A pair of vases looted from Greece went on sale at Frieze earlier this month, with authorities allowing the sale to take place as legal.  “The people involved in the transaction are all known to have previously been involved in other antiquities cases,” says Dr. Christos Tsirogiannis, a lecturer at the Association for Research into Crimes against Art (Arca) and the American Center for Archaeology at Mycenae. “It’s the usual pattern that I have identified in trafficking of antiquities internationally several times during my career.”
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Artist Mary Kelly is profiled in the New York Times in a piece exploring her latest works running her pieces through her dryer. “I hope this exhibition doesn’t seem too eccentric and people see it has some relevance to the current moment,” she says.
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Painter Laura Owens is the subject of a spotlight this week in the New Yorker, as she prepares a body of new work for a show at the Whitney this fall.  “I don’t believe there’s such a thing as innate talent,” she says. “It’s about desires and passions that lead to a focus on certain things and seeing the world in a certain way.”
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