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Russian Billionaire Rybolovlev Hits Sotheby's With $380 Million Lawsuit
Bloomberg / October 3rd, 2018
Bloomberg's Katya Kazakina reports: The epic international legal drama that has pitted a Russian billionaire against a Swiss art entrepreneur [Yves Bouvier] took a new turn on Tuesday with Dmitry Rybolovlev slapping Sotheby’s auction house with a $380 million lawsuit in New York. Rybolovlev ...
Berkshire Museum to Sell More Art, And Search for New Director
ArtfixDaily / October 1st, 2018
The embattled Berkshire Museum in Massachusetts has announced that more artworks will be sold from its collections. Legal battles erupted over the museum's 2017 decision to sell artworks in order to bolster its endowment. So far, about $45 million has been raised by the Berkshire's art sales, ...
Record Setting $65 Million Chinese Painting Tops Strong Sale in Hong Kong
CNN / October 1st, 2018
CNN: A painting by the Chinese-French painter Zao Wou-Ki sold for a record 510 million Hong Kong dollars ($65 million) Sunday, leading one of Asia's largest ever art auctions. The artist's abstract work "Juin-Octobre 1985" is now the most expensive painting ever to go under the hammer in Hong ...
Women Artists of the Hudson River School Featured in Exhibition at Worcester Art Museum
Telegram / September 26th, 2018
In 2010, Thomas Cole National Historic Site, with art dealer Jennifer C. Krieger of Hawthorne Fine Art, organized “Remember the Ladies: Women Artists of the Hudson River School”, the first known exhibition ever to focus solely on women artists associated with the 19th century landscape ...
Artist Marina Abramovic Hit With a Painting in Italy Attack
Daily Beast / September 24th, 2018
Performance artist Marina Abramovic was attacked at Italy's Palazzo Strozzi by a man wielding a framed painting. The artist was reportedly uninjured in the incident in which the man allegedly smashed his own artwork over her head in the Florence museum. Police are investigating. Abramovic ...
Japanese Billionaire Art Collector Will Invite Artists With Him to the Moon on Elon Musk's Rocket
New York Times / September 18th, 2018
In a press conference on Monday, the identity of the first lunar tourist was unveiled as Japanese fashion billionaire Yusaku Maezawa. Known in the U.S. as the art collector who bought Jean-Michel Basquiat's record-breaking $110.5 million painting in 2017, Maezawa is planning to make his space ...
Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Art Auction Raises $11 Million for Environmental Causes
Sonoma Magazine / September 16th, 2018
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio's annual art benefit auction was held Sept. 15 in Sonoma County, Calif. with a roster of A-list celebrities attending. The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation (LDF) in partnership with Jackson Family Wines, sold 17 lots of experiences, collectibles and artworks by artists ...
Master of Color and Composition, Abstract Artist Sean Scully Spotlighted in Major Exhibitions
ArtfixDaily / September 11th, 2018
‘I have spent my life making the melancholic into something irresistible. Because the world has changed around me and become more regretful, my paintings have become more true.’- Sean Scully Irish-born artist Sean Scully (b. 1945) is in the limelight this year with 15 international exhibitions, ...
Glenstone Museum Foundation Sued by Contractor for $24 Million
New York Times / September 9th, 2018
The Glenstone Foundation in Potomac, Maryland, a museum that houses a top-tier post-war and contemporary art collection, has been sued for $24 million in damages by its contractor just weeks before its expansion debuts. HITT Contracting filed the lawsuit over the building project, alleging that ...
Judy Garland's Ruby Slippers Found After Museum Theft 13 Years Ago
Star Tribune / September 4th, 2018
The FBI announced Tuesday that they have found the stolen red sequined slippers worn nearly 80 years ago by actress Judy Garland as Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz." Pilfered from a museum in the actress' hometown of Grand Rapids, Minn., the shoes have been missing for 13 years. On loan from ...
Louvre Abu Dhabi Delays Display of Da Vinci's Salvator Mundi
BBC / September 4th, 2018
In a surprise announcement, Abu Dhabi's Department of Culture and Tourism says the unveiling of Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi"---the world's most expensive painting---will be indefinitely delayed at the Louvre Abu Dhabi. The painting was sold for a record $450.3 million at a ...
Brazil's Oldest Museum Consumed by Fire
The Guardian / September 3rd, 2018
A massive fire ripped through Brazil's oldest museum on Sunday night, possibly destroying some 20 million artifacts. The 200-year-old Museu Nacional (National Museum) housed natural history collections including fossils and indigenous artifacts found in Brazil as well as antiquities from Egypt ...
Disneyland Memorabilia Collection Fetches $8.3 Million at California Auction
Mercury News / August 30th, 2018
Disneyland collectibles that a man had amassed since 1993 sold for $8.3 million at a Sherman Oaks, Calif., auction last weekend. The consignor, Hollywood agent Richard Kraft, offered up his 900-piece Disney collection, in part to help fund charities that benefit children with special needs, ...
Is Another 'New' Rembrandt About to be Revealed?
Dutch News / August 28th, 2018
In November, an exhibition of early works by Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn is scheduled to go on view in the artist's hometown of Leiden. A previously unknown work by Rembrandt will debut in the exhibition, says a Dutch curator. Christiaan Vogelaar, curator of old master paintings at the ...
Italy Attempts to Foil The Frick's 'Most Important Painting Purchase' in Decades
ArtfixDaily / August 26th, 2018
In December, New York's Frick Collection revealed that it had made its most important painting purchase since 1991. Now, the Italian government says it didn't realize that the painting's subject was a prince, and officials want to keep the painting in the country. The Frick had announced its ...
Museum Featuring Westervelt CEO Jack Warner's Collection Will Close, and More Art Sold
ArtfixDaily / August 23rd, 2018
The Tuscaloosa Museum of Art in Alabama, housing the renowned collection of 17th-20th century American and Asian fine art, furniture and decorative arts formed by the late Westervelt Company CEO Jack Warner, will close on Aug. 31. In a statement the museum noted: "While The Westervelt Company ...
SpaceX to Blast Artist Trevor Paglen's Shiny Sculpture Into Orbit
ArtfixDaily / August 23rd, 2018
Starry, starry night gets more bling... A fourteen-foot diameter Mylar balloon hanging in the Nevada Museum of Art is but a tiny model for a project by artist Trevor Paglen that is scheduled to be blasted into space this fall. In partnership with the Nevada Museum of Art and in ...
AI-Generated Artwork Heads to Christie's in a First-Ever Sale
Christie's / August 21st, 2018
A portrait created by artifical intelligence will the hit auction block this fall. An artist collective's algorithm has made an abstracted 18th/19th century-looking man, Portrait of Edmond Belamy, which will test the waters for AI art in the Prints & Multiples sale at ...
Museum Visitor Falls Into Anish Kapoor's 8-Foot 'Descent Into Limbo'
Gizmodo / August 20th, 2018
A museum visitor descended 8 feet into Anish Kapoor's Descent Into Limbo installation in Portugal last week. The injured Italian museum-goer possibly did not see the warning signs around the installation, which was not roped off at the exhibit in Serralves Museum in Porto. Painted ...
Ai Weiwei's New Work 'Life Cycle' Debuts in L.A. This Fall
ArtfixDaily / August 19th, 2018
Marciano Art Foundation will present a solo exhibition of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, on view from September 28, 2018 — March 3, 2019, at the Los Angeles non-profit. This exhibition is Ai’s first major institutional exhibition in Los Angeles and will feature the new and unseen work Life ...