ART Museums and galleries are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of recent art shows: nytimes.com/art. В‘JOEL SHAPIRO: NEW SCULPTUREВ’ Joel ShapiroВ’s latest show is exquisite: a focused, perfect arrangement of just under a dozen sculptures filling Pace Wildenstein in Chelsea. This may well be the artistВ’s best effort in years. The work may look old-fashioned to some, with its attention to relationships between abstraction and representation, its choice of weighty materials (wood and bronze) and its heroic scale. The pieces may even be reminiscent of David SmithВ’s, specificall
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When he walked into the Atlantic Ocean off Rockaway Beach in Queens, despondent over the suicide of his companion a week earlier, Mr. Blake was just three months away from an exhibition of his recent video art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington and another show at the Manhattan gallery Kinz, Tillou & Feigen. Many wondered what would become of his unfinished work and whether it would shed any light on his life, and his death at 35. His work in progress, В“Glitterbest,В” is a video portrait of the 1970s punk-music impresario Malcolm McLaren, with whom he collaborated on the piece. Ha
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The unanimous decision by the three-member appeals court came eight months after the Getty formally handed over the disputed funerary wreath and a week after Ms. TrueВ’s lawyer filed a motion for dismissal. In his motion the lawyer, Yannis Yannides, cited a California state law that sets a three-year statute of limitations for prosecutions once the whereabouts of a stolen artifact have been established. (The Getty bought the wreath in 1993 for $1.15 million.)In dismissing the charges, the appeals court appeared to accept his argument that Greek law requires its courts to defer to the st
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