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The Art Institute of Chicago. The Franke Reading Room at the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries. Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.
NEW YORK, NY.- New York investigators trying to seize a drawing from the Art Institute of Chicago filed an exacting 160-page motion Friday accusing the museum of blatantly ignoring evidence of an elaborate fraud undertaken to conceal that the artwork had been looted by the Nazis on the eve of World War II. While the court papers, filed by the Manhattan district attorneys office, did not accuse the museum of being party to the fraud, they said it had applied willful blindness to what the investigators said were clear indications that it was acquiring stolen property. The drawing, Russian War Prisoner, by Egon Schiele, was purchased by the Art Institute in 1966. It is one of a number of works by Schiele that ended up in the hands of museums and collectors and have been sought by the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum, a Jewish cabaret entertainer from Vienna who was murdered in a Nazi concentration camp. The institute paid about $5,500 for the drawing, which has been valued by invest ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This comprehensive exhibition at the Belvedere is the first presentation outside Ukraine to explore the development of modern art in the cultural centers of Kyiv, Lviv and Kharkiv during the first half of the 20th century. Modernism in Ukraine is revealed to be both international and avant-garde. From Jugendstil to Constructivism, the exhibition tells the tempestuous and fascinating history of cultural identity in Ukraine.
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| Neil Gaiman on the collectibles he's auctioning | | Rare Bank of Canada $500 note among top treasures in Heritage's March 7-8 World Paper Money Auction | | Belgian comics artist Andre Franquin's revered Gaston Lagaffe makes his Heritage Auctions debut in March |
The author Neil Gaiman in Los Angeles on May 16, 2019. Gaiman views art ownership as custodial. (Rozette Rago/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- I like the idea of spreading joy, Neil Gaiman, the author of the Sandman series, said in an interview about why he is selling some of the original comic book art, toys and other collectibles ... More | |
Prized rarity is one of the finest offerings of a Canadian $500 English Text note. Estimate: $250,000 - up.
DALLAS, TX.- Just because something no longer can be used does not diminish its appeal. In the case of the exceedingly rare Bank of Canada $500 1935 BC-17 English Text PCGS Banknote About UNC 53 PPQ that will find a new home when it ... More | |
Jean Frisano Strange #134 Cover Rom the Spaceknight Original Art (Lug, 1981).
DALLAS, TX.- ANDRÃ FRANQUIN: GREAT OR...THE GREATEST? This was the question posed by The Comics Journal in 2017 when a Paris exhibition feted the Belgian creators most famous and beloved ... More |
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| The Fralin Museum of Art announces the first major gift of Judaica in the University of Virginia's history | | Ray Francis, celebrating Blackness | | Marc Pachter, who revived National Portrait Gallery, dies at 80 |
Spencer Tinkham (American, b. 1992), Torah Pointer (2021). Rabbit made from skateboard.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.- The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia will expand its holdings with a promised gift of more than 150 Torah pointers, or yads, from Clay H. Barr and the Barr Foundation. ... More | |
Ray Francis, Untitled, c. 1970s. Gelatin silver print, printed c. 1980s, 9 1/8 x 7 1/8 in (23.2 x 18.1 cm)
NEW YORK, NY.- In the late 1970s, in Montreal, photography students were obsessed with getting deep blacks max black in our prints, squeezing ... More | |
Marc Pachter, then director of the National Portrait Gallery, at the museum in Washington on June 20, 2006. (Andrew Councill/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Marc Pachter, who transformed the National Portrait Gallery in Washington from a collection primarily of solemn paintings of old white men ... More |
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| Aleksandra Waliszewska joins BLUM | | Hammer Museum announces curators for Made in L.A. 2025 | | Second Stage to leave its Rem Koolhaas-designed Off Broadway theater |
Waliszewska (b. 1976, Warsaw, Poland) is known for her dark, atmospheric paintings that are steeped in art historical erudition.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- BLUM announced the representation of Warsaw-based artist Aleksandra Waliszewska, considered one of the most influential, singular artists ... More | |
The Hammers biennial exhibition series Made in L.A. focuses exclusively on artists from Los Angeles with a primary focus on emerging artists. Photo by Lauren Randolph.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Hammer Museum announced that the next edition of its critically acclaimed biennial Made ... More | |
The Tony Kiser Theater at West 43rd Street and Eighth Avenue in Manhattan on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Second Stage Theater, a leading nonprofit that presents work by living American writers both on and off-Broadway, is giving up its Rem Koolhaas-designed ... More |
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| Review: Dancing out 'Goldberg' with a nod to John Travolta | | At Dance Theater of Harlem, a new lease on history and ballet | | Thomas Rehbein Galerie presents 'Thomas Renwart: Shelter from the Storm' |
The choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker performs in a new production of the Bach masterpiece The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, at N.Y.U. Skirball in New York on Feb. 21, 2024. (Andrea Mohin/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Images of women testing their bodies endurance have been swirling about the universe lately. There are pop stars like Taylor Swift and Madonna ... More | |
Dancers surround Robert Garland, the new artistic director of Dance Theater of Harlem, in New York, Feb. 2, 2024. (Dana Scruggs/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Robert Garland has held many positions at Dance Theater of Harlem over many years principal dancer, resident choreographer, school director, archivist and company webmaster. At long last, he has caught the prize title: artistic ... More | |
Thomas Renwart, Nothing Really Matters No. 1, 2023 (work in progress, detail).
COLOGNE.- The works in the solo exhibition »Shelter from the Storm« repeatedly show the subject of the butterfly. Depicted in flight amidst historical planetary maps, they refer to the human's deep-rooted desire to explain their world and environment while trying to recognize themselves. His works are surrounded ... More |
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'Survival of the Fittest: Envisioning Wildlife and Wilderness with the Big Four' opens at The James MuseumST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- Survival of the Fittest: Envisioning Wildlife and Wilderness with the Big Four, Masterworks from the Rijksmuseum Twenthe and the National Museum of Wildlife Art opened at The James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art in downtown St. Petersburg, on February 17. The exhibition will be on view through May 26. The exhibition title references Charles Darwins On the Origin of Species, which had a revolutionary impact on how Western cultures envisioned their relationship with the other animals on Earth. In the post-Darwin era, a group of classically trained paintersnow known as the Big Fouremerged and helped establish a vision of wildlife and nature that remains with us today. German Richard Friese (18541918) is the Big Fours elder, followed chronologically by Swede Bruno Liljefors (18601939), German ... More Expansion of Museu Serralves by Ãlvaro Siza opensPORTO.- Serralves Foundation announced the opening of the new Ãlvaro Siza Wing, the expansion of the Serralves Museum designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect, Ãlvaro Siza. The 45,000-square-foot expansion has been inaugurated by two major exhibitions: Improbable Anagrams, a permanent exhibition of a showcase of the Serralves Foundations collection spanning over 60 years, curated by Philippe Vergne, Museum Director, Ines Grosso, Chief Curator, Marta Almeida, Deputy Director, Ricardo Nicolau, Adjunct to the Director, Isabel Braga, Curator, Sonia Oliveira, Librarian and C.A.S.A., an acronym for Coleção Ãlvaro Siza, Arquivo, exhibiting works from the archives of Siza, curated by António Choupina. The exhibitions will be open to the public from February 24 to August 24. Following 18 months of planning and construction, ... More 36 hours in PhoenixNEW YORK, NY.- February heralds baseball and bachelorette season in greater Phoenix, Arizonas capital and the nations fifth-largest city, where 15 major league teams gather for spring training and innumerable bridal parties descend on the local clubs and cabanas. Not that you need be a baseball fan or bridesmaid to want to visit this time of year: Highs in the 70s and wildflowers in bloom make a persuasive case for hitting the citys trails, dining patios and, several stories up, a new rooftop restaurant with panoramic mountain and skyline views. Another notable addition: Waymos driverless electric cars (which have not been without hiccups). Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport allows them to pick up and drop off at the airport train station, and is now ramping up curbside service at the terminals. Strap in for a psychologically wild ... More Reviving 'The Wiz' through 'the Blackest of Black Lenses'NEW YORK, NY.- Schele Williams first saw The Wiz when a tour of the original Broadway production came through Dayton, Ohio. She was 7 years old, and recalled it being the most beautiful reflection of Blackness that I had never seen. Years later, she was cast as Dorothy in a high school production of The Wiz, and the thrill of that experience led Williams to pursue a career in musical theater. She even used the shows soaring finale, Home, as one of her audition songs. Now, after working on Broadway as an actor (Aida) and an associate director (Motown), she is directing the first Broadway revival of The Wiz in almost 40 years. Its a chance, Williams said, to celebrate what The Wiz has meant to her and to pass the story along to her daughters. Since becoming a Broadway hit in 1975, The Wiz, a gospel, soul ... More At the Berlin Film Festival, reconsidering the power of doubtBERLIN.- Doubt gets a bad rap. Doubt is fussy and forgetful, whereas certainty strides around, all action and achievement. As a film critic, swift, declarative certainty is a quality Ive learned to aspire to. And at times, to fake. But this years Berlin International Film Festival, which runs through Sunday, has been buffeted outside and in by political turbulence and organizational shake-ups. And so perhaps because the event itself is experiencing such uncertain times, the films made me reconsider actually, doubt my dismissive stance on doubt. Doubt is etched on Cillian Murphys hollow, striking features in Tim Mielants grave and moving Small Things Like These, which opened the festival last week. Based on a novella by Claire Keegan whose The Quiet Girl was adapted into an Oscar-nominated feature in 2022 the film is ... More 'Jelly's Last Jam' review: A musical paradise, even in purgatoryNEW YORK, NY.- That painful history can be alchemized into thrilling entertainment is both the central idea and the takeaway experience of Jellys Last Jam, the jaw-dropping Encores! revival that opened Wednesday at City Center. Especially in its first act, as it tells the intertwined stories of Jelly Roll Morton and the early years of jazz, it offers up wonder after wonder, in songs and dances so neatly conceived and ferociously performed that in the process of blowing the roof off the building, they also make your hair stand on end. It might not be immediately apparent from its strange framework that the musical could produce such an effect. The book, by George C. Wolfe, who also directed the 1992 Broadway original, introduces us to Morton (Nicholas Christopher) at the moment of his death. Thats when he is greeted, in a kind of nightclub ... More In this heroes' tale, real people risk their lives to get to EuropeROME.- At the end of Io Capitano (I Captain), Matteo Garrones harrowing contender for best international film at next months Academy Awards, a map tracks the journey taken by the films two teenage protagonists: over 3,500 miles from Dakar, Senegal, to Sicily, via the scorching Nigerien desert, horrific Libyan prisons and a nerve-wracking Mediterranean crossing aboard a rickety vessel. Such perilous voyages, taken each year by countless Africans seeking a new life in Europe, is one of the great dramas of our times, Garrone said in a recent interview, and Io Capitano is framed as an epic, modern-day Odyssey, with protagonists no less valiant than Homers hero. Its a journey thats an archetype so that anyone can identify with it, said Garrone, who is best known to international audiences for the hyper-realistic 2008 drama ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter and sculptor Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born February 25, 2024. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (25 February 1841 - 3 December 1919), was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau." In this image: Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Child with an Apple or Gabrielle, Jean Renoir and a Little Girl, circa 1895-1896. Pastel sobre papel. 560 x 760 mm. Mrs. Léone Cettolin Dauberville.
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