“With a stinging rebuke, a federal judge on Wednesday sentenced Hillel Nahmad, an Upper East Side gallery owner and scion of a powerful art family, to a year in prison on a gambling charge, saying that money could not prevent his incarceration.”
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Getty Trust Gives $5 Million For 2017 Pacific Standard Time Mega-Exhibition
“The fruits of the planning and research that’s now underway will be harvested starting in September 2017, when Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles/Latin America begins a five-month run at museums, universities and performance spaces around the region” – with a focus on works from Latin America and Latino artists in the U.S.
You Need A Lot More Than An Artist To Sell A Fake Painting
“A network of people, sometimes unwittingly, repeatedly helped lend these fake paintings a veneer of credibility. When it comes to the sale of bogus art, it takes a village.”
In This Whitney Biennial Piece, The Donation Box Is The Art
“I don’t know how much I’ve amassed. There’s certainly a nice quantity of things other than legal tender — some I’ve been able to identify: bumper stickers, a credit card, museum literature, invite flyers. (There’s one $1 bill that has “Fuck You Daren Bader” written on it — awwwww.)”
The Milwaukee Art Museum’s Troubled Expansion Plans
“I don’t know of a more convoluted museum site, the product of a generation of piecemeal development that has been more focused on fashionable architecture and the museum’s near-term needs than the long-term impact on the lakefront.”
The ‘Bumpy’ Whistler That Hides A Portrait Of His Mistress
“They noticed bumps on the surface of The Last of Old Westminster, 1862, so MacDonald asked for an X-ray. What she found was ‘staggering’ — an entirely different composition, flipped sideways, of a young woman reading. ‘I immediately said, “It is Joanna. It is Joanna Hiffernan.”‘”
Buying A Cézanne On The Cheap In Paris As Germans Bombarded The City
“As the auction began, Paris was rocked by the sound of shells from a German super-gun, firing from a railway line 80 miles away. Some bidders fled, prices tumbled, and Holmes and Keynes were able to secure some real bargains.”
One Of Britain’s Greatest Artists Was Obsessed With Theories Of Color
Turner “broke things down as follows: YELLOW: Glory BLUE: Duty RED: Power GREEN: Servitude PURPLE: Authority.”
This Summer, Have Some Curated Art With Your Large Pop Music Festival
“Lollapalooza has it all. Except art. Specifically, a big, thoughtfully curated art show. And so, this summer, Lollapalooza is getting a group exhibition so enormous that, if street artist/curator Shepard Fairey has his way, its largest murals will stay in Chicago long after the buzzsaw thump of Skrillex dislodges your brain stem.”
Michelangelo’s David Could Be brought Down By Weak Ankles?
“According to findings from Italy’s National Research Council and the University of Florence, the famous marble sculpture has tiny cracks around its ankles that could cause a serious problem for the masterpiece’s prolonged stability.”