The owner of a Manhattan gallery was charged with grand larceny and other crimes by prosecutors who say he mass-produced objects that he passed off as ancient artifacts. Manhattan District Attorney’s Office via The New York Times.
by Colin Moynihan
NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For years, looted antiquities have been a law enforcement priority, not only because the smuggling of ancient artifacts damages the cultural heritage of their countries of origin, but because illicit sales have sometimes financed the operation of drug gangs or terror organizations. But prosecutors say Mehrdad Sadigh, a New York antiquities dealer whose Sadigh Gallery has operated for decades in the shadow of the Empire State Building, decided not to go to the trouble of acquiring ancient items. He made bogus copies instead, they say, creating thousands of phony antiquities in a warren of offices just off his display area and then marketing them to unsophisticated and overeager collectors. “For many years, this fake antiquities mill based in midtown Manhattan promised customers rare treasures from the ancient world and instead sold them pieces manufactured on-site in cookie-cutter fashion,” the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr., said in a statement after Sadigh was ... More
His only child, Steven, and friends and fellow artists John Thamm and Dana Jester carry the heft of the storytelling here.
by Lisa Kennedy
NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Bob Ross’ hair was a thing of beauty. When he appeared on “Live! With Regis and Kathie Lee,” Regis Philbin teased him about his Afro, which Ross sweetly admitted might be more nurtured than nature. And photos of Ross as a teenager and then as a young airman rocking a pompadour make clear he always liked a good ’do. This is among the cheerier scenes in director Joshua Rofé’s “Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed,” a documentary less about Ross’ life than about what happened to his brand in the later years and after his death. Annette and Walt Kowalski, who were Ross’ business partners, are not painted in a flattering light. (The couple declined to participate in the film.) Ross’ television show, “The Joy of Painting,” ran from 1983 to 1994. And the title nods to the way ... More
An extremely rare Meissen famille verte goblet. Courtesy Sotheby’s.
NEW YORK, NY.-Sotheby’s today unveils highlights from one of the greatest pre-war collections of Meissen porcelain to appear at auction in more than 60 years. Meticulously assembled by Dr. Franz and Margarethe Oppenheimer in the early decades of the 20th century, this exquisite group of 117 lots is among the most significant ensembles of early 18th century Meissen porcelain from Europe’s first porcelain manufactory – many of which are distinguished by illustrious royal and noble provenance, including pieces from the collection of Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, and founder of the Meissen porcelain factory. Presented in a dedicated live auction on 14 September in New York, the collection is poised to achieve more than $2 million, with individual estimates ranging from $300 to $400,000 and approximately one third of the lots offered without reserve. All of the works on offer will be on view in Sotheby’ ... More
STOCKHOLM.-Nationalmuseum has acquired An Allegory of War, a painting by Louis Masreliez originally intended to be one of two overdoor pieces for King Gustav III’s bedchamber in the royal palace in Stockholm. The work is of major significance, marking a transition in the artist’s oeuvre from epic historical scenes to more decorative works. As one of the leading painters and interior designers of the Gustavian period, Louis Masreliez (1748–1810) was equal to the task. Born in Paris, he arrived in Stockholm at the age of five when his father, the ornamental sculptor Adrien Masreliez, was hired to work on the new palace. Young Louis soon proved to be something of an artistic child prodigy. He received the best possible education, which culminated in 1769 in a travel scholarship. Via Paris he travelled to Rome, where he studied for the next 12 years. In this cosmopolitan environment Masreliez mixed with ... More
In this file photo taken on July 12, 2021 US director and Jury President of the 74th Cannes Film Festival Spike Lee poses as he arrives for the screening of the film "The French Dispatch" at the 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes. CHRISTOPHE SIMON / AFP.
NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Facing mounting criticism for spotlighting conspiracy theorists in his new HBO documentary series about the Sept. 11 attacks on New York, filmmaker Spike Lee said Wednesday that he was reediting the final episode. Lee’s HBO series, “NYC Epicenters 9/11-2021 1/2,” explores the effect of the terrorist attacks and the coronavirus pandemic on New York City. The final episode, which is scheduled to air on the 20th anniversary of the attacks, prominently featured members of the conspiracy group Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, who push the debunked idea that the towers of the World Trade Center were brought down by a controlled ... More
In this file photo taken on August 27, 1944 showing US soldiers admiring The Eiffel Tower in Paris, following the liberation of the French capital during World War II. STF / AFP.
PARIS(AFP).- Agence France-Presse is hosting its first-ever photo auction with some 200 pictures from its analogue collection, with shots of the liberation of Paris, Martin Luther King and the body of Che Guevara all on offer. Prints of daily life across five decades but also of war, sport and stars from the glitzy worlds of music, cinema, fashion and art will go on sale on October 3, at a Parisian events space and online. Historical snaps up for grabs include Martin Luther King on the day of his "I have a dream" speech in Washington in 1963, Che Guevara's body -- killed by the Bolivian army in 1967 -- and Nelson Mandela after his release from jail in 1990. AFP's director of photography said the collection offers a rare glimpse into the agency's trove of pictures dating back decades. "Some of the photos ... More
LONDON.- Three international photographers have been shortlisted for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2021, the prestigious photography award organised by the National Portrait Gallery, London. The shortlisted works will be displayed in the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2021 exhibition at Cromwell Place, a new arts hub in South Kensington, London from the 10 November 2021 until 2 January 2022, while the Gallery’s building in St Martin’s Place is closed for major redevelopment works. Selected by a panel of judges from 5,392 entries from 2,215 photographers, the shortlisted photographers are: · Katya Ilina for her portrait David, which examines body positivity in masculinity and celebrates gender in its fluid physical form. · Pierre-Elie de Pibrac for his series of portraits Hakanai Sonzai, taken in some of Japan’s most troubled regions and focusing on people who exhibited fortitude in the face of advers ... More
This lavishly illustrated book presents the Klesch portrait by Titian of Guidobaldo II with his son Francesco Maria, with exciting new research and full documentation of recent analyses and restoration.
LONDON.- This lavishly illustrated book presents the Klesch portrait by Titian of Guidobaldo II with his son Francesco Maria, with exciting new research and full documentation of recent analyses and restoration. The Klesch portrait by Titian of Guidobaldo II with his son Francesco Maria represents the Duke of Urbino in his full power as supreme commander of papal troops, with his heir next to him. This rare, full-length double portrait has only recently been fully attributed to Titian after undergoing extensive analyses and restoration, revealing a beautiful painting in non finito manner, with bravura impasto passages entirely characteristic of the master, all of which is illustrated and explained in this new book. Titian provided portraits for the greatest men and women of Europe, Charles V and Philip II of Spain primary among them. For years the Klesch portrait was ... More
Bill Watterson Calvin and Hobbes Daily Comic Strip Original Art dated 12-30-87 (Universal Press Syndicate, 1987).
DALLAS, TX.- Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson has been, and remains, a very private person. He's a hard man to find, as is any original artwork featuring his beloved creations: the angst-ridden, wisecracking, shrewd 6-year-old and the stuffed tiger who, from 1985 until 1995, served as his best friend and foil. For that reason, among so many others, Heritage Auctions will offer original artwork for a strip from 1987 in the Sept. 8-12 Comics and Comic Art Signature Auction. "Offering a Watterson Calvin and Hobbes original is always a special treat since Heritage has only offered 10 originals in 20 years," says Heritage Auctions comic grader Xavier E. Chavez. "Most never left the artist's vault and were only given to family and friends, making collectors fight for any example that comes to market. This winter-themed strip was gifted to the consignor commemorating the birth of their own 'little Calvin,' as it reads on ... More
nstallation view of “Wong Ping: Your Silent Neighbor” at the New Museum in Manhattan, which features six of the Hong Kong artist’s animated works. Dario Lasagni/New Museum via The New York Times.
by Dawn Chan
NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Wong Ping’s animations give us a glimpse into a strange inner world — a world of hapless and depraved characters caught in a sequence of surreal plot twists. The New Museum show “Wong Ping: Your Silent Neighbor,” through Oct. 3, features six of this Hong Kong artist’s engaging animated works, which started turning up in prestigious exhibitions worldwide after he left a tedious postproduction job in TV and founded Wong Ping Animation Lab in 2014. With his deliberately crude creations, Wong seems determined to spurn the polished world of high-end TV. His characters are built from basic geometric forms. Scenes are rendered in cyans, reds and lime greens that will unleash memories (if you have them, and I do) of “surfing the web” on ... More
Frank Frazetta The People That Time Forgot "Captive Princess" Cover Painting Original Art (Ace, 1973).
DALLAS, TX.- For the first time since it was finished nearly 50 years ago, Frank Frazetta's Captive Princess is heading to auction. Which means it is no longer the painting that time forgot. Frazetta completed the work in 1973 for Ace Books' paperback edition of Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1918 novel The People That Time Forgot, and ever since, this peak-period painting has been out of sight but never out of mind. After all, it's the stuff of classic Frazetta, a dynamite slice of prehistory featuring ape-like warriors carrying off a cave girl on the primeval island of Caprona after its discovery by an expedition. Captive Princess makes its auction debut in Heritage Auctions' Sept. 8-12 Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction alongside centerpiece works by Alex Ross, Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby and other comic-art titans, not to mention several other Frazetta must-haves including sketches and studies. "A strong case can certainly be made for ... More
Long serving Curator Ann M. Wolfe is promoted to Chief Curator and Associate Director.
RENO, NV.-The Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, Nevada, today announced the appointment of the trailblazing art historian and curator Apsara DiQuinzio as the Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, effective November 1, 2021. DiQuinzio will conceive and realize exhibitions, produce original scholarship, and guide the Museum in strategic decision-making for contemporary art acquisitions. The Museum’s curatorial department will be under the direction of Ann M. Wolfe, who has been promoted to Andrea and John C. Deane Family Chief Curator and Associate Director. David B. Walker, CEO, Nevada Museum of Art, said, “Apsara DiQuinzio has established herself as a national leader among curators, considering art as a catalyst for civic engagement and discourse. We are thrilled that she is bringing her keen eye, public spirit, and critical acumen to our curatorial team particularly now during a time of significant institutional ... More
The Grand Prospect Hall in Brooklyn, first built in 1892 as a playground for rich New Yorkers, is pictured on Dec. 31, 1998. Over the years, it transformed into a Brooklyn icon. Angel Franco/The New York Times.
by Ashley Wong
NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For almost 40 years, New Yorkers knew Grand Prospect Hall by one simple phrase: “We make your dreams come true!” Now, the dreamland may soon be demolished: The new owner of the building, an iconic Victorian banquet hall, has applied for it to be torn down, public records show. Purchased by Michael and Alice Halkias in 1981, Grand Prospect Hall became famous for its campy, low-budget television commercials, which were set to soaring orchestral music and featured the couple throwing out their arms and making their signature promise. So popular were the ads that they were spoofed by both “Saturday Night Live” and “Jimmy Kimmel Live.” In its heyday, the ballroom was transformed ... More
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Michael Morgan, adventurous Oakland maestro, dies at 63 NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Michael Morgan, the music director of the Oakland Symphony in California, who in his 30 years in that post sought to bring orchestral music to a broader audience, particularly young people and people of color, died Aug. 20 in Oakland. He was 63. The cause was complications of an infection, the orchestra said. Morgan had received a kidney transplant in May and had just resumed conducting last month. As one of the few Black maestros leading a substantial professional orchestra, Morgan was eager to diversify the symphony’s programming and its audience. “My main goal,” he told the weekly newspaper The California Voice in 1991 as he was beginning his Oakland tenure, “is to show the rest of the field of orchestra music that you can make an orchestra relevant and of interest to the community, especially ... More
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago appoints Laura Herrera as Senior Director of Communications and Content CHICAGO, IL.- Madeleine Grynsztejn, Pritzker Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, announces the appointment of Laura Herrera as Senior Director of Communications and Content, a newly created position that advances the museum’s values, mission, and efforts across all digital, interpretive, marketing, press, and publication platforms. In her new role, Herrera will catalyze the museum’s vision to spark meaningful engagement with art, artists, and ideas, provide forums for new perspectives, and build bridges between people and communities. Herrera will focus on shaping a future MCA audience that reflects the ever-evolving cultural fabric of Chicago while maintaining the museum’s international reputation ... More
Earliest Hong Kong banknote sells for £161,200 at Dix Noonan Webb LONDON.- A remarkable and recently discovered ‘Hong Kong 1860’ Five Dollar Banknote - the earliest known fully issued banknote of any denomination for Hong Kong – sold for £161,200 (including buyers’ premium) at Dix Noonan Webb in their auction of British, Irish and World Banknotes today (Thursday, August 26, 2021) at their Mayfair saleroom (16 Bolton Street, London W1J 8BQ). It was estimated to fetch £30,000-50,000. The consignor was unsure how it arrived in the UK, but it is believed that it came back to the UK in the late 1800s, probably with a British person working or travelling in the Far East, and lay undiscovered for over 150 years. Bought by a collector in Hong Kong, the note was issued by the Oriental Bank Corporation - the first bank to open a branch in Hong Kong - the note is dated 1 June 1860, and has the serial number ... More
Sequins and soul-searching in the competitive dance world NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In spring, Siara Fuller, the artistic director of Charlotte Performing Arts Academy in North Carolina, brought a group of students to a dance competition in Fort Mill, South Carolina. It was, in many ways, an ordinary weekend within the extraordinary world of competitive dance: Hundreds of young dancers assembled at a convention center, donned glittery costumes and giant false lashes, and presented spit-polished routines for a panel of judges. (Because of COVID-19, the dancers accessorized with face masks.) But a moment from that weekend nags at Fuller, who is Black, as are most of her students. Nine of her dancers performed a jazz piece set to Beyoncé’s “Crazy in Love,” which featured fan kicks and pirouettes — hallmarks of competitive jazz — while also, as Fuller described it, “getting a little funky.” ... More
At Rockaway, dancing for the sea, the sky, the sand and the birds NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- “The beach is a moody place, you know?” choreographer Moriah Evans said. Rockaway Beach, stretched under a sky of filmy clouds, was certainly in a mood last Friday as waves sprouted higher and higher and the squawks of sea gulls were interrupted by the alarming beeps of a weather alert. “Whoa, what is that?” Evans asked before muttering under her breath, “Get out now.” A storm was brewing, but Evans was only mildly agitated. It is what it is. The backdrop of her newest work, a one-off, is the ocean. She’s giving spontaneity a serious whirl. In the aptly named “Repose,” 21 dancers will progress from Beach 86th to Beach 110th streets Sunday starting at 1 p.m. Performing several movement scores drawn from everyday actions and responses to nature at the beach, the dancers will travel 1.4 miles ... More
Freeway sculpture unveiled in Melbourne's west MELBOURNE.- Melbourne’s public art scene has a stunning addition, with a new sculpture unveiled alongside the Princes Freeway in Werribee. Backyard, by local artist Jon Campbell, represents a stylised pop version of Campbell’s childhood backyard in the western suburb of Altona. Described as a linear, multi-coloured design, like a billboard floating in space, Backyard invites viewers to reflect on their own environment and the spaces they inhabit. It serves as a visual reminder of the $1.8 billion Western Roads Upgrade project – the biggest single investment in Melbourne’s suburban road network, which has delivered eight priority upgrades including three new bridges over the freeway, road widenings, intersection upgrades, 30 kilometres of duplicated lanes and major road rehabilitation works. The works were delivered by Major Road ... More
Road car choice of F1 drivers Juan Manuel Fangio, Jean Behra and Mike Hawthorn to be offered at H&H Classics LONDON.- Coming to auction for the first time in its sixty-six year history, this very special Aurelia B20GT is worthy of close inspection and another long-term custodian! Offered for sale with original buff logbook, Lancia Consortium paperwork and numerous bills / invoices. A surely unrepeatable opportunity. A Highly desirable Fourth Series variant with the stronger De Dion tube rear suspension and larger 2.5 litre V6 engine. Subject to a bodywork restoration during 2011 it is a UK supplied car re-finished in its original cellulose livery and is believed to have covered just 44,000 miles from new. Richard Heseltine, writing in Motor Sport magazine, said of the Aurelia: “Time was when Lancia had its own unique style and disdained ... More
ACE Open announces Allison Chhorn as the recipient of the 2022 Porter Street Commission ADELAIDE.-ACE Open announced Allison Chhorn as the recipient of the 2022 Porter Street Commission. Now in its second year, the Porter Street Commission annually awards $20,000 to a South Australian artist at any stage of their career to create an ambitious new work to be presented as a solo exhibition at ACE Open in the following year. Made possible by the Porter Street Fund, which exists as a result of the sale of the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia (CACSA)’s Parkside property, it is open to those working across all contemporary art forms and is designed to support a significant next step in a South Australian artist's career and exhibiting trajectory. Allison Chhorn is a Cambodian-Australian film-maker and multidisciplinary artist. While specialising in painting during her Visual Arts studies at UniSA, she discovered photography, installation ... More
Big bold gold NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- “I just like the sound of it,” Natasha Ghosn said about naming her jewelry and fragrance brand Mondo Mondo. “I was thinking of Mondo films, Italian, kitschiness and campiness.” Ghosn, 34, began her line in 2008, when she was living in New York making digitally printed T-shirts that she painted by hand. Now the brand has come to exemplify the bold, 1980s-influenced jewelry of the moment. After years when subtle jewelry — delicate bands, thin chains, little studs — dominated trends, Mondo Mondo stands apart. It’s jewelry for extroverts, or at least those who want to look like one. The extravagant, gilded shapes wink at the 1980s designs by Christian Lacroix, Moschino, Verducci and Chanel. But rather than being collected by socialites to be worn at luncheons, the necklaces and earrings and rings and cuffs ... More
Jean Breeze, first woman of dub poetry, dies at 65 NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Jean Breeze, a passionate Jamaican poet who reveled in the performance of dub poetry, a half-spoken, half-chanted style of storytelling often backed by the rhythms of reggae, died Aug. 4 at a hospital in Kingston. She was 65. Her death was announced on social media by her British agency, Renaissance One Writers and Events. No cause was given, but she had a chronic lung disease for years. Breeze, known as Binta, was widely acknowledged to be the first woman to make a name for herself in the male-dominated genre of dub poetry. (Dub is a recording term that refers to the process of adding or removing sounds.) The genre originated in Kingston in the 1970s and was amplified in London and Toronto, both cities with large populations of Caribbean immigrants, and it was in England that Breeze rose to fame. ... More
Why the baby on Nirvana's 'Nevermind' album is suing now NEW YORK(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Spencer Elden was 4 months old when he was photographed by a family friend in 1991 drifting naked in a pool. The picture, taken at the Rose Bowl Aquatics Center in Pasadena, California, would be used that year for the cover of “Nevermind,” Nirvana’s seminal second album that helped define Generation X and rocketed the Seattle band to international fame. In the decades that followed, Elden appeared to celebrate his part in the classic cover, recreating the moment for the album’s 10th, 17th, 20th and 25th anniversaries, though not naked. “It’s cool but weird to be part of something so important that I don’t even remember,” he said in 2016 in an interview with The New York Post, in which he posed holding the album cover at 25. Now, however, Elden, 30, has filed a federal lawsuit against the estate of Kurt ... More
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On a day like today, Italian artist Titian died
September 27, 1576. Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488/1490 - 27 August 1576) known in English as Titian was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno (in Veneto), in the Republic of Venice. During his lifetime he was often called da Cadore, taken from the place of his birth. In this image: A woman looks at Titian's painting "Mary Magdalene in Penitence" during a press preview of an exhibition of 16th and 17th century Italian painting at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, Greece, on Monday Sept. 22, 2008. The exhibition "From Titian to Pietro da Cortona: Myth Poetry and the Sacred," ran until Dec. 20. On display were 24 works by Titian and other Italian masters, on loan from a score of Italian galleries and collections.
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