs and the handlers who lead them around judging rings, died Sept. 28 in Poughkeepsie, New York. She was 81. Her nephew Robert McLoughlin said the cause was gallbladder cancer. Bloom was a familiar sight at Westminster: With her brown curls framing her face, she knelt and crawled on legs weakened by neuropathy to find the right pictures of breed winners on the floor at Madison Square Garden. Over her 21 years with the show, beginning in 1995, she sometimes jostled and shouted her way through a scrum of photographers to get prime position for a shot, and she admonished handlers if they misbehaved. Shed say to handlers, Get your hands off ... More |
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 This pristine beach is one of Japan's last. Soon it will be filled with concrete.KATOKU.- Standing on its mountain-fringed beach, there is no hint that the Japanese village of Katoku even exists. Its handful of houses hide behind a dune covered with morning glories and pandanus trees, the chitter of cicadas interrupted only by the cadence of waves and the call of an azure-winged jay. In July, the beach became part of a new UNESCO World Heritage Site, a preserve of verdant peaks and mangrove forests in far southwestern Japan that is home to almost a dozen endangered species. Two months later, the placid air was split by a new sound: the rumble of trucks and excavators preparing to strip away a large section of Katokus dune and bury inside of it a two-story-tall concrete wall meant to curb erosion. The sea wall project demonstrates how not even the most precious ecological treasures can survive Japans ... More  Review: 'Thoughts of a Colored Man' preaches to the choirNEW YORK, NY.- Seven Black men step onto the stage in the opening of Keenan Scott IIs Thoughts of a Colored Man. Over the course of the play, each will reveal a personality and history, but not a name, though later they will introduce themselves as Love, Happiness, Wisdom, Lust, Passion, Depression and Anger. Wearing different combinations of black, gray and red, they stand staring at a hulking billboard that reads COLORED in declarative black caps. One of them then asks the question that begins the play: Who is the Colored Man? Its a question that Scotts Broadway debut, which opened Wednesday night at the John Golden Theater, doesnt quite know how to answer. Incorporating slam poetry, prose and songs performed by its cast of seven, Thoughts of a Colored Man, which first premiered in 2019 at Syracuse Stage in a co-production with Baltimore ... More  Yunior Garcia: Cuban playwright takes on the governmentHAVANA.- Cuba's government has banned a protest planned for November 15, but Yunior Garcia isn't too bothered -- the 39-year-old actor and playwright wants to march for change and freedom, no matter what happens after that. Garcia, his glasses perched on his nose, has a youthful air. He smokes a cigarette on the balcony of his apartment in La Coronela, a working-class Havana neighborhood, though high prices due to widespread shortages and the obvious health consequences have made him rethink the habit. The night before, Garcia -- who is emerging as a major figure in Cuba's opposition movement -- was the subject of a report on state television. The piece condemned his call for protest as a "provocation" and accused him of being backed by the United States, "which is promoting the destabilization of Cuba." But three months ... More  The Barnes Foundation announces appointment of James Claiborne, Curator of Public ProgramsPHILLADELPHIA, PA.- Thom Collins, Neubauer Family Executive Director and President of the Barnes Foundation, today announced the appointment of James Claiborne as the Barness new Curator of Public Programs. A program and visual arts curator and educator with over 15 years of experience in the nonprofit cultural sector, Claiborne most recently served as the Public Director of Programming at the African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP). He began his post at the Barnes in September. At AAMP, Claiborne shaped the vision and strategy for inclusive cultural programming that supported the institutions mission, and he was responsible for developing new programs that expanded the museums role as a center of creative inquiry. Prior his tenure at AAMP, which spanned from 2015 through 2021, Claiborne served as the Community Engagement ... More  Netflix, UNESCO team up for Africa talent huntPARIS.- Netflix has launched a project with the UN's cultural body on Thursday to hunt out young filmmakers from sub-Saharan Africa and explore traditional folktales from the region. "African Folktales, Reimagined" teams the US streaming giant with UNESCO to find six young directors to make a short film to be aired on Netflix next year. Each director will get a $75,000 budget for the film and $25,000 for themselves. "This initiative aims to seek out new talents and great folk tales which are a very important part of our heritage and culture in Africa," said Ben Amadasun, head of original content and acquisitions for Netflix in Africa. The streaming giant is trying to establish itself in the continent through investments in young talent. The US company has had considerable success picking up shows from around the world and giving them a global audience ... More  Le Carré's final, elegiac novel released posthumouslyLONDON.- John le Carré's final novel was published posthumously in Britain on Thursday -- although the British spy author's son has raised the tantalising prospect of more material to come. "Silverview" centres around an unlikely friendship in a seaside town between a former city banker and a Polish émigré. Secrets unfold, and le Carré's deep ambivalence towards the methods and ethics of his former employers in British intelligence is again on display. But the 224-page novel also dwells more than his previous works on ageing and mortality. Le Carré died of pneumonia in December, aged 89. He would have turned 90 on October 19. Born David Cornwell, the spy-turned-writer left an indelible mark on English literature, injecting high literary quality into gripping tales of espionage. His four sons approved the publication of "Silverview" by Penguin Viking, ... More  Pan-African film fest defies pandemic and jihadistsOUAGADOUGOU.- Africa's biggest film festival kicks off on Saturday in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou, delayed eight months by the Covid-19 pandemic and overshadowed by a brutal six-year-old jihadist insurgency. Seventeen feature-length works are in the main competition for the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO), the biggest date in the continent's cinema and TV industry. Held every two years, the hugely popular festival was initially set for February 27-March 6 but was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. The impoverished landlocked country is also battling jihadist gunmen who have killed around 2,000 people since 2015 and forced 1.4 million to flee their homes. "We are aware of the (safety) situation and every measure has been taken," the festival's director Alex Moussa Sawadogo ... More  Destination Crenshaw moves ahead with a first round of public sculpturesLOS ANGELES, CA.- A new, bronze sculpture by Kehinde Wiley of a 21st-century African woman on horseback, part of his popular series that radically updates Confederate war monuments, is heading to South Los Angeles. The citys Cultural Affairs Department voted Wednesday to approve the placement of Wileys artwork, along with six others, in a 1.3-mile-long, $100-million cultural corridor under development. Called Destination Crenshaw, the stretch is devoted to bringing Black art and design to new, outdoor community spaces. These artworks, by Wiley, Charles Dickson, Melvin Edwards, Maren Hassinger, Artis Lane, Alison Saar and Brenna Youngblood, are expected to be installed by the end of next year. The plan is to commission at least 100 sculptures, murals and other artworks by 2027, creating the largest public art exhibition by Black ... More  Review: The Met's 'Turandot,' strongly sung, garishly stagedNEW YORK, NY.- By opening its season a few weeks ago with Terence Blanchards Fire Shut Up in My Bones, the first work by a Black composer in its history, the Metropolitan Opera was attempting to engage with the present moment, in all its roiling complexities. But on Tuesday the old Met, a company of grand tradition and unabashed spectacle, returned with a revival of Puccinis Turandot in Franco Zeffirellis glittering, gaudy, opulent, tacky and overwhelmingly popular 1987 production. When this production was last mounted, in the fall of 2019, the lead roles of Turandot, an icy Chinese princess, and Calà f, the prince who seeks to win her love, were sung splendidly by soprano Christine Goerke and tenor Yusif Eyvazov. Assuming these demanding parts again Tuesday, they were even better. But 2019 seems a long time ago. Much ... More  A female conductor joins the ranks of top U.S. orchestrasNEW YORK, NY.- The 25 largest orchestras in the United States have something in common: Not one is led by a woman. But that is about to change. The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra announced Wednesday that it had chosen Nathalie Stutzmann, a conductor and singer from France, as its next music director. Stutzmann, 56, will be only the second woman in history to lead a top-tier U.S. orchestra when she takes the podium in Atlanta next year. She follows Marin Alsop, whose tenure as music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra ended in August after 14 years. Stutzmann said she hoped her selection would inspire other orchestras to appoint women. Im not looking for a world dominated by women, she said in a video call. Im just looking for equality that we will one day not be considered as a minority, but as musicians, conductors and maestros ... More  An 'allegory for our times': The Royal Ballet's 'Dante Project'LONDON.- Be like a jellyfish, Wayne McGregor said, undulating his upper body expressively. The dancers on the darkened stage of the Royal Opera House on a recent afternoon looked at him for a moment. Then as one, they practiced being like jellyfish. McGregor, the resident choreographer at the Royal Ballet, laughed. Gorgeous! he said, moving off to talk to a stagehand who was adjusting artist Tacita Deans huge monochrome backdrop, used in the first part of McGregors new and long-awaited Dante Project. The dancers were incarnating the tormented souls of Inferno, the opening section of the full-length Dante Project, which is to have its premiere Thursday. With a new score by Thomas Adès and design by Dean two of the most important artists of their generation it is among the Royal Ballets most significant commissions in recent ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French artist James Tissot was born October 15, 1836. James Jacques Joseph Tissot (15 October 1836 - 8 August 1902) was a French painter, who spent much of his career in Britain. Tissot exhibited in the Paris Salon for the first time in 1859, where he showed five paintings of scenes from the Middle Ages, many depicting scenes from Goethe's Faust. These works show the influence of the Belgian painter Henri Leys (Jan August Hendrik Leys), whom Tissot had met in Antwerp in 1859, over his work. In this image: Le Balcon du Cercle de la rue Royale (The Circle of the Rue Royale), 1868.
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