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Jane Kallir, president of Kallir Research Institute, holds a copy of Egon Schieles Standing Girl, in New York, Aug. 27, 2021. Experts say discredited works of art often resurface on the market again and again, in part because their owners just wont take no for an answer. Jeenah Moon/The New York Times.
by Milton Esterow
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Anyone who thinks works of art declared to be fake simply disappear in disgrace or are destroyed should talk to Jane Kallir, the author of the catalog raisonné for Egon Schiele, the Austrian painter. She was offered the same fake Schiele watercolor for authentication, she said, 10 times by 10 different collectors. Or perhaps chat with David L. Hall, the former federal prosecutor who used to handle cases developed by the FBIs art crime team. He will tell you about a watercolor attributed to Andrew Wyeth that came on the market three times after Wyeth himself called it a fake. One dealer had paid $20,000 for it, and when he tried to sell it at auction in 2008, the curator of Wyeths collection recognized it and contacted the FBI, which seized it. The FBI ultimately gave it to Hall as a token of appreciation for all the years he spent pursuing the cases it had developed. Its on a shelf in my office, Hall, now in private practice, said in an interview. Wh ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A picture taken on September 2, 2021 shows the work of Brazilian photographer Mauro Restiffe during the press day ahead of the opening of the 34th Biennale of Sao Paulo, at Ibirapuera park, in São Paulo, Brazil. NELSON ALMEIDA / AFP.
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| Norway seizes 100 Iraqi archaeological objects | | Partially shredded Banksy painting to go back on sale | | Max Liebermann's heirs compensated for Nazi-looted painting | 
Missing ancient artefacts seized. Photo: The Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime (Ãkokrim).
OSLO (AFP).- Norwegian police said Friday they have seized nearly 100 Mesopotamian archaeological artefacts, claimed by Iraq, from a collector. "The seizure involves what are presumed to be cuneiform tablets and other archaeological objects from Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq ... considered important to the world's historical cultural heritage," the police said in a statement. The objects were seized during a search of a collector's house in southeast Norway. They are the subject of a restitution request from Iraqi authorities to the Norwegian Ministry of Culture. "A restitution procedure has been initiated, but an expert review must first be carried out to determine the origin and authenticity of these objects and the Iraqi authorities must document their request," prosecutor Maria Bache Dahl told AFP. The collector in question is contesting the Iraqi request, she said, adding ... More | | 
Banksy, Love is in the Bin. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON (AFP).- A canvas by British artist Banksy, which was partially shredded moments after selling at auction in 2018, will go back under the hammer next month, Sotheby's said on Friday. The artwork -- now called "Love is in the Bin" -- will be offered for sale by the London auction house on October 14, with an estimated selling price of £4-6 million ($6-8 million, 5-7 million euros). The painting, originally entitled "Girl with Balloon", sold for nearly £1.1 million at the same location in October 2018 and is now being resold by the unnamed collector who purchased it. The canvas unexpectedly passed through a shredder hidden in the large Victorian-style frame moments after bidding ended, partially destroying it and stunning the art world. The prank was orchestrated by the elusive and irreverent Banksy, whose identity is said to be known to only a handful of friends. "That surreal evening three years ago, I became the accidental -- but very privileged -- owner of 'Love is in the Bin'," the collecto ... More | | 
Martha Liebermann, as painted by her husband, in a 1930 portrait. Photo: AKG-Images.
by Catherine Hickley
BERLIN (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- A decadelong dispute over a portrait of Max Liebermanns wife, painted by the German impressionist himself, and confiscated by the Nazis from her home here in 1943, has been settled with a financial payment to the artists heirs. In a joint statement with the heirs, the Georg Schäfer Foundation, which came to own the 1930 portrait and two other works from Liebermanns collection, said an anonymous private donor agreed to pay an undisclosed amount to the heirs in compensation for the three works. The settlement aims to treat the historical facts truthfully and with dignity and solve the dilemma between applicable law on the one hand and moral claims and justice on the other, the statement said. It includes an agreement that the provenance of the works will be clearly displayed in the Georg Schäfer Museum in Schweinfurt in northern ... More |
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| 34th Bienal de Sao Paulo opens its main exhibition | | The Museum of Contemporary Art announces Johanna Burton as Executive Director | | Paula Cooper Gallery announces representation of the work of Luciano Fabro | 
Installation view. © Levi Fanan / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo.
SAO PAULO.- The largest visual art event in Latin America, after a one-year postponement due to the pandemic, will open its main exhibition Faz escuro mas eu canto [Though its dark, still I sing] this Saturday, September 4, at 10am local time with more than one thousand works by 91 artists. Extended by one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the show that is opening now has been readjusted to the times of pandemic, with strict protocols defined together with 9 de Julho Hospital, and a food court outside the Pavilion, in an open space. The curators are Jacopo Crivelli Visconti (chief curator), Paulo Miyada (adjunct curator), and Carla Zaccagnini, Francesco Stocchi and Ruth Estévez (guest curators). Visitation will run until December 5, always with free admission. This edition, which begun in February 2020, has been unfolding in space and in time with both physical and online programming, and culminates now in the group show that occupies the entire Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion, concomitantly wi ... More | | 
Burton comes to MOCA after an accomplished tenure as Executive Director of the Wexner Center for the Arts. Photo: Erin Leland.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art announced the appointment of Johanna Burton as Executive Director to lead the museum in partnership with Klaus Biesenbach, the Maurice Marciano Artistic Director. Burton comes to MOCA after an accomplished tenure as Executive Director of the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University where she has concentrated on developing initiatives that build and strengthen staff, artist, and audience engagement, and which strongly consider museums role as a space of civic exchange. MOCAs Board of Trustees today elected Burton to start on November 1, 2021. MOCA announced the creation of the Executive Director role in February 2021 and launched an international search under the guidance of a search committee that includes David Johnson, Karyn Kohl, Barbara Kruger, Wonmi Kwon, Catherine Opie, Sean Parker, Heather Podesta, Carolyn Powers, Maria Seferian, ... More | | 
Luciano Fabro, L'Infinito, 1989, steel cable and marble, 17 3/4 x 315 x 236 1/4 in. Photo: Paolo Pellion, courtesy Castello di Rivoli Museo dArte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino. © Silvia Fabro (Archivio Luciano e Carla Fabro).
NEW YORK, NY.- Paula Cooper Gallery announced representation of the work of Luciano Fabro in collaboration with the Archivio Luciano e Carla Fabro. Luciano Fabro (19362007) was a central figure in a wide-ranging movement to question and redefine sculpture in post-war Italy, a movement initiated by predecessors such as Fausto Melotti and Lucio Fontana that culminated in the 1960s and 1970s with the artists grouped under the label of Arte Povera, to which Fabro gave his own distinctive inflection. Though closely associated with Arte Povera, Fabro viewed himself as the heretic of the Arte Povera church. Like his peers, he approached sculpture from a conceptual angle, as a mode of critique of contemporary culture; and similarly, he employed poor, or rather unconventional and often unprocessed materials as varied as rocks, ... More |
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| Halle Für Kunst opens solo exhibitions of the work of artists Kevin Jerome Everson and Doreen Garner | | Photographs from celebrated space historian J.L. Pickering land at Heritage Auctions | | Unfinished Beethoven symphony reimagined in a click | 
Doreen Garner, THE PALE ONE, 2020. Silicone, urethane foam, pearls, Swarovski crystals, barbered wire, hair weave, fluorescent light, aluminum, steel, 153 x 91 x 113 cm. Courtesy the artist and JTT, New York.
GRAZ.- HALLE FÃR KUNST Steiermark presents the fall program 2021 with two large solo exhibitions of the work of the Afro-American artists Kevin Jerome Everson and Doreen Garner. These two exhibitions mark a further highlight for the new institution in its inaugural year 2021. The artistic positions of Everson and Garner draw attention to political discourses in the US, and in particular to the lives of Afro-Americans past and present. While Kevin Jerome Everson (b. 1965, Mansfield, OH, lives in Charlottseville VA) accompanies various black communities, documenting their lives and places of work with his camera, the young artist Doreen Garner (b. 1986, Philadelphia, lives in New York) uses a specific approach to sculpture to address the fates of Afro-American women who in the second half of the 19th century were victims of operations ... More | | 
Apollo 11 Original NASA 70mm Film Strip, Magazine 40, Frames 5900-5904 and 5942-5944 (estimate: $1,500+).
DALLAS, TX.- J.L. Pickering has devoted his career as an archivist of images of space and related objects and artifacts. He is considered one of the foremost historians of space travel and exploration, covering them for outlets such as CNN, the Discovery Channel and SiriusXM. Now, more than 300 photographs directly from his personal collection (of some 100,000 black and white and color) are being offered in Heritage Auctions' Sept. 24 Images of Apollo: The J.L. Pickering Collection Auction. Featuring vintage photos and film strips from legendary NASA missions including Apollo 7, Apollo 8, Apollo 10 and Apollo 11, this is a jaw-dropping collection. From lift-off to walking on the moon (and everything in between), many of these images of very rare. "We are incredibly excited to offer such an extensive collection of these iconic images," said Brad Palmer, Consignment Director/Cataloger for Heritage's Space Exploration department. "Our recent ... More | | 
A member of Nexus orchestra annotates a music score on his tablet computer during a rehearsal in Lausanne on September 2, 2021. Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP.
by Nina Larson and Eloi Rouyer
LAUSANNE (AFP).- As conductor Guillaume Berney marks the opening downbeat, the first chords ring out in a Lausanne concert hall of what could conceivably be an extract of Beethoven's Tenth Symphony -- if the great German composer had ever managed to complete the piece. The classical music world has often speculated what Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) would have gone on to write after his monumental Ninth Symphony. And a number of musicologists and composers have already ventured to orchestrate and complete some of the scraps of notation they believe were his first sketches for his next symphonic masterpiece. But to mark their 10th anniversary season this year, Berney and the Nexus orchestra have decided to use artificial intelligence to create a four-minute ... More |
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| Kolkata's 'fairy tale' trams, once essential, are now a neglected relic | | Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen opens an exhibition of works by Anna Boghiguian | | Boaz Kaizman develops a new work for exhibition at Museum Ludwig | 
A tram on College Street in Kolkata, India, on July 20, 2021. The few tram riders left say the 140-year-old system makes sense for a city of 15 million struggling with pollution and overcrowding, but many trips now are more nostalgic than necessary. Rebecca Conway/The New York Times.
by Emily Schmall
KOLKATA (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The tram rattled along College Street, passing dozens of book stalls and announcing itself with the quaint chime of a bell. A gentle breeze from its open windows and antique ceiling fans cut the humid summer heat. Sounds and smells from the streets wafted in fresh fish splayed out on the sidewalk, the muezzins call to prayer as the tram passed vegetable wagons and ornate colonial buildings. You get all the flavors of Calcutta here, so its the best way to travel, said a medical student, Megha Roy, riding the tram with two friends. She used the Anglicized version of Kolkata, which residents deploy interchangeably with its current spelling and pronunciation. The three ... More | | 
Anna Boghiguian, Guilt Machine, 2013, Exhibition view, MGKSiegen, Courtesy the artist, Photo: Philipp Ottendörfer.
SIEGEN.- The Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen is presenting the first monographic museum exhibition in Germany of work by Anna Boghiguian (*1946 Cairo, EG). In her works, the Egyptian-Canadian artist of Armenian origin explores the impact of historical, economic and political events. From a very personal perspective and with deep roots in literature, the well-travelled artist engages with the worlds peoples, cultures, places and major connecting lines. Boghiguian translates her nomadic experiences into artists books, drawings, paintings, collages and installations. The exhibition Sometimes unexpectedly the present meets the past at MGKSiegen provides a comprehensive overview of Anna Boghiguians work in twelve rooms through ground-breaking spatial installations. In addition, new groups of works dealing with the construction of the Suez Canal and the time of the Spanish flu will be shown for ... More | | 
Boaz Kaizman, Josef Tal Atelier aus: Grünanlage, 2021. Videoinstallation. Museum Ludwig, Köln 3.9.2021 9.1.2022 © Boaz Kaizman.
COLOGNE.- On the anniversary year 2021: 1700 Years of Jewish Life in Germany, the Museum Ludwig has invited the artist Boaz Kaizman (born in 1962 in Tel Aviv, has lived and worked in Cologne since 1993) to develop a new work. The video installation Grünanlage (Green Area) comprises sixteen new videos in seven large projections across two walls. It will be presented in the large exhibition hall at the Museum Ludwig spanning around 200 square meters. Selected passages from individual videos can be heard in the exhibition space; at the same time, visitors can listen to the videos using headphones. Landscapes represent a common visual element between the works. Most of these are green areas in Cologne, places of functional and urbanized nature, and thus remain indefinite, between urban and natural space. Kaizman bases his installation on his own experience. He is shown doing everyday activitieson the way ... More |
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 Shara Hughes's first major solo museum exhibition in US features more than thirty paintings from 2015-21ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis presents the first major solo museum exhibition of Shara Hughes in the United States, featuring work from the past seven years, including more than thirty paintings, drawings, and prints. Hughes is often referred to as a landscape painter, but from the artists point of view, her paintings are not really about landscapes at all. The artist loosely gives form to floating moons, gnarled trees, and blazing sunlight, bridging the abstract and representational. The paintings contain psychological complexity bringing to life a world that is elegantly chaoticinfused with a vibrant harmony of the organic, the objective, and the surreal. At human scalethe size of her own wingspanmany of the works are immersive, inviting and alarming, beautiful and scary. Shara Hughes: On Edge offers an overview of her unworldly ... More  Bernhard Knaus Fine Art opens an exhibition of works by Myriam HolmeFRANKFURT.- In Myriam Holmes (*1971) new works, loose, gestural brushstrokes enter into dialogue with shimmering gold, silver and copper surfaces of composition metals. Bold spray can drawings stand next to coloured paper scraps, pieces of tape and variously applied watercolours. Colour pigments, soap, varnish, stain and various chemicals react with cool-looking aluminium surfaces, plastic foils or cast picture supports made of plaster - the diversity of materials in Myriam Holme's works is reminiscent of alchemists' kitchens or universal geniuses and yet is grounded in the socio-political here and now in cycles of recycling. At the same time, her handling of materialities is extremely diverse: bent, painted, glued, pressed through, rubbed, gilded and sometimes treated with chemicals, overlaid with soap or sprinkled with salt crystals - Myriam Holme's concept ... More  Gérard Dalla Santa opens an exhibition of photographs at Galerie MirandaPARIS.- For its fall 2021 exhibition, Galerie Miranda presents a personal exhibition by Gérard Dalla Santa (b. 1947, France). Entitled Des Paysages Longtemps, the exhibition takes its name from a short poem by Rainer Maria Rilke. The photographs presented in this solo show proceed from Gérard Dalla Santa's research into landscape that is anchored in two traditions: that of documentary photography and that of outdoor landscape painting (Corot, Courbet, Pissarro and Cézanne...) that considered the topography as well as the historical and collective dimension of landscape. Temporal markers punctuate the work of Gérard Dalla Santa, who captures, in the present tense of photography, the intersection between the time of landscape and the time of its representation. In his recent landscapes of river banks, the artist employs the picturesque ... More  Colombian photographer documents world's largest variety of butterfliesJARDIN (AFP).- Like the more than 3,000 species of butterflies in Colombia, agronomist Juan Guillermo Jaramillo underwent his own metamorphosis several years ago, as his passion for photographing nature took an unexpected twist. The 65-year-old, who used to run an animal feed business, originally took photographs of birds, but he is now a key figure in the world of Colombian butterflies. Jaramillo is the co-author of an inventory that led to Colombia being recognized as having the widest variety of butterfly species in the world. The list he worked on was published in the British Natural History Museum in London -- which has the world's largest collection of butterflies -- in June. The Checklist of Colombian Butterflies identifies 3,642 different species in the Andean country, which makes up 19.4 percent of the known global varieties. But Jaramillo ... More  They finally get to dance on BroadwayNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- No one but her puppy, Alfie, was with Ayla Ciccone-Burton when she heard the good news from her agent. I got up at the dog park in front of all these people that I dont know, she said. Im just running around, full screaming, telling my dog that Im going to be on Broadway. He didnt care, she added, and laughed an effervescent laugh. She loves him anyway. Like most performers, Ciccone-Burton wont be playing a starring role in her show. Shell be singing and dancing in the ensemble and making her Broadway debut. She and three other supporting performers, all scheduled for Broadway bows this fall, talked recently about what that means to them, and what they discovered about themselves and the industry when for such a long time it was all snatched away. Atticus Ware is 13 now, but he was 11 when ... More  Cesar Piette's first solo exhibition with Almine Rech opens in LondonLONDON.- Almine Rech London is presenting Cesar Piettes first solo exhibition with the gallery, from September 2 to 25, 2021. In conjunction with the exhibition, the artist is launching NFTs, offering the 3D modeling software files as original sketches through the Foundation platform. The high-resolution paintings of hyper-plastic reality by César Piette might feel like obvious eye candy at first, but its the complexity of the concept behind them that makes them a sweet food for thought. Determined to continue practices firmly rooted in art history, the artist is painting pictures of still lives, landscapes, and portraying people, through representational, narrative-free visuals. But unlike Dutch Golden Age painters that looked at the objects in front of them or through camera obscura, the French artist is constructing his reference imagery through 3D modeling software, ... More  Musicals return to Broadway with 'Waitress' and 'Hadestown'NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Sara Bareilles stepped onto the stage of the Ethel Barrymore Theater a few minutes after 7 p.m. Thursday, a white apron over her blue uniform and her face dusted with flour, as a looped recording of her voice began to intone pie ingredients. Sugar. Sugar. Sugar, butter. Sugar, butter. Sugar, butter, flour. And then, with a single note from a keyboard, a high piano chord and a whoosh from a cymbal, she launched into a song about baking. One hour later and one block north, André De Shields slowly walked across the stage of the Walter Kerr Theater in a two-piece silver suit with iridescent silver boots, and, after a long arresting pause, asked the cast, and then the audience, and then the trombonist, a short question: Aight? The actors assented; the audience applauded, and the trombonist, Brian ... More  Moving over: A powerhouse of Black dance is retiring (mostly)NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Rushing to our Zoom interview from an in-person audition at the Philadanco studios, Joan Myers Brown opened the conversation by making me laugh. She asked for a reminder of what we were doing and then said, What an honor, you want to talk about me only thing I usually talk about is Philadanco. Myers Brown is the keeper of all things Black dance, and Philadanco (or, the Philadelphia Dance Company) is the troupe she founded in 1970. Now, after more than 50 years, shes moving over, as she calls it, stepping back but not quite stepping away from the daily work of running the company. At 89 (she turns 90 on Christmas Day), she is full of energy, and her memory is impeccable. Given the floor, she will share her love of dance, especially Black dance, for which she has been a champion and an institution ... More  Richard Nelson's new play closes a chapter of theater historyNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- A character named Kate tells a story, of a story told to her, about a man attending a play. The actors are all deaf, and they rest their cheeks and chins on a big table, which stretches out to the audience, to feel the vibration of a spinning top. From his seat, the man leans in and puts his forehead on the surface. He wants to share in what the characters are feeling, Kate says. He wants to be at that table, too. Kates monologue is delivered almost in passing no one onstage even responds to it yet it reflects, in just a few lines, the mission and magic of Richard Nelsons decadelong, 12-play project called the Rhinebeck Panorama, which concludes with What Happened?: The Michaels Abroad, opening Sept. 8 at Hunter Colleges Frederick Loewe Theater. These works, written and directed ... More  Owens Daniels joins Reynolda House as art and community engagement fellowWINSTON-SALEM, NC.- Owens Daniels has joined Reynolda House Museum of American Art as a fellow focusing on community and art engagement. The fellowship has been funded by the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts Creative Catalyst program and Debbie and Mike Rubin, with additional support by Lynn and Barry Eisenberg. During the six-month fellowship, Daniels will focus on connecting the community with Reynoldas educational resources for children, families and adults. He will work with the Museums teaching and learning department staff to define new audiences, develop partnerships and expand the Museums volunteer base. At its core, Reynolda is an organization dedicated to learning and meeting the needs of our community, says Allison Perkins, executive director of Reynolda House. We are extremely grateful for the opportunity ... More  Doron Langberg opens his first solo exhibition with Victoria MiroLONDON.- Victoria Miro is presenting Give Me Love, the gallerys first solo exhibition by Doron Langberg. The exhibition will feature panoramic works alongside the chromatic depictions of figures in interiors for which the New York-based painter has become widely known. An increasingly prominent voice among a new generation of figurative painters, Doron Langberg has gained a reputation for works that hinge on a sense of closeness. Langbergs paintings, luminous in colour and often large in scale, celebrate the physicality of touch in subject matter and process. His intimate yet expansive take on relationships, sexuality, nature, family and the self proposes how painting can both portray and create queer subjectivity. For his first solo exhibition with the gallery Langberg shows paintings depicting a range of subjects from queer love to wildflowers ... More  'Dune' wows Venice with galactic-scale blockbusterVENICE (AFP).- Giant worms and inter-planetary battles rocked the Venice Film Festival on Friday as "Dune", one of the most hotly anticipated blockbusters in years, finally landed for its world premiere. It brought several gondolas worth of stars to the city's glitzy Lido island, with fans packing the waterfront for a glimpse of Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem. Based on a landmark of sci-fi literature about warring clans fighting for control of a desert planet, the film boasts a $165-million budget and a critically adored director in Canadian Denis Villeneuve. With its release delayed nearly a year by Covid, anticipation had reached a fever pitch. No one could deny the sheer spectacle of its massive world-building sets and pulsating soundtrack, which locals said was rattling nearby windows on the Lido. In a five- ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German artist Oskar Schlemmer was born September 04, 1888. Oskar Schlemmer (4 September 1888 - 13 April 1943) was a German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer associated with the Bauhaus school. In 1923, he was hired as Master of Form at the Bauhaus theatre workshop, after working at the workshop of sculpture. His most famous work is Triadisches Ballett (Triadic Ballet), which saw costumed actors transformed into geometrical representations of the human body in what he described as a "party of form and colour". In this image: Costumes from Schlemmer's Triadisches Ballett (1922).
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