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US Attorney announcing charges via Chicago Sun-Times

Buyers of ‘limited edition’ signed fine art prints take note– the Feds have indicted an international ring of several dealers making, forging signatures, and selling fake prints by Chagall, Picasso, Calder, Warhol and other big name artists. Utilizing Ebay, galleries and art fairs to sell the works, the fakes were made by reproducing from original artworks and by creating prints in the ‘style’ of a particular artist.

Official FBI Press Release[FBI]
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7 dealers from US and Europe indicted [Chicago Tribune]
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Same dealer was imprisoned for fraud in the 90s [Chicago Sun-Times]

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Rosy Keyser via Peter Blum Gallery

From February 28 until April 19, Peter Blum gallery presents the exhibition of Rosy Keyser’s “Rivers Burn and Run Backward.” This is Rosy Keyser’s first solo exhibition in New York.

Rosy Keyser Review [New York Sun]
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Rosy Keyser at Peter Blum Gallery [Artnet]
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Peter Blum gallery [Peter Blum website]
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The Apotheosis of King James I via the Times U.K

Tate seeking £6 million to keep “country’s most significant” Rubens[Times UK]
Monet, Rodin, 30 other works stolen from ‘priceless’ French collection [Bloomberg]
As Indian art gains value, is it a good time buy? [NY Sun]
Chanel commissions Sophie Calle, others for bag inspired installation [The Age Australia]
Fake Picasso prints sold over eBay, arrests made in the U.S. [New York Post]
Update: Is the Whitney Biennial too smart for its own good? [NYMag]
Sischy, Brant formerly of Brant Publications (Art in America), are new editors of European Vanity Fair [Mediaweek]

“Terminal Stage” via Artnet

Since March 13, at the lobby of the Lever House on Park Avenue in New York, Richard Dupont has set nine naked figures as the latest installation piece in Aby Rosen’s iconic office tower.

Richard Dupont’s exhibition [artnet]
video [coolhunting]
Terminal Stage at the Lever House [New York Sun]
Richard Dupont’s new exhibition [Artnet]

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Salle de conférence du Sénat via Yvon Lambert

Yvon Lambert gallery in Paris is presenting works by the German photographer Candida Höfer from March 8 through April 5. The show is entitled “Paris Serie” and features a large variety of indoor pictures of well known monuments such as the “Sorbonne” library, the “Théâtre de Marie Antoinette” in Versailles, the “Salle de Chasse” in Fontainebleau, the “Salle Pleyel” concert hall in Paris.

Candida Höfer’s exhibition [Yvon Lambert Gallery]
Candida Höfer’s works at Yvon Lambert [Artnet]
“Paris Serie” [re-title]

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The Lotus Eaters, 2005 via Zwirner

Marcel Dzama is a young Canadian- born artist best known for his intricate pen and watercolor works on paper, featuring fantastical characters. For this solo show at David Zwirner, Dzama is showing drawings, as well as five 3-D dioramas, a film, and a special sculptural installation that pays homage to Marcel Duchamp.

Even the Ghost of the Past [Zwirner]
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Marcel Dzama’s current picks for art to see in NYC [Artinfo]
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Profile of Marcel Dzama [New York Times]

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Maison Tropical via The New York Times

Jean Prouvé’s Maison Tropicale to Art Basel Miami [The Art Newspaper]
Met buys Delacroix in honor of retiring director Montebello [New York Times]
LACMA spends $12 million on more land [Los Angeles Times via ArtForum]
81 artists are selected for international Biennial in New Orleans [ArtForum]
Capital’s influence on Chinese contemporary art [GuardianUK via c-monster]
Rome’s growing contemporary art scene [New York Times]

Mary Heilmann “Yellow Wave” and John Waters Courtesy via The Armory Show

From March 27 through March 30, Pier 94 will host the Armory show in New York. While there will certainly be sales made, the Armory show will expand its offerings to panel of discussions, tours of the Whitney Biennial, visits to New York collectors’ homes, and cocktail parties, and other events throughout the city.

The Armory show [New York Sun]
Official Website of the Armory show [Armory Show]

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Leonard A. Lauder via the New York Times

Leonard A. Lauder the executive of Estée Lauder and the chairman of the Whitney Museum of American Art committed $131 million to the Whitney Museum of American Art: it is the biggest donation that the 77-year old museum has ever received. The major part of the gift will be to the art museum endowment

$131M gift to the Whitney Museum [AP]
Leonard Lauder’s donation to the Whitney [The New York Times]

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“No Title (On That Hard)” via CFA

Contemporary Fine Arts gallery in Berlin is hosting Raymond Pettibon’s exhibition “No Title” from March 15 until April 26. This is his sixth solo exhibition at CFA Berlin, it features 50 new drawings and one painting.

“No Title, 2008” [Contemporary Fine Arts]
Raymond Pettibon [Artnet]
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The work for sale via Guardian Uk

Back in the 1990’s– after his now-famous Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, (aka the shark), was first shown at the Saatchi gallery in London, but before he won the prestigious Turner Prize – Damien Hirst gave a fish in formaldehyde to the owner of a fish-n-chips shop in Leeds as a gift. Bonhams has just announced they’ll offer the work this Fall for an expected £100,000- 150,000.

Hirst’s takeaway fish [Telegraph UK]
Hirst gift to sell for up to £150,000 [Guardian UK]
About Damien Hirst [White Cube]

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Rare 10th Century Bronze vessel for sale at Sotheby’s via The Economist

Rare Chinese bronze vessels dating back to the Western Zhou dynasty, belonging to an Asian collector, were expected to sell for record prices at Sotheby’s today, but were left unsold along with other high priced Chinese antiquities. However there was some positive news yesterday at the contemporary sale, where Chinese painter Zeng Fahnzi’s Mask Series No.11 (Triptych) sold for $1.05 million. There are still several days of sales and other events as Asian Week in New York continues.

Asian Contemporary Art Week [ACAW]
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International Asian Art Fair [Haughton]
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Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Asia [Sotheby’s]
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Christie’s Asian Art Week [Christie’s]
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East comes to NYC [Financial Times UK]
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Had good art becomes scarce at Asian Art Show? [New York Times]
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A bidding frenzy over Chinese art [Economist]
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Huge market for Chinese painters in New York [New York Sun]
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How Asian art has risen from obscurity [New York Times]
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Sotheby’s finds no takers [Economist]
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Sotheby’s contemporary sale results [Economist]

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Warhol’s portraits installed via c-monster

This weekend the Jewish Museum in New York will open Warhol’s Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered. When Warhol completed the series in 1980 — which he referred to as his “Jewish Geniuses”- it raised many eyebrows. This exhibit considers not only how and why Warhol made the works, but how the broad cultural concept of “Jewishness” has evolved in the past 25+ years.

Warhol’s Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered [Jewish Museum]
Andy Warhol Biography [warholfoundation.org]
Remounting a Controversy [New York Sun]
Reaction then and now [c-monster]
Jewish for Fifteen Minutes [New York Post]

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The New Museum via Gawker

New Museum’s first tag [via Gawker]
Rembrandt up for $49 million, reportedly less than 1/2 estimated value [New York Post]
Richard Dupont’s sculpture exhibition at the Lever House [The New York Sun]
NY Debut of Italian art publication FMR aka “most beautiful magazine in the world” [New York Sun]

Georg Baselitz via Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is hosting Georg Baselitz’s exhibition ‘Remix’ from February 20, to March 29. Georg Baselitz was born in 1938 in Deutschbaselitz, Saxony. His work has been marked by a reaction to human trauma and tragedy, particularly in regard to German history. Baselitz was also influenced by “Art Brut,” the writings and drawings of Antonin Artaud, and African sculpture.

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac [Thaddaeus Ropac]

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Melissa Bent and Mirabelle Marden via Style.com

Interview with Melissa Bent, Mirabelle Marden, founders of Rivington Arms [Style.com]
Former Guggenheim director Krens looking for other New York projects[Bloomberg]
Emmanuel Perrotin’s review “La Louvre – Paris” exhibition by Gelitin [The Moment]
Ralph Rugoff’s blunt critique of Damien Hirst’s “decorative” £50m skull [The Independent]
Hirst work sells for 500 times €380 paid for it last year [The Independent]
A Rare Richard Prince Interview [Dejour Magazine via Raw art weblog]

Mark Rothko via Kunsthalle München

Mark Rothko, the influential American painter known for his large abstract paintings consisting of blocks of color, currently has a retrospective at the Kunsthalle in Munich. The exhibition at offers an extensive look at the entire oeuvre of the Russian-born artist, with over 100 paintings and drawings on view.

Exhibition Information[Kunsthalle]
Mark Rothko biography [National Gallery]

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Baldessari installation at Pepe Cobo via artnews.org

Galería Pepe Cobo in Madrid is currently showing recent work from the series Arms & Legs (Specif. Elbows & Knees), etc., Part II by American artist John Baldessari. The exhibit is a group of over-painted photographic prints to which three-dimensional collage elements are added, featuring detached human body parts in cool primary colors.

Official Website [baldessari.org]
Exhibition information [Pepe Cobo]

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Willem de Kooning, ‘Untitled XV’ 1986 via bloomberg

The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), in Maastricht, South Netherlands, started off its festivities with a twist on Thursday, March 6th. The fair, which has been an annual event for over 30 years, was robbed at its VIP reception, which attracted 10,000 major collectors, before even opening to the public this year.

Collectors Forum [Hamilton FitzJames]
Million dollar diamond necklace stolen during Dutch art fair [Europe World News]
Maastricht Art Fair, Pollock sells for $8 Million [The New York Times]
TEFAF: Antiquities, Old Masters and Furniture sell [Telegraph]
Willem de Kooning’s painting sells for 5 million [Bloomberg]
Maastricht Fair Offers $1 Billion of Artworks to Collectors [Bloomberg]
TEFAF Sales Rise [ARTINFO]
Fair opens with a twist [ARTINFO]
Deutsche Bank sponsors 30 year old tradition in 2008 [Bloomberg]
TEFAF Roundup [Bloomberg]
Major collectors, dealers and artists [Wall Street Journal]

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The CaxiaForum [BigFishJavi]

A striking addition to its already thriving art scene, a new contemporary art museum designed by superstar Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron has opened in Madrid. The CaxiaForum is located in the heart of the cultural district, very near the Prado, Reina Sofia and Thyssen-Bornemisza musuems.

Madrid museum opens as an ‘urban magnet’ [artnewspaper]
–>CaxiaForum Madrid [Official website]

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Firmament at White Cube via antonygormley.com

Antony Gormley’s solo exhibition at White Cube Mason’s Yard is comprised of two installations, “Firmament” a sculpture made of 1,770 steel rods welded together in a giant structure depicting the human form, and “Lost Horizon,” 32 life-sized solid iron copies of Gormley’s body adorning the floor, walls and ceiling of one room in the gallery.

Antony Gormley: Firmament [White Cube]
Official website [antonygormley.com]
Guardian interview [Guardian UK]

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Rembrandt self-portrait via the New York Times

Last for sale Rembrandt self-portrait is at Maastricht Art Fair [NY Times]
Update: Review of Jeff Wall at the Marian Goodman Gallery [NY Sun]
Warhol, Emin to have solo exhibitions at Hayward Gallery, London [Bloomberg]
Chris Burden, next public art piece at Rockefeller Center [artinfo]
“Biba,” at Coningsby Gallery, London: Kate Moss buys, notables attend [The Moment]

Richard Prince Video Interview via VBS TV (Click for link)

VBS Tv’s series Art Talk, has a four part session with Richard Prince detailing his studio located in Rensselaerville, NY. The videos show Prince’s personal collection, local inspirations, and studio/hunting lodge. Additionally he opines on his methodology, what makes art successful or unsuccessful, and the public’s opinion of art in general.

Art Talk (VBS TV)

Christopher Williams “Linhof Technika V fabricated in Munich, Germany. Salon Studio Stand fabricated in Florence, Italy. Dual cable release. Prontor shutter. Symars lens 150mmm/f 5.6 Schneider kreuznach. Sinar fresnel lens placed with black tape on the ground glass. (Yellow) Dirk Sharper Studio, Berlin, June 19, 2007, 2008 C-Print Framed: 33 3/4 x 29 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches 85.7 x 74.3 x 3.8 cm Matte Window: 17 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches 44.5 x 34.9 cm Print: 20 x 16 inches 50.8 x 40.6 cm” Courtesy David Zwirner, New York

Christopher Williams’ solo exhibition, “For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 7),” is currently on view at David Zwirner Gallery. The artist makes a concerted effort to remove himself from all actions that usual define a photographers relationship to his subject.
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