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Bernie Madoff Art Collection Goes Under Gavel
art / July 10th, 2013
Artwork from accused Ponzi-schemer Bernie Madoff's former offices in New York will head to auction later this year. While the collection does not rank...
Hirshhorn Museum Board Chair Resigns in Wake of Director's Exodus
Washington Post / July 10th, 2013
Constance Caplan, chair of the Hirshhorn Museum board of trustees, announced her resignation on Monday following an exodus that has included the museum's director and other board members. Former director Richard Koshalek's proposed $12.5 million...
Judge Rules for Hedge Fund to Take $33 Million in Art from Swindler
ArtfixDaily / July 9th, 2013
On July 2, Federal Judge Jed Rakoff upheld a decision to allow a hedge fund to take possession of 15 artworks from accused swindler Marc Dreier. A Harvard and Yale-educated lawyer (now disbarred), Dreier is...
Ellsworth Kelly to Receive National Medal of Arts
ArtfixDaily / July 9th, 2013
On Wednesday, July 10, 2013, President Obama will present Ellsworth Kelly, who turned 90 earlier this year, with a National Medal of Arts. Among the other recipients for 2012 at next week's ceremony will be...
Colby College Unveils Major Museum Expansion, New Acquisitions
ArtfixDaily / July 8th, 2013
This weekend, the new Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion will be unveiled at the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine. Already known for its vast and important American art collection, Colby now boasts the most...
Cleveland Museum of Art Wins Rare Titian Copy at Auction
http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2013/07/the_cleveland_museum_of_art_pa.html / July 8th, 2013
On July 4, Cleveland Museum of Art curator Jon Seydl celebrated his winning bid for an Englishman's copy of Titian’s famous 16th-century masterpiece, “Bacchus and Ariadne.” Beyond a masterful copy, the work was...
El Greco Tops Record-Setting Old Masters Sale
ArtfixDaily / July 7th, 2013
A 17th-century painting by El Greco brought an artist auction record of £9.15 million at Sotheby's Old Masters sale in London last week. A Russian telephone bidder reportedly...
Art Collector Bill Koch Lists Cape Cod Compound for $15 Million
ArtfixDaily / June 27th, 2013
Described as a "Yachtsman's Paradise on Nantucket Sound," the Osterville estate of billionaire art collector William "Bill" I. Koch is on the market for $15 million. The Cape Cod mansion...
Amazon Plans Online Art Gallery
ArtfixDaily / June 27th, 2013
Internet retailer Amazon has plans to launch an online art gallery featuring about 1,000 works from smaller dealers. About 125 dealers have ...
Works from Avon Corporate Art Collection Up for Auction
ArtfixDaily / June 26th, 2013
More than 90 photographs from the corporate art collection of beauty product giant Avon will be offered at auction this fall. ‘Works from Avon Collection’ will include nearly all of the company’s photography collection, with works by significant...
Basquiat Painting Tops London Auction
ArtfixDaily / June 26th, 2013
A signature graffiti-style painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat brought $29 million at Christie's in London on Tuesday. The untitled 1982 oilstick-on-panel sold to...
U.S. Authorities Seize $11.5 Million Picasso Painting
ArtfixDaily / June 25th, 2013
A U.S. district judge decided on Monday that a 1909 Pablo Picasso painting titled "Compotier et tasse," or "Fruit bowl and cup," will remain with U.S. authorities while criminal proceedings are underway against the painting's owner...
Portrait Returned to Family After Missing Since WWII
Bloomberg / June 24th, 2013
An oil portrait of Duchess Anna Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach painted by Angelika Kauffmann in her Rome studio in 1789 has been reunited with its rightful heir 70 years since...
Egon Schiele Artwork Becomes Most Expensive Online-Only Auction Sale
Forbes / June 24th, 2013
A 1916 watercolor by Egon Schiele brought the top price yet for an artwork offered in an online-only auction on Friday, according to German start-up Auctionata. Schiele's “Reclining Woman” sold for...
Art Dealer's Hamptons Home Keeps $40 Million List Price
Chicago Curbed / June 23rd, 2013
Art dealer Bernard Goldberg's 5,000-square-foot, shingle-style home on chic Lily Pond Lane in East Hamptons, New York, is on the market for...
Picasso Vase Fetches Record $1.53 Million at Auction
ArtfixDaily / June 23rd, 2013
A vase by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) soared to 980,275 pounds ($1.53 million) at auction on Wednesday, becoming the most expensive ceramic by the artist ever sold at auction, according to...
Two New Exhibitions Open June 29 at Crystal Bridges
ArtfixDaily / June 20th, 2013
June 29 marks the opening of two new exhibitions at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. A traveling exhibition, Angels and Tomboys: Girlhood in Nineteenth-Century American Art explores the myriad ways artists portrayed young girls: from the sentimental, ...
Nahmad Family Monet Tops Sotheby's Near-$200 Million Sale Series
ArtfixDaily / June 20th, 2013
Sotheby’s London Impressionist & Modern Art summer sales series concluded on June 20 with a combined total of £127,557,000 / $199,325,581. The top lot of the $165 million evening sale was Claude Monet’s...
Swiss Set Up Website to Track Nazi-Looted Art
ArtfixDaily / June 18th, 2013
A key destination for art in the era around World War II, Switzerland has now launched an online resource to help recover artworks looted by the Nazis. Claimants, museums and researchers can...
Expanded Hudson River School Art Trail Opens for Season
ArtfixDaily / June 18th, 2013
Search for the sublime this summer with a weekend guided hike on the Hudson River School Art Trail. Starting Saturday, you can escape in 19th-century style on a tour to a cool mountain top with exceptional scenery enjoyed by scores of painters since the 1800s.