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Special Agents Elizabeth Rivas, left, and Allen Grove last year standing near two sections of an ancient mosaic that were returned to Italy. A raid of the Orlando Museum of Art, in which 25 works attributed to Jean-Michel Basquiat were seized, has placed renewed spotlight on the Art Crime Unit. (Federal Bureau of Investigation via The New York Times)
by Matt Stevens
NEW YORK, NY.- For years they operated largely under the radar, though the work they did had the potential to capture the publics imagination. Fraudulently obtained Super Bowl rings. The return of paintings stolen from churches in Peru. A man who recycled modest art he bought online into more expensive works by expertly crafting fake provenance documents. Now the agents for the Federal Bureau of Investigation who have the very specific job of investigating art crime have something of higher profile, in part because of a case the Art Crime Team began tracking last summer. It broke into public view with a raid on the Orlando Museum of Art, where agents seized 25 works that the museum had said were created by Jean-Michel Basquiat, an extremely popular artist. His work routinely fetche ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation of "Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence". © 2022 Kehinde Wiley Courtesy of the artist and Templon, Paris - Brussels - New York. Photo: Ugo Carmeni.
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| National Gallery of Art acquires work by Gretchen Woodman Rogers | | A female Mossad agent's treasure trove of photos | | Phillips to offer Yoshitomo Nara's 'Lookin' for a Treasure' at its new Asia headquarters | 
Gretchen W. Rogers, Five O'Clock, c. 1910. Oil on canvas, overall: 81.92 x 73.34 cm (32 1/4 x 28 7/8 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington. Gift of Funds from James and Christiane Valone in memory of James F. Penrose 2022.131.1
WASHINGTON, DC.- Gretchen Woodman Rogers (18811967) is one of the most gifted artists of the Boston school and was highly regarded as a painter in her day. The National Gallery of Art has acquired its first work by Rogers, Five OClock (c. 1910). This addition to the collection demonstrates the National Gallerys commitment to rewriting the art historical narrative and expanding the holdings of American women artists. Five OClock features a female figure beautifully dressed in a blue and white gown. The woman has been identified as Kathryn Finn, who served as a model for several Boston painters. Her face is hidden by an elaborate hat covered in flowers, fruits, and leaves, a studio prop that appears in other paintings by Rogerss contemporaries. In 1899 a committee of ladies supportive of independent young women but also concerned about their well-being organized ... More | | 
A Fatah youth training camp in Jordan, in 1969. (Sylvia Rafael, via Double Exposure exhibition via The New York Times)
by Ronen Bergman
NEW YORK, NY.- On Oct. 8, 1965, the chief of Israels foreign intelligence service, the Mossad, presented the countrys prime minister with a plan to assassinate several leading Palestinian militants based in Beirut with letter bombs. It will be a woman doing it, said the Mossad chief, Meir Amit, according to transcripts of the meeting with the prime minister, Levi Eshkol, seen by The New York Times. The agent would travel to Beirut and slip the bombs into a mailbox there, he said. At a later meeting, Amit told the prime minister that the woman was a Mossad agent using a Canadian passport who was working as a photographer for a French press agency. The womans identity, Sylvia Rafael, and her face, later became known across the world when she was arrested as a member of a Mossad team that had planned to kill another top Palestinian militant in Norway but shot the ... More | | 
Yoshitomo Nara, Lookin' for a Treasure, 1995. Acrylic on canvas, 119.8 x 109.6 cm. Estimate on request. Image courtesy of Phillips.
HONG KONG.- On 30 March, Yoshitomo Naras seminal Lookin' for a Treasure, 1995, will be offered as a star lot of Phillips inaugural 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale at its new saleroom in Hong Kongs West Kowloon Cultural District. The work is among the rarest works on canvas by the artist to come to auction. It belongs to a small series of only four canvases Nara painted in 1995 featuring a golden-yellow dressed girl against a pale blue background. One of such paintings has been acquired by the Tokushima Modern Art Museum for its permanent collection, while the other two paintings[i] have not been offered before at auction. 1995 was a particularly momentous year for Yoshitomo Nara, marked especially by the publication of his first ever book of paintings, new representation with Blum & Poe Gallery, and a breakthrough solo show at SCAI the Bathhouse in Tokyo which propelled him to international prominence. Jonathan Cr ... More |
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| MacDougall's to offer an exceptional work by Ilya Repin | | Layr announces the representation of the Estate of Anna Andreeva. | | Why would someone steal unpublished manuscripts? | 
Ilya Repin, The Blind Bandura Player. Estimate £ 250,000-300,000.
LONDON.- MacDougalls will present a magnificent painting by Ilya Repin as the top lot of its Ãcole de Paris online auction to be held on Drouot.com on 25 March. The Blind Bandura Player (estimate £ 250,000-300,000) is one of the most distinguished works by Repin that still remains in private hands. It was numerously exhibited since 1918 in Russia, Sweden and the US. In the exhibition of 1921 in New York, it was proudly illustrated on the title page of the catalogue, indicating the significance of this masterpiece. Born in Chuhuiv, Ukraine, Repin was living on his estate in Kuokkola when Finland declared independence from Russia in 1917; the artist suddenly found himself in exile with no means. But the masters genius overcame the political and economic hurdles. After Repin donated part of his collection to the Atemeum Museum in Helsinki, he managed to organise his first ever personal exhibition abroad. It was received ext ... More | | 
Anna Andreeva, Pure, 1960s, Gouache and pencil on paper, 30 Ã 32 cm.
VIENNA.- Anna Andreeva (1917-2008) was the top designer at one of the most prestigious state textile factories in the Soviet Union, the Red Rose Silk Factory, named after Rosa Luxemburg. Andreeva created hundreds of designs for scarves and fabrics, but her aspirations for the autonomy of art constantly undermined the rigid, oppressive political system. Born near Tambov, about 400 kilometres southeast of Moscow, she studied textile design at Vkhutemas, the famous radical avant-garde art school of the early Soviet era. When she joined the Red Rose Silk Factory in 1941, Anna Andreeva was a young artist, influenced by modernist ideas and ever striving to justify her art in a scientific, if not mathematical sense. She was interested in the relationship between the aesthetics and the material structure of textiles produced by the repetitive process of creating patterns (the irreversible nature of a pattern). Her patterns show no figuration whatsoever ... More | | 
The Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse in New York, Jan. 24, 2022. (Stephanie Keith/The New York Times)
by Elizabeth A. Harris
NEW YORK, NY.- For more than five years, someone was stealing unpublished book manuscripts from editors, agents, authors and literary scouts. The question of who was behind the scheme baffled the publishing industry, but just as perplexing was another question: Why? Most unpublished manuscripts would be almost impossible to monetize, so it wasnt clear why somebody would bother to take them. Filippo Bernardini, who has pleaded guilty in a fraud case in which the government said he stole more than 1,000 manuscripts, offered an explanation Friday in a letter addressed to a federal judge. Bernardini said he stole the books because he wanted to read them. Bernardini told Judge Colleen McMahon of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York that his scheme began after a literary agency where he had interned ... More |
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| A Brief Revolution: photography, architecture and social space in the Manplan project | | The Corning Museum of Glass announces Charisse Pearlina Weston is the recipient of the 2022 Rakow Commission | | Kenzaburo Oe, Nobel Laureate and critic of postwar Japan, dies at 88 | 
The Architectural Review Magazine, 1969 Oct, Manplan 2, Special Issue. (Ian Berry); incl texts with Tim Rock, J.M. Richards, Nikolaus Pevsner, H. de C. Hastings, Hugh Casson et al. Courtesy Architectural Press Archive / RIBA Collections.
LONDON.- The Photographers' Gallery opened the exhibition 'A Brief Revolution: photography, architecture and social space in the Manplan project' in collaboration with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and curated by Valeria Carullo, curator, The Robert Elwall Photographs Collection, RIBA British Architectural Library, which will be on view until June 11th, 2023. In 1969 and 1970 a revolution took place in the pages of Architectural Review. An ambitious survey of architecture and town planning in late 1960s Britain, called Manplan, used photographic work by leading photojournalists and street photographers to powerfully articulate the theme of each issue. Although photography had been integral to Architectural Review since the 1930s, the images that defined Manplan were like nothing that had been seen in the magazine before. The dramatic black and white images, shot on a 35mm camera with a spirit ... More | | 
to appear before the first beat of unwilling end (anacrusis), Charisse Pearlina Weston, 2022. Plate glass, digital overglaze enamel decals, white oak, satin mahogany polyurethane stain; printed, cut, slumped, engraved, assembled. Courtesy of The Corning Museum of Glass.
CORNING, NY.- The Corning Museum of Glass has awarded the latest Rakow Commission, one of the most prestigious commissions for artists working with glass, to conceptual artist and writer Charisse Pearlina Weston (b. 1988, Houston, TX; based in Brooklyn, NY). The work, titled to appear before the first beat of unwilling end (anacrusis), will be unveiled March 16. The mixed-media work continues the artist's ongoing investigations into Black life, intimacy, and technologies of surveillance. Utilizing varying levels of concealment and legibility, the work features photographs from the January 6, 2021 protests at the U.S. Capitol, a collapsed-glass installation previously made by the artist, and an original poem exploring power, time, and resistance that has been etched onto portions of the work. The text includes re-articulated fragments from ... More | | 
Kenzaburo Oe, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994, at his home in Tokyo on May 13, 2008. (Ko Sasaki/The New York Times)
by Daniel Lewis
NEW YORK, NY.- Kenzaburo Oe, a Nobel laureate whose intense novels and defiant politics challenged a modern Japanese culture that he found morally vacant and dangerously tilted toward the same mindset that led to catastrophe in World War II, died on March 3. He was 88. His publisher, Kodansha, announced the death on Monday. It did not specify a cause or say where he had died. Oe (pronounced OH-ay) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994 for creating what the Nobel committee called an imagined world where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today. Though he often said he wrote with only a Japanese audience in mind, Oe attracted an international readership in the 1960s with three works in particular: Hiroshima Notes, a collection of essays on the long-term consequences of the atomic bomb attacks; and the novels A Personal Matter ... More |
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| AIPAD Award honors Rijksmuseum Photography Curators | | Columbus Museum of Art announces Brooke A. Minto as new Executive Director and CEO | | Academy Art Museum acquires historically significant properties | 
Hans Rooseboom (left) and Mattie Boom at the installation of the Modern Times show in the Rijksmuseum, 2014 © Vincent Mentzel.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Association of International Photography Art Dealers announced today that Mattie Boom and Hans Rooseboom, Curators of Photography at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, are the recipients of the annual AIPAD Award. The AIPAD Award recognizes and celebrates visionaries who have spent their lives at the forefront of the field of photography. The Award will be presented during the VIP Opening of The Photography Show presented by AIPAD on Thursday, March 30, 2023. The show runs from March 31 through April 2 at Center415 on Fifth Avenue at 38th Street in New York. It is a privilege and a pleasure to present the 2023 AIPAD Award to Mattie Boom and Hans Rooseboom, our first international recipients of the prize, said Lydia Melamed Johnson, Director of AIPAD. These exemplary scholars have brought contemporary and vintage photography to one of the most storied institutions in the world, bringing ... More | | 
Minto brings over 20 years of experience as an arts administrator, art historian and educator working across U.S. and international museums, as well as interdisciplinary arts organizations.
COLUMBUS, OH.- The board of trustees of the Columbus Museum of Art has named Brooke A. Minto as the Museums new executive director and CEO following a national search. Minto brings over 20 years of experience as an arts administrator, art historian and educator working across U.S. and international museums, as well as interdisciplinary arts organizations. Minto takes the helm of CMA on May 15, 2023, succeeding Nannette Maciejunes, who served as executive director for 20 years. Led by CMA Board President Pete Scantland, the search committee determined that Mintos unique combination of leadership skills, experience and demonstrated success perfectly align with the Museum's critical priorities. These include articulating an inspiring institutional and curatorial vision for a sustainable future; forging and maintaining valuable partnerships at the local, regional, national ... More | | 
AAM plans to rehabilitate the existing structure on 106 Talbot Lane, which is adjacent to two vacant lots at 108 and 110 Talbot Lane.
EASTON, MD.- The Academy Art Museum has acquired the properties at 106, 108 and 110 Talbot Lane for the creation of an annex, thanks to a generous donation by AAM Trustee Elizabeth Diz Hormel. Land records and archeological studies have identified that the land was originally owned by Henny and James Freeman beginning in the 1780s. The Freemans are one of the earliest documented free Black landowning families in Easton. Beginning March 20 and continuing throughout the end of the month, the Ottery Group, a Maryland consulting firm that offers services in archeology, historic preservation, and the environmental sciences, will conduct an archeological study that builds on three previous studies of the Freeman site led by University of Maryland Department of Anthropology (Dr. Mark Leone and Dr. Tracy Jenkins) in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Through rigorous testing, including ground-penetrating radar, shovel testing, and test ... More |
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 Scotland's natural beauty inspires artists as BAF welcomes 24 new exhibitorsKELSO.- Two dozen new exhibitors including painters, printmakers and ceramicists inspired by Scotlands wildlife and landscapes, will be taking part in this years McInroy & Wood Borders Art Fair (BAF). The event described by participants as Scotlands friendliest art fair takes place from 17 to 19 March at the Borders Events Centre, Kelso. BAF is the biggest event of its kind in the region and is a chance to see work ranging from landscape, wildlife and portrait painting through to animal sculptures, botanical castings, ceramics and stone carvings being shown by more than 70 artists, makers and galleries. Eleven of the first time exhibitors are Borders-based and include original printmaker and painter Emma Jones, ceramicist Belinda Glennon, and mixed media illustrator and artist Sara Rhys. Belinda, from Stow, makes remarkable ceramics ... More  Miles McEnery Gallery opens an exhibition of new paintings by Nick AguayoNEW YORK, NY.- Miles McEnery Gallery announced an exhibition of new paintings by Nick Aguayo, on view 16 March through 22 April 2023 at 511 West 22nd Street. Accompanying the exhibition is a fully illustrated publication featuring an essay by Rochelle Steiner. Riddled with playful color and poppy graphics, Nick Aguayos paintings absorb and reflect aspects of the artists everyday. Working simultaneously between canvases, inspiration drawn from his surroundings enters a lexicon of motifs appearing from one work to the next. Although abstract, neighborhood fixtures, thrifted fabric scraps, and shadows cast through his studio window pane all manifest in recurring geometric forms, grounded through an attunement towards classical figure-ground composition. Physicality itself acts as a central tie between the paintings. Aguayo collages found ... More  Julien's Auctions presents "Brace Yourself for Banksy: Modern and Contemporary Art"BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Juliens Auctions, the auction house to the stars, announced has announced about BRACE YOURSELF FOR BANKSY: MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART an auction event featuring a world class collection of 73 works created by some of todays leading and most influential artists including Banksy, Invader, KAWS, Collette Miller and David Yarrow, as well as a series of original political illustrations by legendary actor Jim Carrey and a rare, early-stage painting by beloved television personality and artist, Bob Ross. Additionally, fine art formerly owned by celebrities such as Mia Farrow, Greta Garbo, Sid Caesar, and the Duke and Dutchess of Windsor will be featured. The auction event with a VIP reception and a live concert performance by the band Brace Yourself! will take place live Wednesday, March 29th, 2023 ... More  Thea Anamara Perkins named 2023 recipient of La Prairie Art AwardSYDNEY.- Arrernte and Kalkadoon artist Thea Anamara Perkins has been announced as the recipient of the 2023 La Prairie Art Award, an acquisitive award championing the work of Australian women artists presented by the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Swiss luxury skincare house, La Prairie. The award supports Australian women artists through an international artist residency and the development or expansion of a new body of work, which is acquired by the Art Gallery for its collection. Perkins was selected by the Art Gallery of NSW and La Prairie for her intimate portraits of First Nations people and striking depictions of Country. She draws inspiration for her work from her family archive of photographs, turning family snapshots into tender portraits, while taking charge of the representation of First Nations people and asserting the agency of those she depicts. ... More  XL EXTRALIGHT® presents SOFTSCOPE an installation by Panter & Tourron at Spazio MaiocchiMILAN.- On the occasion of Milan Design Week 2023, XL EXTRALIGHT® has asked Lausanne-based design studio Panter & Tourron to creatively interpret their innovative material Organix 3.0. In response, the duo has conceived SOFTSCOPE, an architectural urban installation in the courtyard of Capsule Plaza at Spazio Maiocchi. For the installation, Panter & Tourron, known for their work at the intersection of technology and society, have conceived a pseudo-domestic interior: part conversation pit, part public stage. The pyramid-shaped monolith invites users to sit down and relax on the low bench that borders the perimeter or in the a hollowed-out central section, complete with integrated seating. The objective of the composition is to unite its users in dialog. Both privately, as they explore the exhibition throughout ... More  Exhibition by Erik van Lieshout now on view at Galerie Guido W. Baudach BERLIN.- Galerie Gudio W. Baudach is currently presenting its fifth solo exhibition with works by Erik van Lieshout. Van Lieshout (born 1968 in Deurne) is one of the most important artists of his generation in the Netherlands. He is best known for his films and drawings, in which he addresses a wide variety of topics of cultural and socio-political relevance, regularly appears as the actively guiding character, in order to dissect the issues at hand with full personal commitment. The exhibition is dedicated to Lieshouts latest major project titled René Daniëls after its protagonist. On display is a film of the same name as well as a series of works on paper and canvas created in context with it. René Daniëls (born 1950 in Eindhoven), the main figure in Van Lieshouts film, is one of the best-known Dutch painters of the late twentieth century. In the early 1980s, ... More  Hilary Hahn practices in public, wherever and however she isBOSTON, MASS.- Backstage at Symphony Hall here on a recent afternoon, Hilary Hahn opened her violin case and took out her instrument. She flipped it up to her chin, then paced around; she was warming up to play Bach for a group of Boston Symphony Orchestra staffers, as a run-through before she set out on a tour that continues in Los Angeles and Chicago this week. For the moment, she was trying to break in a new set of strings, as any violinist might. She paused. She set her pink-cased iPhone down to face her, having scouted the dressing room for an angle, then turned on its camera and pressed record. She played her Vuillaume violin toward the lens, but not exactly for it. She let it watch while she tuned and tuned again; while she repeated tricky little passages; while she sighed, composing herself. She stopped it when she was ... More  Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. announces highlights of the Canadiana & Decorative Arts auction NEW HAMBURG.- Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd. will be a hive of activity later this month, with a Canadiana & Decorative Arts auction on Saturday, March 25th, followed the very next day by a Historic Lamps & Lighting auction. Both have start times of 9am Eastern and are online-only, with bidding via LiveAuctioneers.com and MillerandMillerAuctions.com. The March 25th sale offers collectors of Canadian heritage a chance to drink from the cup, said company president Ethan Miller. An important basket of fresh to the market material is hitting the market at once. A case in point: the Skip Kerr collection. When Skip wasnt building the go-to online resource for made in Canada Pequegnat clocks, he was hunting for them. Mr. Miller said many of the Pequegnat examples Skip fought the hardest to acquire will be featured in this sale. ... More  How Mia Couto's words help weave the story of MozambiqueMAPUTO.- Sipping sparkling water in an upscale neighborhood of Maputo, Mozambiques capital, Mia Couto, arguably the best-known writer in Portuguese-speaking Africa, leaned back to tell the story of the day when words failed him. It was 1972, and hed been summoned to formalize his underground ties to the guerrilla movement that had been fighting Portugal for Mozambiques independence since 1964. He was 17. There were maybe 30 people in that room, he said. I was the only white guy. Each person was called forward to deliver a narrative, their story of suffering, before a stern-looking, three-man revolutionary committee representing the Mozambique Liberation Front, or Frelimo in its Portuguese acronym. If they were judged to have suffered enough, the committee would welcome them into the inner sanctum of the revolution. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Hungarian-French painter Victor Vasarely died March 15, 1997. Victor Vasarely (9 April 1906 - 15 March 1997), was a Hungarian-French artist, who is widely accepted as a "grandfather" and leader of the op art movement. His work entitled Zebra, created in the 1930s, is considered by some to be one of the earliest examples of op art. In this image: Cheyt - Pyr, Serigraph, 68.5 X 66 cm.
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