The First Art Newspaper on the Net
by Jean-Louis De La Vaissiere
PARIS
(AFP)
.- A French journalist s investigation into the alleged forgery network around art collector Giuliano Ruffini has also criticised the great negligence of art world experts. The doubts first became public when French police seized a painting owned by the prince of Liechtenstein from an exhibition in Aix-en-Provence in 2016. The prince had paid seven million euros at auction for the portrait of the goddess Venus by 16th century Italian painter Lucas Cranach, yet tests would soon reveal that the pigments used in the painting dated from the 20th century. Ruffini was well-known in the art world. Since the 1990s, he had sold dozens even hundreds of paintings by such luminaries as Parmigianino and El Greco to some of the great museums of Europe, including the Louvre, often through intermediaries. Many, he said, had come from the collection of an ex-girlfriend s father, Andre Borie, a civil engineer
Jan 14, 2021
In August, chef Dan Barber announced plans to step down from his kitchen duties and pivot his Grand Award–winning Blue Hill at Stone Barns into a chef-in-residence concept. That came to fruition this week, with Jan. 13 marking the start of the first season of chef residencies at the farm and restaurant in Pocantico Hills, N.Y.
For five weeks, each chef will lead the kitchen and offer their spin on regional cuisines using produce from Stone Barns Center and other surrounding farms. “Each of these chefs will explore the intersection of cooking and farming but also culture, identity, community and health,” Barber wrote in a statement. “A vision for food that is both physical and philosophical, and so much greater than the sum of its parts.”
How Art Lovers Weathered the Coronavirus Pandemic in 2020
With galleries and museums closed due to Covid-19, online offerings blossomed giving viewers the chance to experience outstanding exhibitions and masterpieces in a new, digital way.
A visitor wearing her face mask looks at the Degas sculpture ‘Little Dancer Aged Fourteen’ at the National Gallery of Art in July Photo: kevin lamarque/Reuters By Karen Wilkin Dec. 13, 2020 12:00 pm ET
The last “normal” art-world event I attended, on March 12, was the opening of Kyle Staver’s exhibition at Zurcher Gallery, in downtown New York. The usual crowd gathered to savor Ms. Staver’s idiosyncratic updates on history painting a waterborne Ophelia; Susanna in a hammock, flanked by tigers; the enigmatic Venus and the Octopus and admire her exuberant conceptions, sinuous figures, and brooding color. The only sign of anything out of the ordinary was the absence of embrac