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Alec Baldwin Settles with Art Dealer Over Painting
New Yorker / November 13th, 2017
Actor Alec Baldwin settled last week with New York art dealer Mary Boone after a lengthy and bitter legal dispute over a painting. The feud was over a Ross Bleckner painting titled "Sea and Mirror" from 1996 that Baldwin thought he was buying from Boone for $190,000. A smell of fresh ...
Holt Printing of Declaration of Independence Fetches Record Price at Auction
Watertown Daily Times / November 12th, 2017
One of five known 1776 copies of the Declaration of Independence printed in New York by John Holt sold for a record price to a California collector at auction on Saturday. Blanchard's in Potsdam, New York, sold the newly-discovered document for $1.5 million, setting a world record for any New ...
Benjamin Genocchio Removed as Armory Show Director Amid Sex Harassment Allegations
New York Times / November 9th, 2017
Influential art world figure and former Artnet editor Benjamin Genocchio has been ousted as executive director of the Armory Show in New York City after the New York Times reported multiple sexual harassment allegations against him. Prior to heading the Armory Show, which is one of ...
Lord Mayor of London Returns Nazi Looted Old Master Painting
The Art Newspaper / November 7th, 2017
A Dutch Old Master painting that was looted from the Netherlands during World War II was returned by the Lord Mayor of London to an heir of the owner on Monday. "The Oyster Meal" by Jacob Ochtervelt (around 1664-65) hung at Mansion House, the official residence of the Lord Mayor, for 30 years. ...
ARTFIXdaily Closed for Maintenance, Nov. 6-7
ArtfixDaily / November 5th, 2017
ARTFIXdaily is closed for maintenance, Nov. 6-7. E-newsletter service will resume on Wednesday, Nov. 8. ArtGuild members may continue to add content to the ArtWire and Calendar during the closure.
Court Delays Auction of Berkshire Museum Art
ArtfixDaily / November 1st, 2017
Updated 11/12/17: The Massachusetts Attorney General secured a 30-day pause for the sale of artworks from the Berkshire Museum that was scheduled to take place at Sotheby's on Monday, Nov. 13. The museum and lawyers for opponents of the sale will meet again, this time in Boston, at the ...
Court Date Looming, Attorney General Files to Stop Berkshire Museum Art Sales
Berkshire Eagle / October 31st, 2017
The Massachusetts attorney general on Monday joined in to halt the sale of multimillions in artwork that the Berkshire Museum planned to send to the auction block next month. A 26-page filing from Attorney General Maura Healey sides with motions from two other groups, one of which includes ...
Paul Newman's Rolex Daytona Sets Auction Record at $17.8 Million
ArtfixDaily / October 30th, 2017
A rare Rolex watch that was owned by the late movie star Paul Newman has sold for nearly $17.8 million, making it the most expensive watch ever auctioned. A telephone bidder secured the watch at a Phillips sale on Thursday. Oscar-winning Newman, who died in 2008 at age 83, wore the ...
Art World Circulates 'Not Surprised' Open Letter After Artforum Scandal
ArtfixDaily / October 30th, 2017
Thousands of people signed an open letter by early Monday against sexual harassment in the art world following numerous allegations that took down Artforum co-publisher Knight Landesman last week. The letter on the website Not Surprised includes a wide array of ...
Authorities Seize Ancient Artifact at TEFAF New York
New York Times / October 29th, 2017
Police officers and two prosecutors seized an ancient limestone bas-relief from the booth of a London dealer at The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) New York Fall fair on Friday, reports the New York Times. The prestigious, vetted fair is on view at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan. The piece ...
Teddy Roosevelt Statue Defaced Outside Museum
New York Times / October 26th, 2017
Activists used red paint to deface the base of a bronze Theodore Roosevelt monument at the entrance of the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan early Thursday morning. "Roosevelt was an open white supremacist and imperialist who is still lionized by the museum and the city plaza ...
Einstein Note on Theory of Happiness Fetches $1.6 Million
NPR / October 26th, 2017
When Albert Einstein was visiting Tokyo's Imperial Hotel in 1922, he gave a bellboy a handwritten note instead of a tip. Scribbled in German on a piece of hotel stationery, Einstein wrote his theory of happiness: "A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success ...
Artforum Publisher Knight Landesman Resigns Amid Claims of Sexual Misconduct
ArtfixDaily / October 25th, 2017
A lawsuit against Knight Landesman, 67, co-publisher of Artforum magazine, was filed Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court. The suit claims that Landesman sexually harrassed a former employee for years. Nine women have come forward to accuse Landesman of harrassment although only one is named as a ...
LACMA Curator Receives Mysterious Letter from a Missing Painting
Hyperallergic / October 25th, 2017
A mysterious letter penned in a first-person style, as if a painting is speaking, was sent to a curator at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), reported the Los Angeles Times. The painting at the center of the letter is “Española” (Spanish girl), the final, missing work in a set of ...
Berkshire Museum Withdraws Some Artworks from Nov. 13 Auction
Berkshire Eagle / October 24th, 2017
Half the artworks consigned by the Berkshire Museum in a Nov. 13 Sotheby's sale have been withdrawn, reports Berkshire Eagle. Seven works remain in the sale, including two Norman Rockwell paintings that the artist's family has filed a lawsuit to oppose the museum's deaccessioning of the works. ...
Rockwell Family Sues Berkshire Museum
New York Times / October 22nd, 2017
A group that includes three children of Norman Rockwell is suing the Berkshire Museum in Massachusetts over a controversial planned sale of two works by the famed artist, the New York Times reported. Papers filed with a Massachusetts judge on Friday state that the group seeks to stop the museum ...
The OxyContin Fortune Bankrolling Museums
Esquire / October 19th, 2017
Esquire details the little-known connection between a family fortune built on the pain medication, OxyContin, and a substantial legacy of museum philanthropy. The Sackler family name is much associated with museum buildings and higher education, but less so with a $14 billion pharma fortune ...
Karen Pence Explains Art Therapy for Her Second Lady Platform
ArtfixDaily / October 18th, 2017
Second Lady Karen Pence brought 100 pounds of clay with her to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico. Packed onto Air Force Two, the clay was meant for an art therapist that Pence had heard needed the artistic medium for children on the devastated island. On Wednesday, Pence unveiled details of her ...
Rockwell Family Presses for Berkshire Museum to Halt Art Sales
Berkshire Eagle / October 17th, 2017
Members of Norman Rockwell's family met with the Massachusetts attorney general's office last week to voice opposition to the planned sale by the Berkshire Museum of two works by the artist. The artist gave "Shuffleton's Barber Shop" and "Shaftsbury Blacksmith Shop" to the museum in ...
15-Foot Bierstadt Painting 'The Domes of Yosemite' Travels to Florida
ArtfixDaily / October 16th, 2017
The largest known painting by American master Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902) will be exhibited in Florida this winter through a special loan of the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum in Vermont. The Domes of the Yosemite, which measures nearly 10 by 15 feet, will begin the winter in Miami at ...