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Ripple Effect of the Arab World Art Boom

Wall Street Journal / October 28th, 2012

The Arab world is investing in their art culture with unprecedented spending, recently acquiring Cezanne’s The Card Players for $250 million, after purchasing the Louvre name for $525 million and another $750 million for works from its collection.

Gardner Museum Heist Inspires New Novel

CTPost / October 25th, 2012

A Boston art dealer, a young artist, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's unsolved 1990 art heist are woven together in a new novel called "one of the sleeper hits of the fall season."

Deactivated Lock Helped Art Thieves, Museum Says

New York Times / October 23rd, 2012

An electronic lock deactivated after an alarm was triggered, allowing two thieves to raid Rotterdam's Kunsthal museum last week. The Dutch museum issued a statement on Monday saying...

Hard Times for Washington's Corcoran, Sale Possible

Reuters / October 23rd, 2012

Washington's oldest museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, is seeking an eleventh hour saviour. The private, non-profit institution is steadily losing money even with the draw of its first-class collection of 17,000 artworks...

Showstoppers Abound at 24th International Fine Art & Antiques Dealers Show

New York Times / October 18th, 2012

Seventeen new exhibitors at the International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show bring even more swagger to the 24th edition of the prestigious fair at New York's Park Avenue Armory.

Major Art Theft at Dutch Museum: Monets, Matisse, and More Missing

ArtfixDaily / October 16th, 2012

Seven paintings by modern masters were brazenly stolen from Rotterdam's Kunsthal Museum in a pre-dawn heist on Tuesday. The massive take is valued at about €309m, and the artworks may be headed to...

Edvard Munch's The Scream Claimed as Nazi Loot

New York Post / October 15th, 2012

A week ahead of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" going on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, claims that the iconic painting has a tragic history have emerged.

Major Manet Exhibition Opens at Toledo Museum of Art

Cleveland Plain Dealer / October 14th, 2012

Perhaps the most important exhibition to open this fall between Chicago and the East Coast is the Toledo Museum of Art's survey of works by seminal 19th-century artist Edouard Manet.

Court Rules for Collector of Disputed Egon Schiele Drawing

ArtfixDaily / October 14th, 2012

On October 11, a seven-year legal dispute over the ownership of an Egon Schiele drawing concluded when the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York ruled that the current owner could keep full title despite claims by the heirs of a Schiele collector who contended that the work was stolen by ...

"Posters of Paris: Toulouse-Lautrec and His Contemporaries" Opens in Dallas

Dallas Museum of Art / October 11th, 2012

This fall, the Dallas Museum of Art presents Posters of Paris: Toulouse-Lautrec and His Contemporaries, an exhibition exploring the earliest days of the affiche artistique (artistic poster) and its flowering in Paris, first under Jules Chéret in the 1870s and 1880s, and then with a new generation of artists including Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Pierre Bonnard.

Picasso Show Delivers in Black and White

New York Times / October 5th, 2012

A monochromatic display of Pablo Picasso's work spans the artist's entire career, shown in his black-and-white pictures, at the Guggenheim through Jan. 23. Of note, many of the 118 works on display are from...

Important Venetian Paintings Return to Newport Mansion

Boston.com / October 1st, 2012

A group of donors has acquired a series of early 18th-century Venetian paintings to restore the dining room of one of Newport’s most stately mansions, The Elms, to its original appearance.

Brooke Astor Auction Doubles Estimate to $18.8 Million

Wall Street Journal / September 27th, 2012

The contents of the late philanthropist Brooke Astor's two homes sold for $18.8 million, nearly twice the high estimate, at Sotheby's.

Museum Recreates Art Exhibition Seen by JFK Before Assassination

U.S. News / September 24th, 2012

When President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy awoke in their Fort Worth, Texas, hotel room on Nov. 22, 1963, they were surprised to see an extraordinary exhibit of artwork. On that fateful day, the Kennedys viewed...

MoMA to Display Munch's "Scream"

New York Times / September 17th, 2012

A version of Edvard Munch's "The Scream"---the most expnseive artwork ever sold---will go on display at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). The mystery buyer will...

X-Rays Reveal Chemical Damaging Van Gogh's Colors

BBC / September 16th, 2012

A spray of vivid yellow flowers painted by Vincent Van Gogh have taken on a grayish-orange hue as a result of a chemical effect. Researchers have discovered through X-rays that ...

Titillating Details Abound in Tate's Victorian Picture Show

Independent / September 10th, 2012

Long-overlooked by modern audiences, certain elements of famous Pre-Raphaelite paintings from the Victorian era will be exposed as more risque than prudish in a major exhibition at Tate Britain.

Virginia Flea Market Yields a Possible Renoir

New York Times / September 9th, 2012

A woman poking around a Virginia flea market might have rediscovered a Renoir painting in a $50 box lot. An appraiser at the Potomac Company, in Alexandria, Virginia, is convinced that the work is...

Museum's Rediscovered Picasso Offered for Sale

/ September 3rd, 2012

A rare Pablo Picasso "gemmaux," a fired-glass artwork, recently unearthed by a museum in Evansville, Ind., will be offered for private sale by...

80-year-old Amateur Artist Botches Restoration of Church Painting

Washington Post blog / August 23rd, 2012

A century-old church fresco depicting Christ was overpainted by an elderly parishioner in a failed attempt to restore the work. Cecilia Gimenez had good intentions to fix the peeling painting by...