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Experts Claim Fifty Percent of Artwork on the Market is Fake
AFP / October 14th, 2014
Scientists at the Fine Arts Experts Institute (FAEI) in Geneva say that 70 to 90 percent of the artwork that they analyze is fake. More than half of artworks circulating on the market are either forgeries or misattributed contend some authorities...
Swiss Museum Will Accept Uncontested Artworks from Gurlitt's Hoard
ArtfixDaily / October 13th, 2014
A Swiss art museum will accept artworks from the bequest of Cornelius Gurlitt, the reclusive German hoarder who died in May. Worth an estimated 1 billion euros...
Christie's $75 Million Essl Collection Sale Kicks Off Frieze Week
Bloomberg / October 13th, 2014
London's Frieze week began with 44 works from the Essl collection of contemporary art selling for $75 million at Christie's on Monday. Top lot distinction went to...
Marian Goodman Gallery Opens with Gerhard Richter Exhibition in London
Guardian / October 12th, 2014
Marian Goodman, aged 86, has been operating at the pinnacle of the art industry for over half a century. The native New Yorker is now entering the London art scene...
Whitney Studio Designated "National Treasure" by National Trust of Historic Preservation
Blog PreservationNation / October 10th, 2014
In the early 20th century, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney spurned a life as a privileged socialite to make her mark as a noted sculptor, arts patron, and cultivator of audiences for American artists at her New York City studio.
Expert Claims Research Reveals Dozens of Newly Authenticated Rembrandts
WSJ / October 9th, 2014
A Dutch art expert says that 70 paintings have been newly attributed to Rembrandt after languishing for decades as by a follower of the master.
MFA Boston to Present "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: Selections from the Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection"
ArtfixDaily / October 8th, 2014
Hundreds of wall labels at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, read “Gift of Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf.” In fact, nearly 3,000 works...
New Details Emerge from 'Document Dump' in Knoedler Case
Art Newspaper / October 8th, 2014
A "document dump" of legal filings and exhibits has made new information public in the multimillion-dollar art-forgery scandal surrounding New York's Knoedler gallery.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Acquires Egyptian Artifacts Withdrawn from Auction
ArtfixDaily / October 8th, 2014
A group of 4,000-year-old Egyptian artifacts, valued at about $200,000, was withdrawn from a Bonhams auction last week after historians complained that their sale could take important cultural artifacts from the public realm.
"Revival and Reform—Eclecticism in the 19th-Century Environment" to Open at Morse Museum
ArtfixDaily / October 8th, 2014
The Arts window, a neoclassical masterpiece by J. & R. Lamb Studios, makes its debut at the Morse Museum of American Art, in Winter Park, Florida, as the centerpiece of a major new exhibition.
Paris Museums Accelerate Initiatives with Crowd-Funding
New York Times / October 7th, 2014
Budget cuts from state aid are forcing cultural institutions in Paris to ask the public to raise thousands, sometimes millions, in micro-donations. Crowd-funding is taking off...
Record Price Set for Wine at Auction in Hong Kong
ArtfixDaily / October 6th, 2014
An Asian-based buyer picked up the most expensive lot of wine ever sold, with 114 bottles of Burgundy garnering HK$12,556,250 ($1.6 million) on Oct. 4.
Billionaire Scaife's Collection of Sailor's Valentines at Auction
Tribune Review / October 6th, 2014
Intricate 19th-century shellwork folk art from the Nantucket home of the late billionaire publisher Richard Mellon Scaife comes to auction this week.
Giacometti Sculpture Could Fetch $100 Million at Auction
Sotheby's / October 4th, 2014
A work by Alberto Giacometti is expected to crack $100 million at auction next month.
Britain's Wedgwood Collection Saved by Speedy Fundraiser
ArtfixDaily / October 4th, 2014
More than 7,000 people donated to a month-long campaign to save the Wedgwood collection in the U.K. from being sold off.
Judge Grills Detroit Emergency Manager: "Why Not Monetize the Art?"
Detroit Free Press / October 4th, 2014
On day 18 of Detroit's historic bankruptcy trial, Judge Steven Rhodes pressed the city's emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, to state a better argument for saving the Detroit Institute of Art's collection...
'The Art Newspaper' Sold to Russian Entrepreneur
Art Newspaper / October 4th, 2014
Described as a "mathematician, engineer and collector," Inna Bazhenova, who lives in Moscow and in the UK, has acquired The Art Newspaper.
'Invisible Art' Exhibition Rattles Art World Wary Folks
CBC / October 2nd, 2014
An image of people staring intently at stark gallery walls along with a compelling artist's story of creating "invisible art," some of it "heavy" sculpture, caused an uproar on the Internet this week.
'Ai Weiwei: Not at Blenheim Palace' Film Goes Behind the Scenes
ArtfixDaily / October 2nd, 2014
A brief art film from London's NOWNESS gives a portrait of the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, estranged from his biggest UK exhibition to date.
Artist Bosco Sodi Creates an Art Utopia with Architect Tadao Ando
WSJ / October 2nd, 2014
Brooklyn-based artist Bosco Sodi's new arts foundation in Oaxaca, Mexico, designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando, is meant to be "a refuge for artists and the local community."