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A Con Artist, a Secret Affair, and Drunken Debauchery Enliven New York's Corot Mystery (ARTINFO)
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ARTINFO - In a turn to a story that seems to have been tailor-made to relieve the late summer news doldrums, the courier who claimed to have lost a $1.35 million Corot painting while on a drunken bender at a New York hotel now appears to have been in the employ of a serial scam artist. The improbable imbroglio received its latest twist when it was revealed that Tom Doyle, the co-owner of the missing artwork, is really Thomas Doyle, a convicted crook who just got out of prison for, you guessed it, art theft, according to the New York Times.
ADVISORY-Lloyd Webber art exhibition story withdrawn (Reuters)
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Reuters - Please be advised that Friday's London story saying composer Andrew Lloyd Webber's private art collection is to go on show this month is wrong. The exhibition has already taken place. The following story has been withdrawn.
In Financial Jeopardy, the Seattle Art Museum Seeks a $10 Million Loan (ARTINFO)
Discuss Posted by blevingston 3 days ago (http://us.rd.yahoo.com)
ARTINFO - Though corporate America appears to have weathered the worst of the housing-market collapse, the nonprofit sector is continuing to suffer from the weak economy. The latest organization to face considerable danger is the Seattle Art Museum, which has filed a motion in county court asking for approval of a plan to borrow $10 million from its $96 million endowment in order to avoid having to default on a loan that financed its 2007 downtown expansion.
Is Damien Hirst a Serial Plagiarist? (ARTINFO)
Discuss Posted by blevingston 3 days ago (http://us.rd.yahoo.com)
ARTINFO - Damien Hirst has been accused of a lot of things in his day — from peeing in the sinks of posh Soho clubs in his early years to, of late, making "ugly, ugly, ugly" paintings — and one of the more persistent allegations has been that the bad-boy YBA is a little too quick to steal other artists' ideas. Now this complaint has been vociferously resurrected by Charles Thomson, co-founder of the Stuckist movement, who is accusing Hirst of plagiarizing at least 15 of his most famous works, including his medicine cabinets, spin paintings, diamond-encrusted skull, and pickled shark.
An Imperial Stamp, Protected by a Dragon, Sells for $1.3 Million at a Hong Kong Auction (ARTINFO)
Discuss Posted by blevingston 3 days ago (http://us.rd.yahoo.com)
ARTINFO - Yesterday, ARTINFO ventured into the world of numismatics, discovering a strange and exciting land of niche collectibles. But today we are being even bolder, delving into what some might argue is an even narrower, more specific pursuit: timbrophily! Stamp collectors the world over received a jolt of excitement on Saturday when Hong Kong postage auction house Phila China brought the hammer down on a toasty timbrophilic lot at $1.3 million, a new record in the already-sizzling Chinese stamp market.
Isaac Julien's art seeks to 'allegorise' news tragedy (AFP)
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AFP - British artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien says his art film "Better Life" offers an allegory of the 2004 tragedy in which 23 Chinese cockle pickers drowned at Morecambe Bay, northern England.
Jerry Hall's art collection on auction block (AP)
Discuss Posted by blevingston 3 days ago (http://us.rd.yahoo.com)
AP - Model Jerry Hall plans to auction some of her art collection next month, including a famous portrait by Lucian Freud that shows her nude when she was eight months pregnant, Sotheby's said Monday.
Egypt Cracks Down on Arts Officials After Van Gogh Theft (ARTINFO)
Discuss Posted by blevingston 3 days ago (http://us.rd.yahoo.com)
ARTINFO - Egyptian authorities have been unable to recover the $50 million van Gogh that was stolen in broad daylight from Cairo's Mahmoud Khalil Museum last month, but they have certainly wasted no time in finding scapegoats for the embarrassing theft. Eleven people in the country's arts establishment, including a senior culture minister and the head of the museum, are now set to be tried in court on charges of negligence in protecting the painting.
Sistine Chapel Threatened by Too Much Love (ARTINFO)
Discuss Posted by blevingston 3 days ago (http://us.rd.yahoo.com)
ARTINFO - It appears that the millions of sweat-stained tourists who invade Rome's landmarks every year are a nuisance to more than just the locals — they're even starting to disturb God. At least, that is, the depictions of God on the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel, which showed signs of damage during a routine cleaning this summer. According to Vatican Museums director Antonio Paolucci, the harm has been caused by the 4.5 million people who visit the site each year.
Jerry Hall to Auction a Pregnant Nude Portrait and Other Art at Sotheby's (ARTINFO)
Discuss Posted by blevingston 3 days ago (http://us.rd.yahoo.com)
ARTINFO - As if the action-packed fall art season wasn't sexy enough already, Jerry Hall — world-famous supermodel, actress, and the alleged subject matter of Mick JaggerÂs hit love song, “Miss You”— will be selling her collection of contemporary art at Sotheby’s next month. The 14 artworks, which attest to Hall’s glamorous life amidst the avant-garde 1970s and 80s in New York, will be auctioned to coincide with London’s Frieze Art Fair.
Getty Leads Group to Map Middle Eastern Archaeological Sites (ARTINFO)
Discuss Posted by blevingston 11 days ago (http://us.rd.yahoo.com)
ARTINFO - Artifacts — both the bejeweled objects in museums and the dust-engrimed antiquities still beckoning from archeological sites — are prime economic drivers in history-laden countries like Jordan and Iraq, but the means of pinpointing and maintaining the places where these antiquities are found have long been limited. Hoping to change that is the Middle Eastern Geodatabase for Antiquities, a four-year collaboration between Jordan’s Department of Antiquities, the World Monuments Fund, and the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) in Los Angeles.
Franklin named director of Cleveland Museum of Art (AP)
Discuss Posted by blevingston 11 days ago (http://us.rd.yahoo.com)
AP - The Cleveland Museum of Art has hired a new director.
Cleveland Museum Picks a New Director, Who Survived an Email Scandal (ARTINFO)
Discuss Posted by blevingston 11 days ago (http://us.rd.yahoo.com)
ARTINFO - The Cleveland Museum of Art has named David Franklin as its new director, replacing Timothy Rub who departed the museum to run the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A specialist in Italian Renaissance and baroque art, Franklin, 49, currently serves as the deputy director and chief curator of the National Gallery of Canada.
Twinsets for the In Set: Pringle of Scotland Taps Artists to Design Sweaters (ARTINFO)
Discuss Posted by blevingston 11 days ago (http://us.rd.yahoo.com)
ARTINFO - Pringle of Scotland, founded in 1815 as a purveyor of woolen undergarments, has come quite a way in its nearly two centuries of existence. Their line has evolved from no-nonsense warm garb to sporty golf and tennis gear — and to some of the savviest fashion collaborations with up-and-coming art stars around. To celebrate its 195th birthday, the label has organized "195 Collaborations," a series of pullovers and twinsets (a term the brand is alleged to have coined, along with "knitwear") designed by Contemporary Scottish artists, who will be given the opportunity to re-envision Pringle’s iconic "intarsia" argyle.
$175 Million California Car Auctions Offer a Test Drive of the Art Market (ARTINFO)
Discuss Posted by blevingston 11 days ago (http://us.rd.yahoo.com)
ARTINFO - For anyone looking to gauge the art market's health as September approaches, California's recent near-$175 million series of high-profile classic car auctions in Monterey and Pebble Beach provided a possible indicator, echoing trends in this year's New York and London fine-art sales as buyers pursued rarity and provenance. The two fields also shared similar bidder demographics, with the latest round of car auctions drawing buyers from Brazil, Japan, and the United Arab Emirates as well as the United States and Europe.
A Prize Ham Hammers for $1.6 Million at a Kentucky Auction (ARTINFO)
Discuss Posted by blevingston 11 days ago (http://us.rd.yahoo.com)
ARTINFO - "Are pigs the new cats?" New York Magazine fashion blog The Cut asked this week, noting the sudden omnipresence of porcine creatures in the fashion world as the animal-accessory of choice. Now ARTINFO has a question to ask: Are hams the new Hirsts? A 16-pound country ham earned an outsize, contemporary-art-style $1.6 million at the 47th annual Kentucky Farm Bureau Country Ham Breakfast in Louisville, Kentucky, yesterday morning, according to the Lexington Herald-Ledger.
Zaha Hadid Tapped for Baghdad Bank Building (ARTINFO)
Discuss Posted by blevingston 11 days ago (http://us.rd.yahoo.com)
ARTINFO - Though U.K.-based Architect Zaha Hadid was born in Baghdad, she has never before received a commission to work there — or anywhere in Iraq, for that matter. But that is no longer the case. Authorities at Baghdad's Central Bank have confirmed that the award-winning architect has been picked to design a new headquarters for the institution. Hadid’s new design will replace the bank’s previous home, a marble-clad concrete structure that was attacked by suicide bombers and gunmen on June 13, killing 14 people and injuring well over 50.
Cee Lo says f-bomb song is 'art' (AP)
Discuss Posted by blevingston 11 days ago (http://us.rd.yahoo.com)
AP - Cee Lo's expletive-laden song has been criticized for being in poor taste, but the musician says it's actually a work of art.
A New Group Aims to Protect Graffiti Artists (ARTINFO)
Discuss Posted by blevingston 11 days ago (http://us.rd.yahoo.com)
ARTINFO - Street art, teetering as it has been for the last decade between crime and high-end gallery cash crop, has taken another step toward establishing itself as a legal, rarefied art form. This past weekend saw the launch of the Urban Art Foundation, which styles itself as an ACLU for graffiti-related criminal charges, offering financial backing and legal representation for those arrested for tagging city streets. It also hopes to procure landmark status for some of New York’s finest covertly-made works and promote the art form in public schools.
Gagosian to Open Deluxe Gallery in Paris's "Golden Triangle" (ARTINFO)
Discuss Posted by blevingston 11 days ago (http://us.rd.yahoo.com)
ARTINFO - Art dealer Larry Gagosian has finally lifted the veil on plans his new gallery in Paris, announcing that he will open at the heart of in the city’s "Golden Triangle" off the Champs Élysées on October 20th.
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