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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: Litigation, Internal Revenue Service, Manhattan (New York City), Laws, Jackson Pollock
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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: Litigation, Internal Revenue Service, Manhattan (New York City), Laws, Jackson Pollock
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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: Arts and Culture, Fine Artists, Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Auction Service, Christie's International Plc
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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: Taylor Kitsch, Ryan Murphy, Jim Parsons, AIDS, Jonathan Groff
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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: Arts and Culture, London Theatre, Theater, Twitter, Inc., Ai Weiwei
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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: Arts and Culture, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment Events, Hearing Impairment, Awards and Prizes
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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: Arts and Culture, Denis O'Hare, Entertainment Events, Tony Awards, Joe Berlinger
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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: Painting, Arts and Culture, Fine Artists, Manhattan (New York City), Museums
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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...
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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: FIFA World Cup, Soccer, Sports, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Baseball
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At the Goodman Theatre, a taut canvas streaked with 'Red'
Of all the sacred monsters of the art world, surely none was as discomfited by a flat, still canvas as Mark Rothko. If you were to distill this formidable abstract-expressionist painter down to two words — folly, I know — you could do worse...Tags: Arts and Culture, Goodman Theatre, Human Interest, Eddie Redmayne
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New museums to marvel over in Amsterdam, Rome and Paris
Special to the Los Angeles TimesIn a wide-ranging trip to Europe this year, I found three major new museums to love: in Amsterdam, the first satellite branch of Russia's celebrated Hermitage; in Rome, a long-awaited museum for contemporary arts that is a work of art itself; and in...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Christian Orthodoxy, Restaurants, Colonial Williamsburg, Trips and Vacations
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