Trial Begins for Rhode Island Art Dealer, Rocco DeSimone, Accused of $6 Million Con

PROVIDENCE, RI (AP).- A former art dealer earlier convicted of tax fraud duped investors out of $6 million and used the money to buy cars, antique Japanese swords and valuable works of art, a prosecutor said as the man’s trial began in federal court Wednesday. Rocco DeSimone has pleaded not guilty to mail fraud and other charges in the case. His defense attorneys declined to deliver an opening statement. But they wrote in a pre-trial court filing that they plan [...]

French Photographer Raphael Dallaporta Wins Foam Paul Huf Award 2011

AMSTERDAM.- On Wednesday evening the 2nd of March Raphaël Dallaporta (1980) was chosen as the winner of the Foam Paul Huf Award 2011 by an international jury. Along with a cash prize of € 20.000,- Dallaporta will have an exhibition in Foam from 9th September to 26th October 2011. Antipersonnel M18, USA, 2004 © Raphael Dallaporta The Foam Paul Huf Award continues to attract portfolios from all over the world. Out of 81 nominees this year, 25 were from Europe, 7 [...]

Acclaimed Curators and Museum Leaders to Serve as Jurors for 2011 No Dead Artists Exhibition

NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Three renowned arts professionals, Toby Devan Lewis, William Morrow and Susan Taylor comprise this year’s juror panel of the 15th Annual No Dead Artists National Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Art. All three have extensive curatorial experience and close ties to American museums. A presentation of ArtDaily.org and the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, this year’s No Dead Artists exhibition runs from September 1 through Sept 24, 2011 at the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans. Submissions are open to American [...]

Times Square Alliance Presents a Major Public art Exhibition at the Crossroads of the World

NEW YORK, NY.- As part of an ongoing commitment to bring the best of contemporary art to Times Square, the Times Square Alliance presents a major public art exhibition at the Crossroads of the World as part of Armory Arts Week. The Times Square Show 2011, comprised of five whimsical and thought-provoking world-class sculptures, began on Tuesday, March 1. The outdoor exhibition features four sculptures presented in partnership with the Armory Art Show — artists include: Tom Otterness, Niki de Saint Phalle, [...]

Nevada Museum of Art Presents Internationally-Renowned Artist Leo Villareal ‘Animating Light’

RENO, NV.- Nevada Museum of Art presents internationally-renowned artist Leo Villareal, who will lead participants through the nature of light and the unique experience of his dynamic, immersive light sculptures and installations. On view from March 5, 2011 through May 22, 2011. Leo Villareal, Flag, 2008. LEDs, custom software, and electrical hardware, 75 x 144 x 4 inches. Courtesy Gering & López Gallery, New York. Image courtesy of the artist and the San Jose Museum of Art. Leo Villareal is [...]

Family Gatherings at Christie’s Swiss Art Sale in Zurich

ZURICH.- Like father, Like son: Christie’s spring sale of Swiss art at the Kunsthaus Zurich on 21 March 2011 will bring together outstanding works from famous artist fathers and their equally famous sons. The top lot of the sale, which comes from a Swiss private collection, is Giovanni Giacometti’s family portrait Unter dem Holunder / Under the elder tree (1911) (estimate SFr. 1,8 – 2,5 million). The family is one of the core subjects of Giovanni Giacometti’s oeuvre. Christie’s set a [...]

Select Offering of Fine Photographs at Auction this Month at Swann Galleries in N.Y.

NEW YORK, N.Y.- On Thursday, March 24, Swann Galleries will conduct an auction of Fine Photographs that features early photographic images and photobooks, classic modern images and examples of contemporary art. Susan Derges, “The Observer and the Observed #6,” silver print, 1992. Copyright Susan Derges. Estimate: $9,000 to $12,000. Photo: Courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries. A selection of 19th-century albums kicks off the sale with Linnaeus Tripe’s Photographs of the Elliot Marbles; and Other Subjects; In the Central Museum Madras, a [...]

Polish Artist Anna Ostoya Exhibits 28 Works Made in February at Bortolami Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Bortolami Gallery presents the first New York solo exhibition of works by the Polish artist Anna Ostoya. The show features a series of new collages on canvas entitled Exposures that were all made during February 2011. For this series, Ostoya staged a durational performance. Each day, she began a new work with the aim of finishing 28 canvases-as many as there are days in February-by the time of the opening on March 1st. Anna Ostoya, Exposures: 2.02.2011, [...]

Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery Presents a Solo Exhibition of the Brooklyn-Based Artist José Par

NEW YORK, NY.- Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery presents Walls, Diaries, and Paintings, a solo exhibition of the Brooklyn-based artist José Parlá. On view from March 3 through April 16, 2011. Walls, Diaries, and Paintings features fifteen new paintings, that chronicle Parlá’s exploration of the diverse places and cultures he has traversed. From Istanbul to Havana, from Tokyo to New York, the colors and textures of the neighborhoods and alleyways have found a forceful and moving resolution in Parlá’s works that are [...]

Sotheby’s Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year Results; Full Year Revenues Increase 60%

NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s today announced results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2010. 2010 brought the best financial results for Sotheby’s in its 267-year history, apart from 2007. Consolidated Sales* were $2.0 billion in the fourth quarter and $4.8 billion in the year, an increase of 57% and 74%, respectively. For the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2010, total revenues were $318.0 million and $774.3 million, respectively, an increase of 46% and 60%, when [...]

Fotomuseum Winterthur Presents Retrospective of One of the Founders of Photojournalism

WINTERTHUR.- André Kertész is possibly the most photographic of all photographers: he sought out the play of light and shadow; he liked the concentration and overlapping of forms, of moments; and in the everyday, in banality, he recognized poetry, beauty, and even, for all his innate modesty, the “sublime.” Kertész is a photographic poet and seer, for whom it was long difficult to break into the market precisely because of his rich, chiseled iconography. André Kertész, July 3, 1979. Polaroid [...]

Acclaimed Private Collection of 17th-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings at Peabody Essex Museum

SALEM, MA.- One of the world’s best private collections of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings, including masterworks by Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Gerrit Dou, Jan Steen and others, were unveiled this winter at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Massachusetts. Golden: Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection presents paintings, furniture and decorative arts exceptional for their quality, superb condition and impeccable provenance. As exemplars of the Dutch Golden Age, the works are distinguished not only [...]

David Hockney’s Bigger Trees Near Warter Shown Outside of London for the First Time

LONDON.- The largest painting David Hockney has ever created is shown in the York Art Gallery through June 12 2011 , for the first time outside London. Bigger Trees Near Warter or/ou Peinture Sur Le Motif Pour Le Nouvel Age Post-Photograpique 2007, measuring 12m by 4.5m, is made up of 50 smaller canvasses of a landscape near the East Yorkshire village of Warter. David Hockney poses with Bigger Trees Near Warter or/ou Peinture Sur Le Motif Pour Le Nouvel Age Post-Photograpique [...]

Museo del Prado Presents a Comprehensive Survey of the Work of Jean Siméon Chardin

MADRID.- The Museo del Prado presents the exhibition Chardin, a comprehensive survey of the work of Jean Siméon Chardin (1699-1779). Chardin is one of the leading names in 18th-century French painting but has never been the subject of an exhibition in Spain, which only houses three of his paintings, all in the Museo Thyssen. After being shown at the Palazzo dei Diamante in Ferrara, the exhibition is presented in Madrid thanks to the sponsorship of Fundación AXA. It comprises 57 paintings by [...]