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NY art dealer tied to alleged forgeries charged with tax fraud
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged a New York art dealer with tax fraud in connection with the sale of paintings she claimed to be the works of celebrated abstract expressionists, but some of which the government said were fakes....Tags: Trials, FBI, Defendants, Jackson Pollock, Banking
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NY art dealer tied to forgeries charged with tax fraud
Reuters* Art dealer charged with hiding income from art sales * Prosecutors say many works that were sold were forged * Dealer said to sell works by de Kooning, Pollock, Rothko By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK, May 21 (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors on Tuesday...Tags: Trials, FBI, Defendants, Jackson Pollock, Arts and Culture
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Christie's contemporary sale is biggest auction in history
ReutersBy Chris Michaud NEW YORK, May 16 (Reuters) - The spring auctions ended on a record-shattering high on Wednesday as Christie's contemporary art sale achieved the highest total - $495 million - in the history of art auctions. Artists' records fell one...Tags: Fine Artists, Christie's International Plc, Auction Service, Arts and Culture, Artists
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Jonathan Groff to star in Ryan Murphy's 'The Normal Heart' film
Stage and screen star Jonathan Groff has joined the cast of Ryan Murphy's "The Normal Heart," an HBO film about the early days of the AIDS epidemic in New York City. Groff, who recently appeared in the Mark Taper Forum's production of "Red," will play...
Tags: Ryan Murphy, Jonathan Groff, Taylor Kitsch, Zachary Quinto, Jim Parsons
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Ai Weiwei stage play gets favorable reviews in London
There have been a number of stage plays devoted to the lives of visual artists -- Georges Seurat, Pablo Picasso and Mark Rothko have all received the grand theatrical treatment. But Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is unlike the others in that he is a bonafide...Tags: Entertainment, Ai Weiwei, Muhammad Ali, Twitter, Inc., Arts and Culture
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Everyman announces first full season at new home
It might be hard to duplicate the anticipation and publicity that greeted the inaugural season in Everyman Theatre's inviting new home on West Fayette Street, but that hasn't stopped the company from trying. "I want next season to be even more...
Tags: Hearing Impairment, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Tony Awards, Everyman Theatre, Red (movie, 2010)
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Gripping return to the Lindbergh kidnapping
So many 20th-century murders were dubbed "The Crime of the Century" that erstwhile Chicago playwright-turned-Academy-Award-nominated screenwriter John Logan could have made a career from that carnival of mayhem alone — perhaps as a decade-by-decade,...
Tags: Skyfall (movie), Tony Awards, Denis O'Hare, Arts and Culture, O.J. Simpson
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Baltimore Museum of Art mounts exhibit of 20th-century avant-garde painter Max Weber
Baltimore helped the avant-garde painter Max Weber forge a national reputation in 1915. Now, nearly 100 years later, this could be the city where the late artist begins his long-overdue comeback. It's not that critics and curators are unfamiliar with...
Tags: Fine Artists, Arts, Painting, Jackson Pollock, Arts and Culture
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Drawn and Quarteted: Artists Find a 'Landing Place' in T.S. Eliot's Poetry
When T.S. Eliot was completing his cycle of poems called The Four Quartets in 1942, German bombs were falling near where he worked in London. Given the setting and his own often inscrutable intellectualism, this work — six years in the making...
Tags: Poetry, Music, Prospect, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), David Carradine
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City Lights: There's more to the soccer ball than meets the eye
When I was a graduate student in England, I once attended a soccer game — or football, as they call it most everywhere but here. I didn't get much out of it. It seemed awfully simple: two teams kicking the ball back and forth for two hours, and...
Tags: Baseball, Sports, Soccer, FIFA World Cup, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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Warhol 'Double Elvis' goes for $37 million
CNNThe Andy Warhol classic painting "Double Elvis (Ferus Type)" sold Wednesday at Sotheby's in New York for more than $37 million, the auction house said. With commission, the sale price of $33 million totaled $37,042,500, short of the $50 million that...Tags: Roy Lichtenstein, Human Accomplishments, Edvard Munch, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Arts and Culture
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Mark Rothko painting sells for $87 million at auction
An oil painting by Mark Rothko sold for $86.9 million at a Christie's auction in New York on Tuesday, setting a record for the abstract expressionist painter. Rothko's "Orange, Red, Yellow," which dates from 1961, was being sold by the estate of David...
Tags: Arts, Alexander Calder, Painting, Gerhard Richter, Edvard Munch
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