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Jewish Heirs Sue Germany Over $226 Million Medieval Treasure
ArtfixDaily / February 24th, 2015
The heirs of Jewish art dealers who sold a trove of medieval treasures to the Nazis are suing the German state in a U.S. lawsuit. Gestapo founder Herman Goering orchestrated the sale in 1935 with four Jewish art dealers who received millions of dollars. The collection is now thought to be worth ...
UK's National Gallery Staff Riled by Rep's Suspension
BBC / February 23rd, 2015
A dispute between staff and management of the National Gallery in London has worsened since a senior rep for the workers' union was suspended. About 200 members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union are planning another walk-out over five days following a strike on Feb. 2. ...
Collector Ron Pizzuti Opens Art Boutique Hotel in Ohio
ArtfixDaily / February 23rd, 2015
Renowned art collector Ron Pizzuti is behind a new luxury-boutique art hotel opening in Columbus, Ohio. The hotel features art from Pizzuti's private collection along with local and world-class contemporary art from emerging artists. Partnering with upscale, design-focused international hotel ...
Barnes Foundation Discovers Two Hidden Cezanne Sketches
Barnes Foundation / February 22nd, 2015
Two watercolors that art collector Dr. Alfred Barnes bought 90 years ago for $100 have yielded an unexpected surprise. Conservtors at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia recently removed the frames from the watercolors depicting the landscape of southern France. On the reverse side two ...
Princeton Receives $300 Million Manuscript Collection
Princeton / February 19th, 2015
Princeton University has acquired an extraordinary collection of some 2,500 rare printed books and manuscripts valued at $300 million, the largest gift ever to the university. Musician, musicologist, bibliophile and philanthropist William H. Scheide, a 1936 Princeton University alumnus who ...
Construction Begins on $40 Million Museum of the American Arts & Crafts in Florida
My Fox Tampa Bay / February 18th, 2015
Florida businessman and art collector Rudy Ciccarello has endowed the Two Red Roses Foundation, a non-profit educational institution, with extraordinary gifts to foster an appreciation of America's Arts & Crafts Movement. Now, the foundation has a new Museum of the American Arts & ...
Book Claims New Leads in the $500 Million Gardner Art Heist
NY Daily News / February 17th, 2015
When thieves posed as cops and stole $500 million worth of masterpieces from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990, the world was robbed of the only seacape by Rembrandt, Vermeer's gem "The Concert," and a glistening portrait by Manet, along with 10 other works. A quarter century ...
Boston in Search of Three Leaders for its Major Museums
Boston Globe / February 17th, 2015
Boston is losing three museum directors with big shoes to fill. Each one, including Malcolm Rogers of the Museum of Fine Arts; Anne Hawley of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; and Thomas Lentz of the Harvard Art Museums, has resigned within the year, after decades of leadership and ...
Legal Limbo Keeps Gurlitt Art Trove from Swiss Museum
NY Times / February 17th, 2015
It's been three months since the Kunstmuseum Bern said it would accept a bequest of 1,600 works from the late Cornelius Gurlitt, son of a Nazi-era art dealer. But the gift of works by the likes of Monet, Manet, Gauguin, Renoir, Rodin, Matisse and Pissarro might not journey to its new home ...
Can Computer Algorithms Authenticate Jackson Pollock Paintings?
Arstechnica / February 16th, 2015
Can a computer decipher elements of style to determine genuine works by an artist as opposed to forgeries? A computer scientist at Lawrence Technological University thinks so. Lior Shamir has taken a series of image analysis algorithms to show that a computer can distinguish between real and ...
Broad Museum Preview Tour Draws a Crowd
LA Times / February 16th, 2015
A one-day sneak peek at the under-construction Broad museum in downtown Los Angeles drew a who's who of about 3,000 art world figures and media on Sunday. Scheduled to open Sept. 20, the museum's milky white honeycomb architecture filtered in an energizing light. Museum founder Eli Broad said ...
Auction Record for Ai Weiwei's Zodiac Heads in London
Business Times / February 15th, 2015
A near-billion-dollar two weeks of Impressionist, modern, post-war, and contemporary art sales ended in London with an auction record for Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei.
A Sweet Gift for the Norman Rockwell Museum
NY Times / February 12th, 2015
The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass., has announced a gift of one of the artist's most recognizable--and sweet--works.
Cy Twombly Tops $178.4 Million Christie's Sale
LA Times / February 12th, 2015
One of Cy Twombly's scribbly "blackboard" works fetched $30 million to lead Christie's auction in London.
Buyer of Record-Setting Georgia O'Keeffe Revealed
artlyst / February 11th, 2015
After an iconic white flower painting ranked the work of Georgia O'Keeffe at the top of the market for any female artist, mystery shrouded the identity of the buyer.
Accused Art Thief Escapes Federal Custody
Courthouse News / February 10th, 2015
Accused art thief Luke Brugnara has escaped a federal building in San Francisco and is currently on the lam.
Italian Police Seize 'Lost' da Vinci
Telegraph / February 10th, 2015
A long-lost painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci was confiscated from a bank vault in Switzerland after Italian police said it had been exported illegally and was in danger of being sold for up to £90 million. Swiss police, acting on a request by their Italian counterparts, ...
Louvre Abu Dhabi Acquires Gilbert Stuart Portrait of Washington
Wall Street Journal / February 9th, 2015
Scheduled to open this fall, the Jean Nouvel-designed Louvre Abu Dhabi has already amassed a collection of 300 objects along with another 300 works on loan from the French government. A just-announced acquisition may seem unlikely: an 1822 portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart will ...
Gauguin Painting Sells Privately for $300 Million
NY Times / February 8th, 2015
An iconic Paul Gauguin painting of two Tahitian girls was sold privately by a Swiss collection for a reported $300 million, ranking it among the highest prices ever
Picasso's Granddaughter to Sell Artist's Work
NY Times / February 5th, 2015
Marina Picasso, a granddaughter of the artist, plans to sell inherited works from her 10,000-piece collection--privately, on her own.