Archive for the ‘art law’ Category
Opinion: Can Art be ‘Priceless’ in Rocky Times? (NY Times) LACMA Acquires Gursky Ocean Abstracts (NY Times) Halsey Minor Awarded $8.57 in Suit Against Christie’s (NY Times) Art World Profile: Yvonne Force Villreal of Art Production Fund (WSJ) Site-Specific Work Shines at ‘Greater New York 2010’ at MoMA P.S. 1 (WSJ) Top International Architectural Firms […]
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Tags: Amy Bessone, Andreas Gursky, Art Production Fund, Broad Museum, Christie's, David Kordansky, Greater New York 2010, Jose Bedia, Kate Moss, Latin American Masters, MoMA PS1, Paris art theft, photos, Yvonne Force Villareal
Portraits of Alice Neel’s Legacy of Realism (NY Times) From William Furlong and Audio Arts, a New Book (NY Times) Paris Journal: Chatter of Swindles and Scames at Drouot (NY Times) Art Dealer Admits Lying to FBI Over Faked $2 Million Picasso (WSJ) Critic’s Notebook: What L.A. Might Ask of Eli Broad (LA Times) Hammer […]
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Tags: Alice Neel, art, Audio Arts, David Zwirner, Drouot, Eli Broad, Elizabeth Peyton, Hammer Museum, Honor Fraser, LACMA, Picasso, realism, Robert Lazzarini, scandal, Souren Melikian, William Furlong
Ford Foundation Grants to Aid Art Spaces and Housing (NY Times) The Truths of Art Studios Onstage in “Red” (NY Times) New Faces on Southland Art Museum Scene (LA Times) L.A. Woman Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison for Selling Bogus Art (LA Times) Watts Towers May Get LACMA As a Guardian (LA Times) Manhattan […]
Filed under: art fairs, art forgeries, art law, art market, celebs, collecting, contemporary art, dealers, Los Angeles, museums, New York | Leave a Comment
Tags: "Red", Annie Leibovitz, Art Dubai, art world gossip, Berry Hill, bogus art, curators, fake art, Ford Foundation, Koons BMW art car, Los Angeles, Mark Rothko, museums
Despite Assurances, Met Finds Artworks Aren’t Restored Overnight (NY Times) Questions Over Fixing Torn Picasso (NY Times) For Tapestry, One More Renaissance (NY Times) How Art Affects the Brain (WSJ) A Cultural Agony in a Nation Where Art is Life (LA Times) A Gleaming New Showcase for the Acropolis (LA Times) Christie’s Sees Art-Market Recovery […]
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Tags: Acropolis, Berlin Museum, Christie's, Haiti, iPad, MET, Sotheby's, tapestry, torn Picasso
In Europe, Arts Ask for Alms (NY Times) Making Art Out of an Encounter (NY Times) Online, It’s the Mouse that Runs the Museum (NY Times) Scorsese, Govan Talk Film Preservation and Hint at Future Collaboration (LA Times) Critic’s Notebook, MOCA Begins to Roll Out Future Exhibition Plans (LA Times) A Renaissance at the V&A […]
Filed under: art conservation, art fairs, art law, art market, celebs, collecting, contemporary art | 1 Comment
Tags: David LaChapelle, film, Fontana, Govan, Jeffrey Deitch, Klein, LACMA, Mapplethorpe, MOCA, Norton Simon, Patti Smith, Photo LA, Scorsese, Shepard Fairey, V&A
Depending on the Culture of Strangers: Holland Cotter Reviews Past Decade (NY Times) Make Room for Video, Performance and Paint: Roberta Smith Reviews Last Decade (NY Times) Small Museum Captures a Rare Chagall Featuring Nazi Figure and Christ (NY Times) Thanks to Love and Money: From the Private Collections of Texas (NY Times) Art Thieves […]
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Tags: art forgeries, Chagall, computer program, Hirst, Kenneth Noland, Koons, Smithsonian, Texas private art collections
Artist’s Life: Cut, Nip, and Tuck at Apexart in TriBeCa (NY Times) Across Borders Few Could Imagine: Outsider Art (NY Times) When is a Work of Art Finished? Tinkering with the Ideal (WSJ) Artist vs. Blight: Pioneering Artist Communities (WSJ) Linz to Return $15 Million Klimt to Holocaust Heirs (Bloomberg) Hirst Skull Frowns at Whitechapel […]
Filed under: architecture, art law, art market, artist projects, collecting, contemporary art, dealers, galleries, Los Angeles, museums, New York, reviews | 1 Comment
Tags: Apexart, auction, Damien Hirst, Frank Gehry, Hammer, Holocaust, Klimt, Michael Jackson, skull, TriBeCa
By Emily Waldorf The latest financial scandal to unravel in the face of the recession involves a well-known Upper East Side art dealer who supported a lavish lifestyle through a high-end gallery. Lawrence B. Salander sold paintings he didn’t own to multiple buyers, cheating investors, collectors, and artists to to the tune of $88 million. […]
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Tags: art crime, art world Ponzi scheme, Bernard Madoff, Salander, Salander O'Reilly
By Emily Waldorf Street-artist Shepard Fairey filed a pre-emptive lawsuit against The Associated Press, requesting that he be protected from copyright infringement in his use of a news photograph as the starting point for his famous poster of President Obama. The photograph was taken by freelance photographer Mannie Garcia, who, to complicate matters even further, […]
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Tags: AP, arrested, Boston, graffiti art, guerilla art, Institute of Contemporary Art, lawsuit, Mannie Garcia, Obama Hope poster, Shepard Fairey, street art, The Associated Press
By Emily Waldorf According to the The International Herald Tribune, a 1911 Fernand Léger painting, Smoke Over Rooftops, was returned to the heirs of Alphonse Kann by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, after a decade of research concluded that the painting had been stolen by Nazis during World War II. Léger examined the “smoke over […]
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Tags: Alphonse Kann, Fernand Leger, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Museum Returns Painting, Nazi Loot, Smoke Over Rooftops