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Luxury goods are big business in Dubai, European Old Master paintings less so. But it is a combination of both that could be key to finding a buyer for a portrait by Peter Paul Rubens being unveiled in the city next week-the first Old Master ever exhibited by Sotheby's in the Middle East.

Portrait of a Bearded Venetian Nobleman, Bust Length (1620s), which was almost certainly kept in the artist's collection until his death in 1640, will lead Sotheby's Old Master sale in London in July. The work, which is being sold by the descendants of the Dutch collector Hans Wetzlar and has been guaranteed by a third party, is expected to fetch £3m.

George Gordon, the co-chairman of Old Master paintings and drawings for Sotheby's, says Jeff Koons's handbags for Louis Vuitton, which feature Old Master paintings by artists including Rubens, Titian and Fragonard, could help attract a different sort of buyer for the "viscerally and vigorously" painted canvas of an unknown sitter.

"The bags will certainly have an effect on the art buying public; they certainly had an effect on me when I saw them displayed in a Louis Vuitton store in New York," Gordon says. "They can't but broaden the market for Old Masters and specifically for Rubens."

An appetite for Old Masters has been growing in the gulf region for the past few years. Between 2014 and 2017, sales grew by 43%, Gordon says. The Louvre Abu Dhabi's purchase of Leonardo Da Vinci's Salvator Mundi for $450.3m in November, has also "opened up the Old Master market-to a degree", Gordon says.

Meanwhile, in London in April, Sotheby's is selling a rare painting by the Iranian Modern master Bahman Mohasses, The Minotaur Scares the Good People (1966). The work, which has been tucked away in a private collection since the 1970s, carries an estimate of £280,000-£350,000.

Perhaps surprisingly, given its depiction of nude figures, the painting is being unveiled at Sotheby's Dubai galleries on 20 March (until 24 March). However, Ashkan Baghestani, Sotheby's contemporary Arab and Iranian art specialist, describes the Surrealist figures as "anthropomorphic", rather than strictly lifelike.

"They bring together Mohasses's fascination with Greek mythology, and his own personal disenchantment with the world around him. The looming standing figure is half-man half-beast, painted without hands or feet to get across a sense of hopelessness."

Baghestani says that much later in his career, Mohasses gave the minotaur seemingly erotic overtones, "yet here we see a nuanced figure who is feared by the masses but appears anguished at the same time".

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Sotheby's unveils Old Master painting in the Middle East for first time

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Luxury goods are big business in Dubai, European Old Master paintings less so. But it is a combination of both that could be key to finding a buyer for a portrait by Peter Paul Rubens being unveiled in the city next week-the first Old Master ever exhibited by Sotheby's in the Middle East.

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this german man is found guilty in his trial about lying and selling some expensive art work to a buy but the art was fake and the man was convicted

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Convictions as German case against dealers in Russian avant-garde art comes to an end

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Itzhak Zarug and his business partner Moez Ben Hazaz found guilty of fabricating provenance of three works

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cheech talking about teaming up with riverside to help get out there in the spotlight one of his loves chicano art thats he been collecting since the 80's

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cheech talking about teaming up with riverside to help get out there in the spotlight one of his loves chicano art thats he been collecting since the 80's

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Actor and comedian Cheech Marin, who for decades has been a noted collector of Chicano art, is teaming up with the city of Riverside and the Riverside Art Museum to create a Chicano art center.

The proposed museum, tentatively titled the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture and Industry, would be housed in a roughly 60,000-square-foot building now occupied by the main branch of the Riverside Public Library, which will be moving to a new structure a few blocks away.

"It'll be the one place worldwide that everybody can go to for all things Chicano art," says Marin. "And it will not just be display, but it will have an academic feature so Chicano art can be seen and can be studied. There are five universities in the area."

It'll be the one place worldwide that everybody can go to for all things Chicano art.

Once the agreements are ironed out, the City Council will vote again to finalize the deal.

"It's a great re-use for the building in the middle of a cultural center," says John Russo, city manager, who notes that the Chicano art center would bolster the city's downtown cultural district, which includes the RAM, the California Museum of Photography (operated by UC Riverside) and the Riverside Metropolitan Museum, which organizes historic and anthropological exhibitions.

"It was this idea that the museums and the cultural institutions hadn't been effectively serving a vast majority of our community," Oberjuerge says. "Like most museums, our board and our staff don't reflect the diversity of the region. This was a realistic look at own own sustainability."

Russo says it will be a concept that appeals to a wider audience too. "I'm the child of parents who were immigrants," he says, noting his family's Italian heritage. "This experience of being bicultural, of how cultures intertwine, of what its means to be an American - that is something that rings true."

Attendance for the exhibition's opening night drew a record 1,476 attendees, and admission revenue at the museum tripled in the first month.

"For people to see this here, to not have to drive to L.A. or Palm Springs," says Oberjuerge, "it was really important."

Russo, who had attended some of the programming related to the exhibition, says he was impressed with the enthusiasm he saw - which got him thinking about the library's midcentury modern building. Plans for a children's science museum on the site were scrapped earlier this year when the Discovery Science Foundation, which operates spaces in Orange County and Los Angeles, withdrew. Once the library moved (in roughly three years), the building would likely sit empty.

"Riverside is a cool place," he says. "That the city would want to back this, that's a big deal. They want to use this as a big draw for their city."

Moreover, he is also interested in the proximity to universities such as UC Riverside and Cal State San Bernardino, to the north, both of which have Chicano studies programs.

"There will be a strong educational component," says Oberjuerge, who adds that education is an important part of RAM's core mission. "We really want people, whether it's collectors or scholars, to really think of the center as this thriving space where there is research, where there are connections between emerging and established artists. We're looking at an artist residency program, a scholar-in-residence program - these are all things we are interested in."

If the City Council approves the memorandum of understanding, the museum and the city can move forward on developing a formal managerial and curatorial plan and begin raising $3 million toward renovations. (Construction will likely cost more, Russo says, but the team wants to get ahead on the fundraising for construction, which will be paid for with private funds.)

"Our board is really excited about this," says Oberjuerge. "They know that there is a lot of work that has to be done in the next nine months in terms of working with Cheech and working on developing a capital campaign to fund it, but they are ready to take it on."

And though the institution already has a tentative name, Marin says he's already come up with a nickname of his own.

"The intimates call it 'The Cheech,'" he jokes. "I'll meet you at 3 o'clock at the Cheech!"

'Papel Chicano Dos: Works on Paper'

From the collection of Cheech Marin

Where: Riverside Art Museum, 3425 Mission Inn Ave., Riverside.

When: Tuesdays through Saturdays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sundays noon to 4 p.m. through May 7.

Admission: $5; students and seniors, $3, members, military and children under 12, free.

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Cheech Marin teams up with city of Riverside and Riverside Art Museum to develop Chicano art center

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Actor and comedian Cheech Marin, who for decades has been a noted collector of Chicano art, is teaming up with the city of Riverside and the Riverside Art Museum to create a Chicano art center.

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Exhibition: February 2 - May 7, 2017

Opening Reception: Thursday, February 2, 2017, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Papel Chicano Dos: Works on Paper, from the collection of Cheech Marin, presents 65 artworks by 24 established and early-career artists whose work demonstrates a myriad of techniques from watercolor and aquatint to pastel and mixed media.

Featured artists are Carlos Almaraz, Charles "Chaz" Bojórquez, Pablo Andres Cristi, Carlos Donjuán, Gaspar Enríquez, Sonya Fe, Emmanuel Galvez, Margaret García, Roberto Gil de Montes, CiCi Segura González, Raúl Guerrero, Roberto Gutiérrez, Adán Hernández, Benito Huerta, Leo Limón, Gilbert "Magu" Luján, Cesar A. Martínez, Glugio "Gronk" Nicondra, Wenceslao Quiroz, Frank Romero, Sonia Romero, Ricardo Ruiz, John Valadez, and Vincent Valdez.

Dating from the late 1980s to present day, works in Papel Chicano Dos offer iconic imagery with influences ranging from pre-Hispanic symbols and post-revolutionary nationalistic Mexican motifs to the Chicano movement of the 1960s and contemporary urban culture.

The visual arts were integral to the Chicano movement and continues to be a powerful tool for Mexican-American and Chicano communities to voice the issues that affect them today.

These pieces evince a special focus on activism--highlighting how Chicano artists provide access to the arts by creating posters, flyers, printed statements, and newsletters with elaborate aesthetic compositions and designs.

By the late 1970s and early 1980s, Chicano artists were creating iconic images that transcended their activist function and defined the iconography of a movement.

Stay tuned! We will announce an opportunity to meet Cheech Marin in person at the Riverside Art Museum at a later date.

Come meet Cheech Marin at the Opening Reception! He will also be available to sign the exhibit catalog.
The exhibit catalog will be available in our Blue Door Museum Store for $25. Excerpt from CheechMarin.com/bio Primarily known as an actor, director, and performer, Cheech Marin has developed the finest private collection of Chicano art in the United States. He states, "Chicano art is American art. My goal is to bring the term 'Chicano' to the forefront of the art world." A third‐generation Mexican American, Cheech has received numerous awards for his work on behalf of Latinos, including the 2000 Creative Achievement Award from the Imagen Foundation and the 1999 ALMA Community Service Award from the National Council of La Raza and Kraft Foods. In 2007, he received an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts for his contributions to the creative arts from Otis College of Art & Design in Los Angeles, and received the inaugural Legacy Award for Arts Advocacy from the Smithsonian Latino Center. He serves on the boards of the Smithsonian Latino Center and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund.
"Look Who's Talking" lecture series | Cheech Marin

Wednesday, March 29, 2017, 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Premier: $50 ($40 RAM Members) | General: $20

The Riverside Art Museum (RAM) proudly presents "Look Who's Talking" | Cheech Marin, on Wednesday, March 29, 2017, from 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. Cheech Marin is back in Riverside to talk about his new memoir, Cheech Is Not My Real Name: ...But Don't Call Me Chong. This ticketed "Look Who's Talking" fundraising event and book signing is moderated by Susan Straight, novelist, National Book Award finalist andDistinguished Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California Riverside.
Click here for more info and to purchase tickets!
Art Education

We have a Saturday Art Workshop for kids ages 6 and up on February 18 called Story Collage, which will feature a tour of Papel Chicano Dos. Students will then explore the influence of family, food, and culture in their lives as they create a collage to represent their stories using newspapers, magazines, paints, oil pastels, and more. Sign up at http://www.riversideartmuseum.org/education/youth/saturday-classes/saturday-art-workshops/ . Scholarships to take this class may be requested by emailing RAM's Art Education Director Caryn Marsella at cmarsella@riversideartmuseum.org.
This exhibition is generously sponsored by: .

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Although Cheech Marin found his way to stardom as one half of the marijuana-loving duo Cheech and Chong, the actor and comedian always found time to appreciate art.

Before hitting it big with roles in movies, television and voiceover work, Marin would take trips to the library to quench his thirst for art in many forms.

"I would check out books and study various types of art," Marin said in a recent telephone interview.

He said he eventually acquired a few Art Nouveau and Art Deco pieces and in 1985 purchased three Chicano art works that were the seeds of what has become a vast collection.

After bringing those first pieces home, Marin said he began to exclusively collect Chicano art. Over the years the body of works has reached about 700.

Much of the original Chicano art began as protest signs, flyers and posters calling out inequality and addressing civil rights and other issues that were important to the Hispanic culture.

"Chicano art is an American school of art that is an essential component of American art," Marin said.

Some of his collection will be on display at the Riverside Art Museum, beginning Thursday in the "Papel Chicano Dos: Works on Paper, from the Collection of Cheech Marin" exhibition. There will be a reception on Thursday evening and the show will continue through May 7.

The collection was first shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, with Riverside being its second stop.

Marin said he has a clear mission of helping people experience Chicano art in person.

"My mantra is you cannot love or hate Chicano art unless you see it in person," said Marin. "People are very surprised when they come and see the show."

Prominent Chicano artists Diane Gamboa, Leo Limón and Glugio "Gronk" Nicondrahave pieces in the upcoming show as well as in the museum's permanent collection, Todd Wingate, Riverside Art Musuem's curator of exhibitions and collections said.

Wingate said works in the exhibition range from the late '80s through now and includes 65 pieces featuring watercolor, acrylic, aquatint, mixed media and pastels.

A watercolor painting by Wenceslao Quiroz depicts an older Ford pick-up truck stacked with wooden pallets driving towards a bridge is one of Marin's favorites.

"Every artist focuses on some part of the culture," Marin said. "And together the exhibition gives people a description of the community told through the works."

As for what Marin sees on the Chicano art horizon now that President Donald Trump has started his term in office, he said artists are starting to react to the change in leadership.

"I think we will see more and more artwork created by Chicano artists as his term continues," Marin said.

Contact the writer: sschulte@scng.com, Twitter: @Stephreally

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Cheech Marin's Chicano art collection lands at Riverside museum

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Although Cheech Marin found his way to stardom as one half of the marijuana-loving duo Cheech and Chong, the actor and comedian always found time to appreciate art.