A 13-year-old forgery ring busted in France, a ten-year restitution debate resolved, and the 400-year-old mystery of the Medicis’ death solved. This week in art news: It’s about time.
1. Brits Fight for Arts Funding
British art-world heavyweights have begun a letter-writing campaign to the government protesting proposed budget cuts Read More
About the art of Marc Chagall, which is currently the
subject of an important exhibition at the Jewish Museum, almost every reader of
this column is likely to have an opinion. Chagall was not only famous in his
time but remains popular today. His work is now as familiar to us as that of
Picasso Read More
For people of a certain age-mine, for example-the late Aristodimos Kaldis (1899-1979) is fondly remembered as a familiar figure on the New York art scene. In every respect but his painting, which was unmistakably modern in a 20th-century American idiom, Kaldis resembled a character out of a 19th-century opera-a Falstaff, perhaps, but with a Greek Read More
