The auction house has acquired Orion Analytical and is folding the firm into its newly-created scientific research department. James Martin, the firm’s founder (and now a Sotheby’s exec), has helped the FBI in a number of art fraud cases, not least the Knoedler Gallary debacle.
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Louisville Orchestra Keeps Teddy Abrams Through 2019-20
Executive director Andrew Kipe says that the 29-year-old music director has
“really changed the conversation about the orchestra and its mission and direction. He has wanted the orchestra to do more than be in the concert hall giving concerts.”
Looted Antiquities From Palmyra And Yemen Seized In Geneva
The artifacts, which range between roughly 1,800 and 2,400 years old, were stored at the Geneva Free Port in 2009-10, before the current Arab civil wars and the rise of ISIS.
NPR Critics Pick Their Favorite Music Of 2016
Okay – so we don’t quite know how Solange beats out Beyonce’s Lemonade for best album of the year. But the bigger question is how this eclectic hodgepodge of styles and genres gets sorted out into a big list that features Barbara Hannigan, Miranda Lambert, Rihanna, Chopin mazurkas, Kaytranada and Christopher Rouse. Just what is the aesthetic through-line here?
Janet Brown To Step Down From Grantmakers In The Arts Next Year
“Under Brown’s leadership, GIA’s membership increased thirty-four percent and the budget was nearly doubled from 2008 to 2017. The organization also saw a large expansion of its programs, including the development of webinars, research, workshops, and forums on a wide array of topics including arts education; support for individual artists; cross-sector creative work in medicine, environment, and corrections; and many more. The 2016 GIA Conference was the largest in the organization’s 32-year history.”
The Culture Wars Over Christmas Really Are As Old As Christianity Itself
“‘This festival teaches even the little children, artless and simple, to be greedy,’ as one critic put it. ‘The tender minds of the young begin to be impressed with that which is commercial and sordid.’ The year was 400, and the anxious writer was the Cappadocian Bishop Asterius of Amasea.”
Adorno And The Frankfurt School Predicted This Election 60 Years Ago, Says Alex Ross
“Two years ago, in an essay on the persistence of the Frankfurt School, I wrote, ‘If Adorno were to look upon the cultural landscape of the twenty-first century, he might take grim satisfaction in seeing his fondest fears realized.’ I spoke too soon. His moment of vindication is arriving now.”
Study: Creative Accomplishment Helps Us Deal With Death
“Our findings suggest that those who pursue creativity, and produce significant creative contributions, may benefit from existential security in the face of death,” the researchers conclude. Artists follow their muses for a myriad of reasons, of course. But this research suggests that, whatever their catalyst, doing creative work — and especially getting recognized for it — conveys an invaluable emotional benefit.
Cheers For The New Head Of Yale’s Playwriting Program
What’s more, he’s the author of the play that became the Oscar contender Moonlight – Tarell Alvin McCraney, who himself graduated from Yale’s program just a decade ago.
Helen Marten Wins 2016 Turner Prize
Just two weeks after the sculptor won the first-ever Hepworth Prize, she’s won Britain’s most famous art honor. And, as with her Hepworth, Marten says she’ll share the Turner money.