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A provided image shows an artwork connected to a scheme of selling false Keith Haring paintings. According to a criminal complaint, employees at New York auction houses were approached about the art. A man was taken into custody and charged with wire fraud. Department of Justice via The New York Times.
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.- Angel Pereda, 49, of Mexico, was taken into custody in New York and charged with wire fraud after prosecutors accused him of trying to sell artworks that he falsely claimed had been created by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced on Friday. Prosecutors said that on at least one occasion, Pereda created and sent new fake provenances to an intermediary in New York claiming that a painting was by Basquiat, in the hopes that it could be sold for millions of dollars. Basquiats 1982 work Untitled sold for $110.5 million at auction in 2017. Willia
Pilar Corrias opens two exhibitions of new work by Tala Madani
Tala Madani, Splitter, 2021. Oil on linen, 43.2 x 71.1 x 2.5 cm. 17 x 28 x 1 in. Courtesy of the artist and Pilar Corrias, London.
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.-Pilar Corrias opened two exhibitions of new work by Tala Madani. Skid Mark is at the gallerys Eastcastle Street location, 4 June 10 July 2021, whilst Chalk Mark inaugurates the gallerys new location at 2 Savile Row, opening 8 July and running until 8 September 2021. The exhibitions include painting and animation, and together constitute the artists first UK solo presentation in five years.
Chalk Mark brings together new works exploring education and instruction. Where Skid Mark focuses on the interior world, Chalk Mark takes on the exterior, examining the ways in which children are controlled and cultured by their schooling.