Former Salander-O’Reilly Galleries Director Leigh Morse to Pay Restitution for Fraud

NEW YORK, NY (REUTERS).- Former art gallery director Leigh Morse escaped a lengthy prison term at her sentencing in a Manhattan criminal court on Tuesday but will owe $1.65 million in restitution for defrauding her clients. Morse will serve an intermittent sentence, spending weekends in confinement for four months, and be on probation for five years. The punishment capped a trial that saw actor Robert DeNiro testify against her. Morse, 55, was found guilty in April of selling more than 80 [...]

Exhibition of Photographs Taken During the Shooting of “The Godfather” and “Taxi Driver”

PARIS.- In 1971, Francis Ford Coppola started work on « The Godfather », one of the most acclaimed films ever made. Steve Schapiro, then a 37-year old established photojournalist was hired by Paramount as the special photographer for the film. This title gave Schapiro unprecedented access to one of the most stellar casts ever assembled, photographing whichever film scenes he chose, capturing the memorable moments often cited when referencing this film, including “the whisper”, and Marlon Brando with the cat. [...]

Robert De Niro Testifies in Gallery Owner Lawrence Salander-Related Art Fraud Trial

NEW YORK (AP).- It’s a role that moviegoers might not know Robert De Niro plays: overseeing his painter father’s estate. The Academy Award-winning actor served as a star witness Friday in an art-fraud trial, testifying against a former gallery director accused of selling some of the late Robert De Niro Sr.’s works without paying his family its share. Seeming as self-assured on the witness stand as his characters are on screen, De Niro told jurors about his family’s dealings with [...]

DC Moore Gallery Relocates to a Dynamic and Spacious New Location in Chelsea

NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery announce they are relocating to 535 West 22nd Street. The spacious new gallery opens on January 15, 2011. The move to a dynamic new location in Chelsea provides DC Moore with the opportunity to expand its ongoing program of concurrently presenting contemporary and 20th century exhibitions. The new space designed by Andrew Ong features two exhibition galleries, including an expansive area with high ceilings that can accommodate large-scale works and a smaller room designed [...]

MoMA to Celebrate Master Filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci with a Complete Retrospective of His Cinematic Career

NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art and Cinecittà Luce, Rome, present the cinematic oeuvre of Bernardo Bertolucci, with all new prints, December 15, 2010, through January 12, 2011. One of the most revered living masters of contemporary cinema, Bertolucci will be present to introduce the opening night screening of The Conformist (1970), a film that has deeply influenced American filmmakers as diverse as Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg. The retrospective will also present the US premiere of a rare documentary [...]

New York City Art Dealer Who Bilked Stars Gets Prison Time

NEW YORK (AP).- An art dealer who conned his star-studded clientele out of $120 million while indulging in such luxuries as a private baseball stadium was sentenced Tuesday to at least six years in prison for a fraud that swept up John McEnroe and the estate of Robert De Niro’s father. A tearful Lawrence Salander told a Manhattan judge before hearing the sentence, which could send him to prison for as long as 18 years without time off for good [...]

Photographer Steve McCurry Shoots De Niro, Brooklyn, India on Last Kodachrome Roll

ROCHESTER, NY (AP).- What should a photographer shoot when he’s entrusted with the very last roll of Kodachrome? Steve McCurry took aim at the Brooklyn Bridge, Grand Central Terminal and a few human icons, too. Paul Simon, the crooner synonymous with the fabled film’s richly saturated colors, shied away. But Robert De Niro stood in for the world of filmmaking. Then McCurry headed from his base in New York City to southern Asia, where in 1984 he shot a famous [...]

Ex-NY Art Dealer to Admit Nearly $100M Fraud

NEW YORK, NY.- A Manhattan art dealer who catered to celebrities and artists’ heirs apologized Thursday for bilking about $120 million from clients to finance a once-luxurious life now unraveled into bankruptcy, illness and a struggle with drinking. “I am deeply ashamed and sorry for my actions,” Lawrence B. Salander told a judge in a husky voice after acknowledging he stole millions from tennis star John McEnroe, the estate of actor Robert De Niro’s father and others. Salander, 60, admitted [...]

Matisse Museum Shows Paintings by Robert De Niro, Sr.

NICE.- The The Matisse Museum has chosen to display the works of the American painter Robert De Niro, Sr. (1922-1993), to answer its vocation of making known the works of Matisse, master of the 20th century, through different angles and, on this occasion, as a source of inspiration. The paintings and drawings of Robert De Niro, Sr. show a relationship to the works of Matisse through the creation of certain compositions, graphic assertion of certain drawings, use of the same [...]