LJ Rader tries to be online as much as possible during big sporting events, but he missed the first half of last Sunday’s N.F.L. playoff game between the Buffalo Bills and the Kansas City Chiefs because of a dinner engagement. After he left the restaurant, Mr. Rader checked his phone
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Hands-On Art at the Brooklyn Museum’s New Education Center
It could easily be an alien civilization: Its citizens have no gender, no organized religion, no formal government. They inhabit a lush ecosystem of candy-colored vegetation, where plants can grow infinitely tall. Residents travel on driverless, ring-shaped buses that hover in the atmosphere. A single year lasts more than two
A Leading Land Art Work Is Imperiled — by Its Patron
The American land artist and designer Mary Miss was traveling in Europe in October when she received the kind of news that no one in her line of work wants to hear. One of her most significant artworks, owned by an Iowa museum, would need to be closed to the
Italian Culture Official Investigated in Stolen Art Case
A deputy culture minister in Italy is under investigation, accused of laundering stolen goods, in particular a Baroque painting that had been reported stolen from a castle in Piedmont, Italy, a decade ago. The deputy minister, Vittorio Sgarbi, who is an art historian and critic, as well as a media
Orlando Museum of Art Drops Legal Claims Against Owners of Fake Basquiats
The Orlando Museum of Art announced Friday that it was dismissing its legal claims of fraud and conspiracy against five co-owners of paintings who touted them as the creations of the art world legend Jean-Michel Basquiat and lent them for a 2022 exhibition. In a statement, the museum’s board chairman,
At Art Fraud Trial, Sotheby’s Is Pressed on Role in Sales to Russian Oligarch
The painting Sotheby’s was trying to sell was a newly discovered work by one of the world’s greatest artists, Leonardo da Vinci. It was known as the “Salvator Mundi” and was a depiction of Christ. But it had a code name: Jack. Samuel Valette, a Sotheby’s specialist, testified in a
At Queens Museum, the Director Is as Political as the Art
Last month, as reports circulated that President Trump intended to end the policy Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which shields young undocumented immigrants from deportation, Laura Raicovich, the president and executive director of the Queens Museum, took to Twitter. “Defending DACA is just the right thing to do,” she wrote.
National Gallery of Art Receives Major Gift of Works by Joseph Cornell
Joseph Cornell, who died in 1972 at the age of 69, belongs to the tradition of the homebody-artist. A gray whisper of a man, he eschewed the excitements of travel in favor of a tea-filled life in his house on Utopia Parkway in Queens. His medium was the Box —
Sotheby’s to Oligarch at Art Fraud Trial: The Buck Stopped With You
Dmitry Rybolovlev survived the turmoil of the collapse of the Soviet Union, founded a bank in Russia in the 1990s and built a fortune of roughly $7 billion from the sale of a potash fertilizer company. He managed to get that wealth out of Russia, acquired a share in a
Russian Oligarch Who Says He Was Cheated Testifies at Art Fraud Trial
As the owner of Monaco’s beloved soccer team, Dmitry Rybolovlev, who is often photographed at matches, has hardly kept a low profile. Yet his appearance on Thursday when he took the witness stand in Manhattan was still rare: a Russian oligarch seeking justice in an American courtroom. Rybolovlev was in