Glafira Rosales, a Long Island art dealer at the center of a scandal involving sales of purported fake paintings by Abstract Expressionist masters, was arrested in Long Island today and charged with filing false tax returns and failing to disclose a foreign bank account to the Internal Revenue Service. The charges were announced by U.S. attorney Preet Bharara, Toni Weinrauch, special agent in charge of the New York field office of the IRS criminal investigation division, and George Venizelos, the assistant director of the FBI’s New York office. (more…)
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May 21, 2013, 5:10 pm
Knoedler Gallery Controversy Continues as Long Island Dealer Glafira Rosales is Arrested
March 27, 2013, 2:20 pm
Live-Stream Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Announcing its New Director, If You Want
If, for some reason, you’re dying to know the identity of the new director of Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) — the group that runs the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor — before everyone else (except Lee Rosenbaum, who called it for Colin Bailey 10 days ago), you can watch a live-stream of FAMSF’s “Special Announcement” today at noon Pacific Standard Time (3pm Eastern Standard Time). (more…)
February 27, 2013, 2:12 pm
New Indianapolis Museum of Art Director Wants More Blockbuster Shows
The new director of the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA), Charles Venable, is unabashedly excited about using blockbuster exhibitions — including “Speed: The Art of the Performance Automobile,” a recent show at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts that he hopes to use as the main concept for a forthcoming show — to replenish the institution’s endowment after it dropped by $100 million in 2008, while cutting costs by $2 million. “We need to maximize audience and perform financially at a different level,” he told the Indy Star, a two-fold goal towards which he has made major strides since taking the museum’s reins in October of last year. (more…)
December 27, 2012, 7:43 am
Italy Publishes Massive Digital Archive of Catholic Art
A digital catalogue of Italy’s staggeringly diffuse holdings in ecclesiastical art has been published on the Church’s website, ChiesaCattolica.it. Though still a work in progress (Ermanno Rivetti at The Art Newspaper has pointed out “gaps” around the Florentine and Neapolitan dioceses), the 16-year-old archive is being touted as a unique tool against theft, in addition to making images of thousands of works from tens of thousands of churches available to anyone around the world. So far, users can view up to 3.5 million such images from 216 Italian dioceses around the country. (more…)
December 19, 2012, 5:54 pm
Perry Rubenstein and Sara Fitzmaurice Honor Nicholas Baume at Los Angeles Dinner
On Monday night, art PR maven Sara Fitzmaurice of Fitz & Co and her husband, art dealer Perry Rubenstein, hosted an intimate dinner in honor of Nicholas Baume, director and chief curator of the Public Art Fund. Baume, who was in Los Angeles for several days before heading to his native Australia, was joined by 35 of Los Angeles and New York art-world luminaries for a sit-down dinner at Rubenstein’s Kulapat Yantrasast-designed Hollywood gallery.
December 19, 2012, 9:00 am
And Just Like That, the Bushwick Gallery Scene Has Become Overcrowded
Nyssa Frank is widely credited for sowing the seeds of the Bushwick art district with the Living Gallery, which she opened on Flushing Avenue in 2010. Now, the pond appears to have gotten too small — or at least too crowded. Searching for broader pastures, she has announced her plans to move. (more…)
December 4, 2012, 12:01 pm
Miami Itinerary: Tuesday, December 4
Previews, vernissages, and opening receptions begin in full force today. Below today’s events you’ll find all the fairs and on-going events. Enjoy! (more…)
November 20, 2012, 12:54 pm
After Sandy Delays and Fundraiser, Marylyn Dintenfass Show Opens at Driscoll Babcock
On Saturday night Marylyn Dintenfass (above) opened her new solo show, “Drop Dead Gorgeous,” at Chelsea’s Driscoll Babcock Galleries following several delays due to Hurricane Sandy’s devastating effects on the neighborhood. In the meantime, Dintenfass opened her studio for a special hurricane relief fundraiser on November 8 to benefit the New York Foundation for the Arts‘ Emergency Relief Fund. (more…)
November 14, 2012, 3:19 pm
PINTA Broadens Its Borders, Adding Spain and Portugal to This Week’s New York Fair
One day in 2010 Alejandro Zaia welcomed an important English collector to PINTA, the Latin American art fair he had cofounded three years earlier. “It was a Friday afternoon, I remember,” he says, “and he bought a Botero and a Tamayo — he spent $1.5 million in an hour. Sometimes those things happen.” (more…)
October 30, 2012, 7:40 pm
Photos of Last Night’s Storm Surge in Chelsea
As the historic Hurricane Sandy approached New York yesterday, some jokesters circulated images from Superflex’s 2009 “Flooded McDonald’s” art installation on the Internet, claiming that they were real pictures from the front lines of the superstorm. While that may have been a hoax, it turns out very similar scenes could be found last night in Chelsea, wreaking as-yet-uncounted damages on the neighborhood’s galleries and art spaces. Our photographer Katya Valevich captured these pictures of high tide in Chelsea. (more…)
