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Rothko Expert Ensnared by Knoedler Gallery Art Scandal
NY Times / April 2nd, 2014
A lawsuit filed Tuesday in US District Court in Manhattan names a respected art historian and curator in the stupendous art scam centered around fakes sold by Knoedler Gallery in New York. Las Vegas casino mogul...
Revel in L.C. Tiffany's Spring Flowers at Morse Museum
ArtfixDaily / March 26th, 2014
In Winter Park, Florida, a gem of a museum offers an ideal spring getaway. The Morse Museum of American Art boasts the world’s most comprehensive collection of works by Louis Comfort Tiffany...
Delaware Art Museum to Sell Artworks to Alleviate Debt
ArtfixDaily / March 26th, 2014
The Delaware Art Museum announced on Wednesday the impending sale of four artworks from its collection to offset a $19.8 million bond debt. Known for premier holdings of American art and Pre-Raphaelite paintings...
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.
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...
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...
Basquiat Estate Sues Christie's Over Alleged Fake Works
ArtfixDaily / March 5th, 2014
An auction of 40 artworks by the late artist Jean-Michel Basquiat has sparked a lawsuit by the artist's estate against Christie's. The estate claims that...
Galleries Ready Their Best Works for This Week's ADAA Art Show
ArtfixDaily / February 27th, 2014
Gallery presentations at the 26th annual ADAA Art Show, the nation's longest running fine art fair, will feature thoughtfully curated solo, two-person and thematic exhibitions by 72 of the nation’s leading art dealers.
Art Collectors Sue Keith Haring Foundation for $40 Million
ArtfixDaily / February 23rd, 2014
In a lawsuit filed on Friday, nine art collectors claimed that the Keith Haring Foundation cost them at least $40 million by labeling about 90 paintings as fakes.
Corcoran Gallery of Art May Finally Give Up Its Collections, Building
ArtfixDaily / February 19th, 2014
A perfect storm of difficulties is forcing the 145-year-old Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington to seriously consider a partnership with...
Obama Picks New Chair of the NEA
ArtfixDaily / February 16th, 2014
The White House announced last week that President Obama will nominate Jane Chu as the next chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Sotheby's Sale Soars to $146 Million With Richter, Warhol Stand-outs
ArtfixDaily / February 12th, 2014
A vibrant red and blue abstract painting by Gerhard Richter and Andy Warhol's red 1973 portrait of Mao Zedong helped boost Sotheby's contemporary art sale in London to 87.9 million pounds ($146 million).
The President Hangs Edward Hopper Paintings in Oval Office
ArtfixDaily / February 11th, 2014
Two 1930s paintings by eminent American artist Edward Hopper have been chosen to adorn the Oval Office. Both works are on loan from...
National Gallery London Acquires George Bellows Painting
ArtfixDaily / February 8th, 2014
A painting by American realist George Bellows has been purchased by the National Gallery in London for $25.5 million. Billed as the museum's first major acquisition by an American artist, Bellows's "Men at the Docks," from 1912, was sold by...
Joan Mondale, Arts Supporter, Remembered
ArtfixDaily / February 4th, 2014
An effective advocate for the fine arts, Joan Mondale earned the nickname Joan of Art in Washington during the vice presidential term of her husband, Walter E. Mondale, in the late 1970s.
Monet to Sargent Masterworks Among Treasures to be Sold From Clark Estate
ArtfixDaily / February 3rd, 2014
Christie's revealed some of the highlights in sales this spring of works from the estate of copper heiress Huguette Clark. Four masterworks by Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir...
A FRAME FOR "PICTURING MEXICO: RAMOS MARTINEZ IN CALIFORNIA"
ArtfixDaily / January 19th, 2014
One of the paintings currently on exhibition at the Pasadena Museum of California Art is philanthropist Dwight Stuart’s "La Iglesia de Texcoco" by Mexican Modernist Ramos Martinez. It is remarkable not only for the subject matter. but also for...
Americana Week: Buyers Find Plenty of Treasures, from Folk to Fancy
ArtfixDaily / January 27th, 2014
For collectors and curators looking for the unusual, the beautiful, the "best of the best," or simply a take-home slice of Americana, Antiques Week in New York offered it all.
U.S. Army Readies Art for New Museum
Washington Post / January 16th, 2014
An arsenal of 16,000 artworks--powerful images by the likes of Norman Rockwell, Ogden Pleissner and George Biddle--is waiting in a conservation facility for a new museum to open.