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Digital Catalogue Raisonnes Underway for Fitz Henry Lane and Other 19th Century American Painters
New York Times / August 15th, 2015
A consortium of museums will present a new website of works by famed 19th-century marine artist Fitz Henry Lane next month. Fitzhenrylaneonline.org is one of several catalogue raisonnes, those exhaustive tomes that document an artist's oeuvre, in the works for American artists. So far, ...
ARTFIXdaily Holiday Break - E-Newsletter Service Suspended Aug. 10-14
ArtfixDaily / August 5th, 2015
ARTFIXdaily will be on holiday and our offices closed the week of Aug. 9. There will be no e-newsletter service or promoted content from Aug. 10-14. The e-newsletter will resume on Aug. 17. ArtGuild members may continue to post press releases, events, inventory and blogs to ARTFIXdaily ...
U.S. Slips Ahead of China in Global Art Auctions
Art Newspaper / August 5th, 2015
China has lost its place as the world leader of public auctions of works of art, according to a report by Artprice that was released to the AFP. Fuelled by major sales in New York, the US has overtaken the Asian giant, which is now followed closely by the UK, reports The Art Newspaper. This is ...
U.S. Judge Denies Extradition of Man Sought by Poland in Nazi-Looted Art Case
ABC News / August 4th, 2015
A judge ruled Monday that a Russian art dealer living in Manhattan will not face criminal extradition to Poland over an inherited painting that was stolen during World War II. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan ruled that Alexander Khochinskiy should not face criminal charges ...
French Authorities Seize Smuggled $27 Million Picasso in Corsica
Guardian / August 4th, 2015
A Picasso painting en route to Switzerland and valued at over $27 million was seized by French authorities from a boat docked on the island of Corsica. Documents produced by the ship's captain show that the work was deemed "unexportable" by Spanish custom officials. Recently, a Spanish ...
New Book Delves Into the Economics of Running an Art Gallery
Bloomberg / August 3rd, 2015
The English edition of German author Magnus Resch's controversial Management of Art Galleries is weeks away from release. The book stirred some ire in Germany with its harsh look at the statistics of art dealing along with some intruiging and, at times, outlandish recommendations for making ...
British Art Dealing Couple Decamps to France Amid Claims of Fraud
Independent / August 3rd, 2015
Police are investigating claims of fraud and theft involving a gallery run by a pair of prominent British art dealers who are believed to have sold their business and moved to France, reports the Independent. Buyers are said to chasing more than half a million pounds of sales including ...
Private Search Continues for Missing Son of Art Miami's Nick Korniloff and Pamela Cohen
ArtfixDaily / July 31st, 2015
Perry Cohen and Austin Stephanos are two 14-year-old Florida boys who went missing during a fishing trip on July 24. Cohen is the stepson of Nick Korniloff, founder of Art Miami, and the son of his wife Pamela Cohen, director of marketing for Art Miami. The teens were last seen ...
Ronald Lauder Enlists Lobbyists to Help Pressure Museums to Give Up Nazi-Looted Art
O'Dwyer / July 28th, 2015
Billionaire Ron Lauder has hired American Continental Group to aid his mission in recovering Nazi era-confiscated art from museums and returning the works to the heirs of their owners. The scion of the Lauder cosmetics fortune is an avid art collector who is active in Jewish affairs ...
Lawsuit Brews Over Wyeth's Ice Storm
Courthouse News Service / July 26th, 2015
A former TV news anchor from Tennessee is suing a Japanese gallery over the sale of Andrew Wyeth's painting "Ice Storm." The Wyeth sold for $820,000 at Christie's in May, reports Courthouse News Service. Plaintiff Reed Galin says he had a one-third interest in the Wyeth and was never paid. ...
Interview with the Tour de France's Land Art Legend
Bycycling / July 27th, 2015
Renowned French artist Pierre Duc has created some exceptional "land art" with his collaborator Thierry Gallibour for this year's Tour de France. His large-scale works incorporate and manipulate natural materials, often stretched across open fields, and are best seen from the air. Duc is ...
Marcel Breuer's Stillman House with Calder Mural at Auction
ArtfixDaily / July 23rd, 2015
The Marcel Breuer-designed Stillman House, in bucolic Litchfield, Connecticut, will be offered by Wright at a Design Masterworks auction on Nov. 19. Considered a masterpiece of modern architecture and art—with murals designed by Alexander Calder and Xanti Schawinsky—the 2.8-acre property ...
Fraudster Brugnara Claims He Will "Perish" in Jail, Files Motion for Acquittal
Courthouse News Service / July 22nd, 2015
San Francisco-based convicted swindler Luke Brugnara, who is serving time for fraud, wants to fire his laywers, get bail to recuperate, and hire new counsel. Brugnara is under federal prosecution for taking and not paying for $11 million in fine art, including a $2 million Degas bronze that ...
Tech Start-Up Aims to Catalogue All Art on the Market
Bloomberg / July 21st, 2015
A tech start-up wants to catalogue every work of art available on the market with a digital database that logs ownership. Verisart was co-founded by Robert Norton, previously chief executive officer of two online art-commerce sites, Saatchi ...
Texas Man Hopes His $90 Thrift Shop Find is a Multi-Million Dollar Sigmar Polke
ABC News / July 20th, 2015
Texan Ray Riley picked up a painting priced at $90 at his local thrift shop. When he later examined it out the frame, Riley found a signature -- Sigmar Polke, an artist whose work reached a record $27.1 million at auction in June. Riley is a regular browser at The Guild Shop in Houston and in ...
Artist and Empire at Tate Britain Boldly Explores Imperial Visual Culture
Guardian / July 20th, 2015
Some 200 works from 55 lenders will be featured in a fall show at Tate Britain that was carefully researched for four years. Artist and Empire, on view from November 25, 2015 - April, 10, 2016, aims to present a broad artistic view of British Imperialism, including the painful parts. Elizabeth ...
Art, Offerings in Leonardo DiCaprio Gala Auction Set to Raise Major Funds for Environmental Causes
Forbes / July 19th, 2015
At a private villa in St. Tropez on July 22, a massive auction organized by the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation will offer up a host of fine art, jewelry, properties, goods and experiences to raise funds for environmental conservation. The first edition of the event raised $25 million last year, ...
Counter-protesters Escalate 'Kimono Controversy' at MFA Boston
Boston Globe / July 19th, 2015
Protests that erupted this month over 'Kimono Wednesdays" at the Musuem of Fine Arts, Boston, have spurred other voices in support of the new event. Visitors were encouraged to "channel their inner Camille Monet" and don a kimono similar to the artist's wife in Claude Monet’s painting “La ...
British Museum Could Loan £1bn Worth of Objects to Abu Dhabi Museum
Art Newspaper / July 16th, 2015
The British Museum could possibly loan around 500 collection objects worth about one billion pounds to the Gulf nation of Abu Dhabi. Works earmarked for the Zayed National Museum for possible loan include an Assyrian relief from Nimrud, the Banquet Scene (645–635BC), which was ...
Planned German Cultural Protection Law Stirs Controversy
Deutsche Welle / July 15th, 2015
Germany is planning to strictly regulate the international sale of art and artifacts deemed of significant cultural value. German Culture Minister Monika Grütters stands behind the draft cultural protection act, despite hefty criticism from the art world. "No one has the right to tell me what I ...