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“At art fairs, people look too quickly,” said Jason Poirier dit Caulier, the founder and director of the Plus-One Gallery in Antwerp, Belgium. “Here they take a bit more time. They almost want to touch,” he added. Poirier dit Caulier was standing in a branch of his dealership, in front of an ingeniously illusionistic painting by the Belgian artist Ritsart Gobyn, 37, that attracted plenty of up-close admiration during Antwerp Art Weekend , an annual celebration of the city’s contemporary artists and gallerists that concluded on Sunday. Although Gobyn’s artwork looked like a bare canvas with strips of masking tape and fragments from art books stuck to it, it was, in fact, a highly detailed two-dimensional painting in oils, on display with 26 similar works in “Prologue,” a solo exhibition that was part of the Art Weekend program. The show proved a commercial hit. At least 25 of the oils, which give a contemporary twist to Northern Europe’s centuries-old tradition of … [Read more...] about At Antwerp Art Weekend, Collectors Buy With Their Gut

Even before Documenta opened on Saturday in Kassel, Germany, the renowned contemporary art exhibition had roiled with controversy over the inclusion of artists who have criticized Israel. Now, just four days into the 100-day show, which runs through Sept. 16, its organizers said on Tuesday that they would remove a work that “triggers antisemitic readings” after an outcry from lawmakers and diplomats. That piece, a nearly 60-foot-long painted banner called “People’s Justice,” was created by the Indonesian collective Taring Padi in 2002, when its members included activists who had struggled under Indonesia’s military dictatorship. The banner’s busy, cartoonlike depiction of political resistance involves hundreds of individual figures. Two of those figures stirred outrage on Monday, after photographs of them circulated on social media. One was a man with side-locks and fangs, wearing a hat emblazoned with a Nazi emblem. The other was a soldier with a pig’s head, wearing a Star of … [Read more...] about Documenta Takes Down Art After Antisemitism Accusations

0 Arts & Entertainment County officials and residents will honor the late Doug Hall, a driving force behind the county funding the new center. D'Ann Lawrence White , Patch Staff Posted Reply The New Tampa Performing Arts Center at 8550 Hunters Village Road includes a 350-seat theater/multipurpose venue with a stage, catwalk and orchestra pit. The center’s 20,000-square-foot-building will provide a long-awaited venue for fostering community theater and other events for residents and performing arts groups in the New Tampa area. The space provides flexibility for conducting theater, dance and arts events, including educational programming for residents of all ages, as well as a rental space for events and weddings. The New Tampa Performing Arts Center at 8550 Hunters Village Road includes a 350-seat theater/multipurpose venue with a stage, catwalk and orchestra pit. On hand for the Oct. … [Read more...] about 1st Production At New Tampa Performing Arts Center Scheduled Saturday

Emily Fisher Landau, a New Yorker who used a Lloyd’s insurance settlement from a spectacular jewel heist in her apartment to fund what would become one of America’s premier collections of contemporary art, died on March 27 in Palm Beach, Fla. She was 102. Her death was confirmed by her daughter, Candia Fisher. From 1991 to 2017, Ms. Landau opened her collection of 1,200 artworks to the public in the Fisher Landau Center for Art, a repurposed former factory in Long Island City, Queens. In 2010, she pledged almost 400 works, then worth between $50 million and $75 million, to the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she had long been a trustee. Ms. Landau’s trajectory into the art world began unexpectedly on a spring afternoon in 1969, while she was out at lunch. Armed burglars disguised as air conditioning repairmen broke into her apartment in the Imperial House building on the Upper East Side, bound the cook in a guest closet and opened a floor safe hidden inside another … [Read more...] about Emily Fisher Landau, Art Patron Who Had Her Own Museum, Dies at 102

PARIS — In 2001, when Daniel Wildenstein lapsed into a coma here just days before his death at 84 , French authorities say, his two sons and a team of financial advisers began quickly reshuffling the holdings of this wealthy patriarch who had led one of the greatest art dealing-dynasties of the 20th century. Almost $250 million worth of art was shipped from family vaults in New York to tax havens in Switzerland, the French government’s criminal investigators say in a report; even the ownership of his prized thoroughbred horses was abruptly transferred to a newly formed family company while he lingered unconscious in a hospital bed. The secret effort was part of a gigantic undertaking, the French authorities say, to avoid an estate tax bill in France and potentially in the United States. The French government has calculated that the estate could owe, with fines and interest, at least 550 million euros, or roughly $600 million, in France alone. Next month, several family members … [Read more...] about Wildenstein Trial to Lift a Veil on Opaque Art World Dealings

0 Arts & Entertainment Your guide to movies with a theatrical release on December 11, 2015. Patch Staff , Patch Staff Posted Reply – By Beau Behan, Film Critic Are you planning on going to the movies this weekend? Here are this week’s new releases. “Macbeth” “Carol” “In the Heart of the Sea” “Legend” “Spotlight” “The Big Short” “The Danish Girl” “Youth” And here’s what they’re all about. “ Macbeth ” (Limited, Dec. 11) WATCH the above movie review and find out why Fassbender’s Macbeth is a vision of breathtaking poetry. Click here to see if “Macbeth” is playing at a theater near you. Unrated, 113 min, Drama, War Director: Justin Kurzel Writers: Jacob Koskoff, Michael Lesslie Stars: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jack Madigan Over the years, “Macbeth,” Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, has … [Read more...] about Coming to Theaters Near You: ‘In the Heart of the Sea,’ ‘The Big Short,’ and More