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Activist Investor Loeb's Third Point Sues Sotheby's
ArtfixDaily / March 26th, 2014
Billionaire activist investor Daniel Loeb has sued Sotheby's in an attempt to gain more shares and board representation in the publicly-traded auction house.
C.M. Russell Painting Fetches $1.25 Million at Auction
ArtfixDaily / March 25th, 2014
An oil painting depicting horse thieves by famed Western artist Charles M. Russell brought $1.25 million at auction on Saturday.
Rembrandt Painting Stolen in 1999 Recovered
ArtfixDaily / March 25th, 2014
Fifteen years ago, thieves took Rembrandt's "Child with a Soap Bubble" from a French museum. Two men, aged 44 and 51, have now been arrested for the theft after...
Auction Houses Hire Lobbyists to Defeat Resale Royalties Bill
ArtfixDaily / March 24th, 2014
Major auction houses and internet auctioneers are taking no chances that the American Royalties Too Act, which would pay royalties to visual artists (or their estates) from resale profits at public auctions, will pass in Congress.
Contested van Gogh Painting Will Stay at Yale
ArtfixDaily / March 23rd, 2014
A Russian man who claimed that a Vincent van Gogh painting was stolen from his family during the communist revolution was denied...
Norwegian Museum Will Return Matisse Painting to Heirs
ArtfixDaily / March 24th, 2014
A Nazi-looted painting by Henri Matisse will be returned to the heirs of a Jewish art dealer by a museum in Norway. Painted in 1937, "Woman in Blue in Front of a Fireplace” is valued at...
New Director of LA's Museum of Contemporary Art Takes it Slow
Los Angeles Times / March 20th, 2014
Philippe Vergne says he will focus on careful planning as he takes the reins of LA's Museum of Contemporary Art Museum (MOCA). Fresh from New York...
Gardner Museum Joins Google Art Project on Anniversary of Art Heist
ArtfixDaily / March 18th, 2014
On the anniversary of the 1990 heist that remains the world's biggest art theft ever, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston joined the public stage of the Google Art Project. Select artworks from the museum are now available online, and the Gardner became the first New England institution ...
Hidden Art Collection Comes to Auction
ArtfixDaily / March 18th, 2014
A German immigrant who built his fortune in the hosiery business in Reading, Pa., George D. Horst amassed a fine collection of paintings that ended up tucked away out of public view for eight decades...
Case of Stolen Gustav Klimt Painting Reopened
ArtfixDaily / March 18th, 2014
Advances in DNA testing will allow police to reopen the case of a Gustav Klimt painting stolen more than 17 years ago in Italy.
Rachel "Bunny" Mellon, Arts Patron, Remembered
ArtfixDaily / March 17th, 2014
Arts patron, gardener and philanthropist Rachel "Bunny" Mellon died at her home in Upperville, Va., on Monday. She was 103. The wife of Pittsburgh arts patron and banking heir Paul Mellon...
TEFAF Reports Confident Market, Strong Sales
ArtfixDaily / March 16th, 2014
A record 10,000 visitors made the pilgrimage to Maastricht, the Netherlands, for the Private View on March 14 of TEFAF, the world's most prestigious art and antiques fair. Six-and seven-figure sales were...
College Art Museum Sanctioned Over Sale of Bellows Painting
ArtfixDaily / March 16th, 2014
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College in Virginia has been served a sanction for selling off a key artwork in order fund college operations. George Bellows’ painting Men of the Docks from its collections was sold for...
Missing Norman Rockwell Painting Found in Ohio
ArtfixDaily / March 13th, 2014
A missing Norman Rockwell painting valued at about $1 million was found in Ohio by a private investigator. The 22-by-28 canvas oil painting titled "Sport" disappeared from...
Art Sales Near $66 Billion in Worldwide Market
ArtfixDaily / March 12th, 2014
In 2013, the global art market edged towards levels not seen since the start of the financial crisis. Worldwide sales came to 47.4 billion euros ($65.9 billion)...
Art Collection to Be Stored in Innovative Warehouse Open to the Public
Gizmodo / March 11th, 2014
In Rotterdam, a new building shaped like an enormous salad bowl, complete with leafy greens on top, will house the city's precious art collection. Works of art not normally on view will be stored in the building and it will be open to the public to explore.
Van Gogh Owned by James Bond's Archrival Offered at TEFAF
ArtfixDaily / March 10th, 2014
A Vincent van Gogh painting that once belonged to an American millionaire who Ian Fleming modeled James Bond's villainous foe Goldfinger after will go on sale at TEFAF Maastricht.
Dutch Landscape Masterpiece Acquired by Kimbell Art Museum
ArtfixDaily / March 9th, 2014
The Kimbell Art Museum, in Fort Worth, Texas, has acquired "Edge of a Forest with a Grainfield," an exceptional work by one of the greatest landscape painters of all time, Jacob van Ruisdael. The circa-1656 painting had been in the collection of...
Holocaust Survivor Files Lawsuit Against Germany Over Art Trove
ArtfixDaily / March 6th, 2014
An 88-year-old Holocaust survivor from New York City has filed a lawsuit against German authorities over the return of a painting that he claims was stolen in the 1930s and is now part of the art hoard recently discovered in Munich.
Obama's Budget: Heavy on DC Museums, Light on Arts Grants
ArtfixDaily / March 5th, 2014
Washington, D.C. museums will continue with strong funding from the federal government in a budget proposed by President Obama. The Smithsonian and the National Gallery of Art will get Obama's entire...