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Christie's Appraisal of Detroit's Art Comes in at $454-$867 Million
ArtfixDaily / December 19th, 2013
Christie's announced on Thursday its final appraisal of city-owned art in the Detroit Institute of Arts collections at $454 - $867 million. A van Gogh self-portrait led the numbers ...
FBI Closes in on Gardner Museum Heist Thieves
ArtfixDaily / December 18th, 2013
After 23 years and thousands of leads, the FBI says that they know who stole 13 masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. New developments...
Artist Uses Google Glass to Create Interactive Installation
ArtfixDaily / December 17th, 2013
A first of its kind in the world, David Daturna's Viewpoint of Billions is a a new kind of artwork that takes interactive art to the next level through Google Glass.
New York Court Rules to Keep Auction Consignors Anonymous
ArtfixDaily / December 17th, 2013
A New York court reversed a decision Tuesday that could have forced auction houses to reveal the names of sellers. Changed was a decision based...
World's Most Expensive Artwork to Go On View at Portland Art Museum
ArtfixDaily / December 16th, 2013
Oregon's Portland Art Museum will exhibit Three Studies of Lucian Freud by Francis Bacon, from December 21, 2013 to March 30, 2014. On loan from a private collection, the triptych sold for $142.4 million last month...
Sotheby's Sued by S.C Johnson Over Frank Lloyd Wright Furniture
ArtfixDaily / December 12th, 2013
Household products maker S.C. Johnson has sued Sotheby's over the upcoming sale of a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed desk and chair set made for the company's headquarters.
Christie's and Sotheby's Announce New Marketing Chiefs
ArtfixDaily / December 11th, 2013
Christie's and Sotheby's both announced on Tuesday the hiring of new chief marketing officers. Sotheby’s has lured...
U.S. Foundation Buys Hopi Masks, Plans Return to Tribe
ArtfixDaily / December 11th, 2013
Twenty-four Native American masks that sold for $530,000 at a Paris auction were bought by the Los Angeles-based Annenberg Foundation, the charity announced on Wednesday. The foundation says it will return them to...
Perez Art Museum Miami Debuts with Ai Weiwei
ArtfixDaily / December 10th, 2013
Perez Art Museum Miami opened its doors last week with an inaugural exhibition of work by the dissident Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei.
Van Gogh Replicas to Debut at the LA Art Show
ArtfixDaily / December 10th, 2013
Replicas of Vincent van Gogh's masterpieces will debut in the U.S. at the LA Art Show in January 2014. “Reliefographs,” a new product that reportedly replicates the original art's textures...
Paris Auction House Sells Hopi Artifacts for $1.6 million
ArtfixDaily / December 9th, 2013
Despite a request from the U.S. embassy to delay the auction, a French auction house went ahead with a contested sale of sacred Hopi masks on Monday. Outside the Drouot auction house, protestors marched...
Rockwell, Hopper Top American Art Sales in New York
ArtfixDaily / December 5th, 2013
Records were broken in New York sales of American art this week. An iconic Norman Rockwell fetched the highest price ever paid for a work offered at an American art auction while a museum's deaccessioned Edward Hopper brought an artist auction record.
Fragonard Fetches Auction Record $28 Million for Charity
ArtfixDaily / December 5th, 2013
A major work by the 18th-century French artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Portrait of François-Henri d’Harcourt, sold for £17,106,50. ($28 million) on Dec. 5 setting a world record price for the artist at auction. It is also the highest price for an Old Master painting sold...
Christie's Completes Appraisal of DIA Collection
ArtfixDaily / December 4th, 2013
Christie's announced that part of the Detroit Institute of Arts collection would fetch between $452 million and $866 million if sold to relieve some of the City of Detroit's $18 billion debt load. Auction experts appraised 5 percent of the museum's 66,000-piece collection, including...
New Trailer Released for "The Monuments Men"
Moviefone / December 3rd, 2013
Director, co-writer and star of the new movie "The Monuments Men," George Clooney spins a fascinating tale about saving art from Nazis during the chaos of World War II. A just-released trailer for the film shows
Traveling Exhibition Serves Up Food in American Art
ArtfixDaily / December 3rd, 2013
Art and Appetite: American Art, Culture, and Cuisine is a mouthwatering exhibition of 60 paintings that explores the art and culture of food.
Sky's the Limit at Art Basel Miami Beach
ArtfixDaily / December 3rd, 2013
Art Basel Miami Beach boasts about $3 billion worth of art is on sale from 258 international galleries this week. At this largest art fair in the U.S., comprised mostly of post-war and contemporary art, the estimated value of works offered is up...
New Lawsuits Erupt Against Knoedler Gallery
ArtfixDaily / December 1st, 2013
Two new lawsuits have been leveled against New York's now-defunct Knoedler & Co. Manny Silverman Gallery of Los Angeles and New York dealer...
First Published Book Fetches Auction Record
ArtfixDaily / December 1st, 2013
The Bay Psalm Book, the first book published in America, became the most expensive book ever sold at auction last week. One of only 11 known to exist today, the book brought...
Detroit Creditors Push for Valuation of Museum Collection
ArtfixDaily / November 26th, 2013
In court documents filed Tuesday, some of Detroit's creditors asked a bankruptcy judge to appoint a committee to value the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts.