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Picasso Vandal to Appear in Court
LA Times / January 10th, 2013
A Texas resident who defaced a Pablo Picasso painting at the Menil Collection last June turned himself in at the border of the U.S. and Mexico.
Goodwill Yields Pricey 19th Century Painting
ABC / January 9th, 2013
A staff member at a Goodwill store in Manassas, Virginia, had a good eye as she sorted through donations. Maria Rivera spotted an attractive painting that she set aside and it turned out to be...
Stolen Matisse Recovered in UK
BBC / January 7th, 2013
A stolen painting by Henri Matisse was found in England after an alert art dealer notified authorities. Valued at $1 million, Le Jardin, or The Garden, was taken during a brash robbery at...
Public High School Exhibits Multimillion Dollar Art Collection
INC / January 3rd, 2013
A 1913 graduate of a small town high school in Indiana left his alma mater with a tremendous legacy to honor his favorite teacher. From 1938 until his death in 1965, industrialist G. David Thompson showered artworks from his multimillion dollar collection to...
Homeless Heir to Huguette Clark Fortune Found Dead
ArtfixDaily / January 2nd, 2013
One of the possible heirs to the $300 million fortune left by Huguette Clark was discovered dead under a railroad pass in Wyoming.
Dallas Museum of Art Denied da Vinci Acquisition
Dallas News / December 18th, 2012
Officials from the Dallas Museum of Art have revealed that their efforts in fundraising tens of millions of dollars for a rediscovered work by Leonardo da Vinci were fruitless. The owners have...
Owl Painting Found in Attic Sells for Nearly $1 Million
ArtfixDaily / December 17th, 2012
When Jane Cordery cleaned her attic to make room for a plumber she was surprised to find an intricate painting of an owl hidden in the eaves.
City of Zurich Loses 5,000 Artworks
Business Insider / December 12th, 2012
On Monday, Switzerland's largest city, Zurich, announced that 5,176 works of art from its collections are missing.
Controversial Plans to Sell Corcoran Gallery of Art Building Scrapped
Washington Post / December 10th, 2012
Home to major works by the likes of Corot, Degas, Sargent, and Homer, the Corcoran Gallery of Art will remain in its historic Beaux-Arts building in Washington D.C. after spending months under the threat of sale.
Art Buyers Watch Trading Probe of Billionaire Steven Cohen
Bloomberg / December 6th, 2012
Sharks are circling around the carefully-curated art collection of billionaire hedge fund owner Steven A Cohen. Under investigation for...
Rare Raphael Drawing Rakes in Record $48 Million
ArtfixDaily / December 5th, 2012
One of Renaissance master Raphael's greatest drawings still in private hands soared to £29,721,250 ($47,869,045) on Wednesday at a Sotheby's sale in London.
Yale University Art Gallery Unveils $135 Million Renovation
New Haven Register / December 4th, 2012
Stretching across city blocks and combining three major buildings of varying architectural styles, Yale University Art Gallery will unveil its $135 million renovation project on Dec. 12. Monets and Basquiats...
Louvre Will Share Collections with Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
ArtfixDaily / November 18th, 2012
The world's most-visited museum, the Louvre, has made an exclusive agreement with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco to collaborate on a series of exhibitions and exchanges.
Picasso Painting of Mistress Swells to $41.5 Million in $163 Million Sotheby's Sale
ArtfixDaily / November 8th, 2012
A phone bidder picked up Pablo Picasso's 1932 painting of his lover and muse Marie-Therese Walter for $41.5 million to lead a mixed-results Sotheby's sale in New York on Thursday.
Mixed Results Start New York's Billion-Dollar Auction Season
ArtfixDaily / November 7th, 2012
Christie's kicked off the auction season in New York on Wednesday with a record price for Kandinsky and $44 million for a Monet water lilies painting. These key results were in sharp contrast to the thirty percent of offered lots that went unsold.
MoMA Issues Emergency Guidelines for Saving Artwork
ArtfixDaily / November 5th, 2012
In the wake of super storm Sandy's devastation, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has posted online a handy checklist of art-saving measures.
Iconic Artworks Could Signal a Blockbuster Auction Season
New York Times / November 1st, 2012
Next week's deluge of big-ticket art auctions in New York are tied to high expectations that the world's super-wealthy will continue to part with cash for hundreds of millions of dollars worth of artwork.
Google Art Project Hits 15 Million Viewers, 35,000 Artworks
ArtfixDaily / October 30th, 2012
The Phillips Collection, Palazzo Vecchio Museum, and the Clyfford Still Museum are just a few notable art institutions to join the ranks of image collections on Google Art Project. The site now boasts...
A Survey of Frightful Fine Art
Guardian / October 29th, 2012
Spooky paintings by the likes of art giants Bosch, Memling, Titian and Warhol evoke frightening imagery this Halloween season. Do you have a favorite scary work of art?
Monet Deaccession Amid Cleveland Museum of Art's $350 Million Expansion
Cleveland / October 29th, 2012
The Cleveland Museum of Art has opened the Ames Family Atrium, designed by New York architect Rafael Vinoly, and the centerpiece of a $350 million expansion. Alongside this mulitmillion-dollar expansion, the museum plans to trim its collection of a Monet.