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ARTFIXdaily News Feed - Monday, August 24, 2009
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 | Gov't Crackdown: Indian Artifact Dealers on Edge
AP - August 21st, 2009 17:39
SANTA FE, N.M. — An intensifying federal investigation into the sale of Native American artifacts has brought fear and uncertainty to one of the nation's largest and longest-running Indian artifact shows. At the 31st Annual Whitehawk Antiques Show, wealthy collectors were more cautious about buying artifacts for fear of criminal liability, and reputable dealers say they're working double-time to prove their legitimacy...Read more | |
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 | X-Rays Expose N.C. Wyeth Painting Hidden Under Another
FOX News - August 21st, 2009 17:57
A new X-ray technique has revealed the colorful details of a painting hidden underneath another painting by famed American artist N.C. Wyeth. Jennifer Mass, a scientist at Winterthur Museum, presented her findings on Wed. at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society...Read more | |
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 | Art Dealer to Actress: You Baroque My Reputation
TMZ - August 21st, 2009 17:22
Actress Claire Forlani is accused of wielding a pen that is indeed mightier than the sword ... and killing the reputation of an art dealer in the process. The former "CSI NY" star is being sued for allegedly crushing the "fragile and intangible" reputation of art dealer Paul Rusconi in a mass email she sent out to her friends, claiming she was sold fake William Claxtons and Keith Harings and overpaid for Warhols...Read more | |
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 | R.A.D Miller Painted a Darker Shade of New Hope
Philadlephia Inquirer - August 23rd, 2009 23:56
Robert Alexander Darrah Miller (1906-1966), known as R.A.D., isn't one of the more familiar names associated with Pennsylvania's New Hope art colony, perhaps because he wasn't an impressionist. Mentored by Daniel Garber, Miller's paintings could be categorized as modernist or realist with dark undertones. On view now through January 3, 2010, a small and insightful exhibition at the Michener Art Museum examines his work with 14 paintings, mostly culled from private collections...Read more | |
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 | S.F. dealer accused of selling fake Miró prints
San Francisco Gate - August 22nd, 2009 21:26
Veteran San Francisco art dealer Pasquale Iannetti, 69, who runs Pasquale Iannetti Art Galleries Inc. on Sutter Street, was indicted Thursday by a grand jury on charges of wire and mail fraud for allegedly shipping prints that purportedly had been authorized by Miró (shown here)...Read more | |
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 | Forklift Misfortune: $3 million Brice Marden painting rendered worthless
Reuters - August 22nd, 2009 21:35
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A $3 million painting by American abstract artist Brice Marden was destroyed while being moved from Moscow to New York due to the negligence of Lufthansa Cargo and others involved in its transport, a lawyer said on Friday. Gagosian Gallery had planned to sell the work at Sotheby's in New York before a forklift operator at the Frankfurt airport dislodged the painting from its packing material...Read more | |
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 | Ravi Kumar's straight talk on the art market
Deccan Herald - August 24th, 2009 00:39
A resident of Paris, curator Ravi Kumar has had the good fortune of befriending some of the biggest names in the art world of the 20th century like Max Ernst, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, and Robert Rauschenberg. He has also organised several international shows of contemporary Indian artists. Today, Kumar says the art market bust was rightfully coming, and "there isn’t going to be another art boom in the next 20-25 years" (in India at least), but high quality art still holds ...Read more | |
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