Category: visual

“‘Everything’s good, everything’s good,’ Mr. Sutherland wrote in an e-mail when the undercover officer asked of assurances that the works were real.”

“The legal battle is just one more instalment in a series of often bitter skirmishes over Mr. Morrisseau’s artistic legacy that began before his death, at 75 in late 2007, and continue today, if anything more intensely. “

“These works make you wonder if Bush is familiar with Jasper Johns’s ‘Seasons,’ where each of the four paintings is shadowed by a male, seemingly unclothed silhouette, or Pierre Bonnard’s strangely chaste, luminous paintings of his wife reclining in a bathtub”

“But the original tapestry ends before the coronation of William in London on Christmas Day in 1066. The last of the three new panels now depict William arriving in London to be crowned.”

“Founded in Damascus in 2006 by two cousins,” the Ayyam Gallery, which now has offices in Beirut, the Gulf, and London, has become “a haven for Syrian artists and has now become a conduit for Syrian artists to express their responses to the devastation of their country.” Some of those responses have received a huge response online.

“The judge decided against the painting, but his decision wasn’t greeted with universal approval among art historians and other experts on Russian art. A number of them believe the work is genuine, and they ask whether the courtroom is the best place to decide whether an artwork is authentic or not.”

“They are also accused of breaking the terms of the state of emergency by overspending on various restoration projects and agreeing to non-essential work on the site, which draws some 2.5 million tourists each year.”

Kim Sajet, “who was born in Nigeria, raised in Australia and is a citizen of the Netherlands, will be responsible for a staff of 65, an annual budget of about $9 million, and 21,000 objects that include Gilbert Stuart’s famous unfinished portrait of George Washington, photographs of Abraham Lincoln and videos of more recent presidents.”

Sotheby’s will now focus on “private sales,” with the Toronto-based operation functioning “privately and discreetly” as the liaison between the consignor of a particular piece of art and those clients with sufficient dollars to buy it.

“Why was Deitch having such a hard time when two other New York transplants–Govan, who had come to lacma from the Dia Art Foundation, and Hammer Museum director Annie Philbin, who had run SoHo’s Drawing Center–were succeeding so spectacularly?”