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Set-up in progress for the exhibit Heroes & Monsters: Jean-Michel Basquiat at the Orlando Museum of Art, on Feb. 2, 2022. A Los Angeles auctioneer agreed to plead guilty on April 11, 2023 to making false statements to federal investigators and has admitted to helping create fake artworks that were displayed here in 2022. (Melanie Metz/The New York Times)
by Matt Stevens and Brett Sokol
NEW YORK, NY.- A Los Angeles auctioneer has agreed to plead guilty to making false statements to federal investigators and has admitted to helping create fake artworks that were displayed last year at the Orlando Museum of Art as previously unknown works of celebrated artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. The U.S. Attorneys Office for the Central District of California filed court papers on Tuesday announcing the plea by Michael Barzman, nine months after the FBI raided the museum and seized 25 paintings that had been hanging in its Basquiat exhibit, Heroes & Monsters. In court documents, prosecutors said Barzman, 45, of North Hollywood, had admitted to helping create between 20 and 30 fake artworks and then marketing them for sale as if they were authentic Basquiats. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Exhibition view "Images of Italy. Places of Longing in Early Photography" Photo: Städel Museum - Norbert Miguletz
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| Brenda A. Levin, FAIA Archive donated to the Getty Research Institute | | Bonhams' first Islamic and Indian sale in Paris achieves strong results | | Sapar Contemporary Gallery to open 'Sofia Cacciapaglia: INCANTO' on April 13th | 
Levin is renowned for her work in the preservation and architectural redefinition of important historic landmarks, as well as her new architectural work for major institutions.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty Research Institute has acquired the work of architect and preservationist Brenda Levin and her firm Levin & Associates. Founded in 1980, the firm became well known for its innovative work in preservation and restoration of important Los Angeles landmarks, as well as new projects for major institutional clients across the region. The archive of Levin & Associates contributes to a growing collecting and research trajectory at the GRI which seeks to account for histories of conservation and preservation in the Los Angeles region and beyond, said Mary Miller, director of the Getty Research Institute. Because this type of work necessarily intersects many forms of expertise, including material research, seismologic investigation, chemical analysis ... More | | 
A 18th19th Century Ottoman mother-of-pearl and tortoiseshell-inlaid wood casket. Photo: Bonhams.
PARIS.- An early miniature Qur'an, probably North Africa, 15th-16th century achieved 60,855 at Bonhams first Islamic and Indian sale today (Thursday 6 April) in Paris. The work had a pre-sale estimate of 12,000 - 17,000 and was one of the highlights of the sale. A small illuminated Qur'an decorated with gilt-stamped panels with Chinese-style cloud bands, with flap mid-16th Century made 5,355 against an estimate of 3,500 - 5,800. A Mamluk bone-inlaid wood panel, Egypt, 14th/15th Century sold for 9,563 against an estimate of 2,000 to 3,000. The 144-lot sale made a total of 229,793 with 75% sold by lot and 99,5% sold by value. Oliver White, Bonhams Head of Islamic and Indian Art commented: We're absolutely delighted with the results of today's sale, and especially the fantastic result for the Qur'an which encapsulates the dexterity of Muslim scribes. ... More | | 
Incanto, 2023. Acrylic on cardboard. 127 3/8 x 63 3/4 in. Sofia Cacciapaglia: INCANTO. Every beginning is only a sequel, after all. Curated by Emma Kathleen Hepburn Ferrer
April 13, 2023 - May 20, 2023, Opening April 13, 2023, 6 - 8 pm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sapar Contemporary is proud to present the first NYC gallery exhibition by Italian artist Sofia Cacciapaglia, which will begin with an opening reception on Thursday April 13, 6-8 pm at Sapar Contemporary in TriBeCa - Nina, Raushan, Sofia and Emma. Ranging from miniature paintings to monumental canvas and cardboard installations, Cacciapaglias works are a meditation on femininity and the emotional and spiritual co-existence of women. Her iconic larger-than-life works present women who are linked with each other through the rhythm of touching hands, dancing feet, falling hair, and secret glances. Eyes are portals into inner worlds sometimes closed or blindfolded ... More |
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| Phillips to offer Roger Smith's career defining, handmade pocket watch number two, a landmark achievement in watchmaking | | Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair opens this May | | High Museum announces Director of Communications Natali Johnson | 
Roger Smith, Pocket Watch Number Two, Estimate in Excess of $ 1 million.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips in Association with Bacs and Russo are honored to announce the first public sale of Roger Smiths Pocket Watch Number Two, an historically important timepiece that represents a landmark achievement in the industry and the cornerstone of the 21st-century English watchmaking renaissance. There has been no other singular watch known to have completely defined the life of a renowned watchmaker. At the age of just 22, Smith presented the esteemed George Daniels, widely considered the greatest watchmaker of the 20th century, with his first handmade pocket watch in hopes of securing a coveted apprenticeship. Daniels, however, advised the newcomer to go back and start again as it looked handmade and not created. Undaunted, Smith spent the next five years perfecting his second pocket watch, featuring a perpetual ... More | | 
Frederick Gore CBE, RA (English,1913-2009), Flowers from Provence. Oil on canvas, 90cm x 70cm (110cm x 90cm framed), £21,000 from John Adams Fine Art.
The ninth annual ( April 1, 2023)Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair opens on Friday 19 until Sunday 21 May this year, when some 60 dealers with their latest acquisitions, put on a magnificent display for the fairs discerning visitors. Housed in a specially designed marquee erected in the grounds of the National Trusts Petworth House in Petworth, West Sussex, antiques fair tickets enable visitors to park directly outside the marquee and also visit Petworth House to view some of the nations art collection free-of-charge over the three days. Appealing to collectors, interior designers and those who enjoy surrounding themselves with rare and fine items, this event offers a vast array of unique and impressive items to decorate interiors and as unusual gifts. This years fair welcomes a few new exhibitors: Gladwell & Patterson fine art dealers from Knightsbridge in London bringing Wildflower Wood oi ... More | | 
Johnson comes to the High from Warner Bros. Discovery, where she served as vice president, program and brand marketing, overseeing marketing campaigns for original programming.
ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art announced that Natali Johnson has joined the Museum as the director of communications. Johnson leads the teams responsible for marketing, advertising, public relations and digital and print communications. Johnson comes to the High from Warner Bros. Discovery, where she served as vice president, program and brand marketing, overseeing marketing campaigns for original programming and spearheading brand execution across the TBS, TNT and truTV networks. She also led cross-divisional marketing initiatives for Warner Bros. Theatricals, DC Comics and HBO Max. Johnson joined the company in 2007 as a research analyst and was promoted several times during her tenure, holding manager, senior manager and director positions within the brand marketing team. Some of her ... More |
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| Monique Meloche celebrates announcement of representation of Lavar Munroe and her 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship | | Liberty Science Center launc es "Big Art" program with new inaugural installations by Leandro Erlich and Dustin Yellin | | Inès van den Kieboom's 'Le Temps des Cerises' on view through May 20th at Tim Van Laere Gallery | 
Lavar Munroe: interdisciplinary artist working primarily in painting, mixed-media drawings and sculptural installations.
CHICAGO, IL.- Monique Meloche Gallery recently announced the representation of Baltimore-based artist Lavar Munroe, who had his first solo show at the gallery in February 2023. We would like to congratulate him on being named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation with the additional honor of his fellowship being fully supported by a gift from actor Robert De Niro. Mr. De Niro is supporting a 2023 Fellowship in Fine Arts in honor of his father, the painter Robert De Niro Sr., who was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1968. Lavar Munroe is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in painting, mixed-media drawings and sculptural installations. His work is described as a hybrid medium between painting and relief sculpture. Taking inspira ... More | | 
Photography: Jackie Lee/BFA.com
JERSEY CITY, N.J..- Liberty Science Centerthe most-visited interactive science learning center in the New York metro areais pleased to announce the launch of its Big Art initiative, a new arts program with two inaugural installations by Argentine conceptual artist Leandro Erlich and Brooklyn-based artist and Pioneer Works founder Dustin Yellin, which will be unveiled at a private opening on the evening of Saturday, April 1st. Erlich will present a full-scale, fictitious apartment building façade that references brick and brownstone constructions found throughout the New York metro regioncomplete with fire escapes, window AC units and a ground floor deliand Yellin will offer a large piece exemplary of his habitual weaving together of forces of nature and technology. Erlichs installation will remain on display through the summer, and Yellins for the next year. ... More | | 
Inès van den Kieboom (b. 1930 in Ostend; lives and works in Antwerp), à faute de vin quon boive du cidre, 2023. Acrylic and pencil on wooden panel, 110 x 81 cm.
ANTWERP.- Inès van den Kieboom (b. 1930 in Ostend; lives and works in Antwerp) has been painting since the 1960s, yet she has only exhibited her works three times: twice shortly after she started creating her work, and once very recently in Antwerp where, since 2022, she is represented by Tim Van Laere Gallery. Since March 23 to May 20, 2023, she is having her first solo exhibition at the gallery, featuring a new series of paintings as well as early, never-before-seen works. Van den Kieboom finds inspiration primarily in her everyday surroundings, but also in art history, popular culture, and current events. She paints and draws her subjects through a filter of memories and impressions, which ensures the elimination of superfluous details and abstracts her subjects to their figur ... More |
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| JG.Limited announces History & Culture timed online auction, April 25th | | Exhibition by Rackstraw Downes and Stanley Lewis now on view at Betty Cuningham Gallery | | Polk Museum of Art opens scholastic art & writing awards student exhibition | 
8 inch by 10 inch silver gelatin photograph of James Jimmy Hoffa, signed by the former Brotherhood of Teamsters president (1957-1971), who disappeared in 1975 (est. $600-$750).
DANVERS, MASS.- Two exceptionally rare items relating to the iconic actor Jack Nicholson, and another pertaining to George Walker, the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, will headline JG.Limiteds online-only History & Culture timed auction, online now at www.JG.Limited and closing Tuesday, April 25th. The sale is packed with 850 collectible lots. The first Nicholson piece is a sheet with legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubricks autographed hand-written production notes inscribed to Nicholson during the filming of the classic horror film The Shining. Penned on original EMI Elmstreet Studios Limited by Kubrick, using a red felt tip marking pen, the letter alerts Mr. Nicholson to an EMI theater schedule (est. $4,000-$5,000). The second item is a 1987 typed letter, signed by Ron Harry, the Boston Garden organist ... More | | 
Stanley Lewis, Winslow Park, Westport, 2010-2014, Oil on canvas, 21 1/4 x 35 1/4 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Paint what you see! Paint what you see! so exclaims Stanley Lewis to a group visiting his retrospective at American University in 2007, describing the mammoth challenge that he faces daily in his own work. Meanwhile Rackstraw Downes traverses the country conscious of season, light, ditches and power lines to find a site that satisfies some inner need. Betty Cuningham Gallery is now conducting a two-person show featuring major paintings by Rackstraw Downes and Stanley Lewis.Both Downes and Lewis are on-site painters. Both fight for honest observation, with a shared interest in the particular and the mundane. However, they differ greatly by method, by subject, by need, and even sometimes by humor. While Rackstraw will travel miles to sites which intrigue him, Stanley stays put and paints where he is. In a 2006 gallery video Rackstraw speaks about his frustration to do it right: ... More | | 
Lathan Williamson, 'Marked,' Digital Art, Harrison School for the Arts, Grade 12, Instructors Rocky Bridges, Beth Garcia, Casey Hall, Gold Medal.
LAKELAND, FL.- The Polk Museum of Art is excited to host an exhibition of the nationally recognized Annual Scholastic Art and Writing Awards for Floridas Polk County Art Region. On view in the Student Gallery through April 23, 2023, this exhibition features the juried work of Polk County students grades 7-12. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Scholastic Awards founding and the third year of the Museums partnership with the program. During the fall of 2022, the Scholastic Awards invited student artists and writers nationwide to submit their original works produced across artistic disciplines, including short stories, drawings, fashion designs, film, architecture, and more. Awarded students are now recognized as part of the nations longest-running and most prestigious scholarship and recognition program and can count themselves among the ranks of some of the most well-known ... More |
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 Art in the Twenty-First Century: begins eleventh season of series on contemporary artNEW YORK, NY.- Art21 has begun the eleventh season of the Emmy-nominated, Peabody Award-winning documentary series Art in the Twenty-First Century. Airing on PBS, Everyday Icons, consists of three one-hour episodes, the first of which aired on April 7th, ushering in the latest season of the longest-running television series on contemporary art. Everyday Icons poses two fundamental questions: Who and what gets to represent a culture? Why do we exalt some symbols and icons, while ignoring others? The episode profiles four artists who challenge culturally-ingrained monuments and icons, and have developed their own visual worlds to reflect a changing society. Portraitist Amy Sherald meticulously remixes iconic American images, while reflecting on her past and the past of a nation. Alex Da Corte welcomes ... More  "Gabriela Vainsencher: Epic, Heroic, Ordinary" at Asya Geisberg Gallery for last 3 daysNEW YORK, NY.- The latest in a series of recent solo exhibitions featuring contemporary artists who explore not only figural art, but specifically historicaland thoroughly canonizedrepresentation forms showcases Gabriela Vainsenchers playful ceramic riffs on ancient Greek and Minoan aesthetics. Now on view for three more days at Asya Geisberg Gallery, these artworks offer her an unexpected avenue for feminist reflections on motherhood and the maternal body. You walk into an ancient ruin and there is a hideous creature, some sort of serpentine dragon slithering across the wall, flaunting a hideous tail and a tangle of arms, riddled with a myriad of ears. But wait, is that a frying pan? A tote bag? And on closer inspection, perhaps her head is not that of a Medusa, but that of a worried woman. And there are pa ... More  Michael Lerner, 'Elf' and 'Barton Fink' actor, dies at 81NEW YORK, NY.- Michael Lerner, a veteran character actor who had small but memorable roles in Barton Fink and Elf, among dozens of other film and television credits, died Saturday at a hospital in Burbank, California. He was 81. His brother, Ken Lerner, said the cause was complications from brain seizures that Lerner suffered in November. Lerner was a committed working actor who started out with roles in theater productions and episodic television before embarking on a five-decade film career. He appeared in Elf (2003), the Will Ferrell Christmas comedy, as a short-tempered and forceful publishing executive. And his role as Jack Lipnick, a volatile movie studio mogul, in Joel and Ethan Coens darkly comic Barton Fink (1991), earned him an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor in 1992. In an in ... More  Construction begins to restore first Christian church towerCOLUMBUS, IN.- Restoration work is underway on the $3.2m First Christian Church Save Our Tower project after The Friends of First Christian Church Architecture Fund at Heritage Fund met all qualifications to secure a $500,000 Challenge Grant from the Jeffris Family Foundation. This marks a milestone at one of the most iconic religious buildings in America, and Landmark Columbus Foundation is celebrating by hosting its third event in the Progressive Preservation Talks Series on Saturday, April 21 at 1:00 pm at the nearby Helen Haddad Hall. This free, public event will feature presentations by Columbus-based architect Louis Joyner and Los Angeles-based design expert Daniel Ostroff. Joyner, owner of Louis Joyner Architect, will share his work on the Save Our Tower project. Ostroff, Head of Acquisitio ... More  New digital art commission by Rick Silva launches on whitney.orgNEW YORK, NY.- Today, the Whitney Museum of American Art launched Liquid Crystal, a new digital art project by artist Rick Silva, on whitney.org. The project was commissioned for artport, the Museums online gallery space for net art commissions. Silvas work is part of the ongoing Sunrise/Sunset series that activates across the Museums website twice a day at sunrise and sunset in New York City. In Liquid Crystal, the artist explores the relationships between the natural world and the technological environments that surround us. The series comprises seven videos, one for every day of the week, each of them depicting a view of a natural surface, including leaves, moss, sand, gravel, snow, and ice, representing different seasons. The artists hands sweep away these natural layers to reveal synthesized video ... More  New Orleans Museum of Art appoints Brian Piper as Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints, and Drawings NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Susan M. Taylor, The Montine McDaniel Freeman Director of the New Orleans Museum of Art, and Lisa Rotondo-McCord, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, announced today the appointment of W. Brian Piper as the museums new Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints, and Drawings. Piper began his work in this new role on April 3, 2023. "We are thrilled to have Brian leading NOMAs longstanding work to celebrate photography as fine art, said Susan M. Taylor. The museum has one of the most important collections of photographs in the country, and I look forward to Brians work at the helm of the departments exciting next chapter." In this new p ... More  KP Projects proudly presents the new solo exhibition of Henri DaumanLOS ANGELES, CA.- Seldom does a generational giant come along and share with us his vision of the world, garnered by an insatiable curiosity about people and life. In celebration of his 90th birthday, Henri Daumans newest solo exhibition A Cinematic Eye at KP PROJECTS, does just that. Spanning four decades as a photojournalist and photographer, Daumans images capture powerful cultural and social moments that serve as elegant testimony to modern America. His photographs speak to us about us. According to TIME magazine, Henri Dauman created photos that play like a slideshow of some of the biggest moments in American history and popular culture. From Brigitte Bardot to the ERA movement of the 60s, Dauman's iconic imagery defined the 20th century. His oeuvre offers context to an evolving ... More  Review: 'White Girl in Danger' flips the script on soap operasNEW YORK, NY.- What comes to mind when you think of soap operas? Amnesia, murders, cliffhangers, catfights? Think bigger. Even judged by the standards of All My Children and Dynasty, Michael R. Jacksons satirical soap musical White Girl in Danger, which opened Monday at the Tony Kiser Theater, is a wild, raunchy, overstuffed tale. Sure, it features amnesia and the rest, and mile-a-minute jokes, but the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Strange Loop has also packed the nearly three hours of White Girl way too long with a thesis worth of insight and argument. By the time you get to the dildo slapping and the Hairspray parody, followed by the anguished yet hopeful finale, you no longer know what hilarious, despairing, muddle of a planet youre on. Surely that was the plan. White Girl in Danger ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Robert Delaunay was born April 12, 1885. Robert Delaunay (12 April 1885 - 25 October 1941) was a French artist who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, co-founded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. His later works were more abstract, reminiscent of Paul Klee. His key influence related to bold use of colour and a clear love of experimentation with both depth and tone. In this image: Robert Delaunay (1885-1941). Hommage à Blériot, 1914. Kunstmuseum Basel. Leimtempera auf Leinwand. HxB : 250 x 250 cm. Photo : Martin P. Bühler © L&M Services B.V.
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