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Law enforcement officials descended today on a Manchester, Conn., house, digging in the yard of Robert Gentile, an alleged mobster who officials suspect may have information about the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art theft.Frances Drive was choked with unmarked police…
International dealers have joined forces to lobby against potential US legislation that could have a “significant and negative impact on the art market in New York”. The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), the Society of London Art Dealers (Slad)…
Mark Rothko’s fiery “Orange, Red, Yellow” sold for a record $86.9 million at Christie’s in New York last night in the biggest-ever postwar and contemporary art auction.Artist records were also set for Jackson Pollock, Gerhard Richter, Barnett Newman, Alexander Calder…
Roy Lichtenstein’s “Sleeping Girl” sold for $44.9 million at Sotheby’s in New York last night, a record for the artist, in a $266.6 million contemporary-art auction that was almost a third smaller by value than Christie’s the night before.Records were…
Artists who “appropriate” the work of others are increasingly coming into conflict as a slew of recent cases involving artists including Shepard Fairey, Ryan McGinley and Thierry Guetta (“Mr Brainwash”) demonstrates. Now, in the Court of Appeals for the Second…
A few months after the abstract painter Richard Diebenkorn died in 1993 his family visited Knoedler & Company, the gallery on the Upper East Side of Manhattan that had long been his dealer. His wife, Phyllis; his daughter, Gretchen; and…
We are brought up to think that when we have earned leisure and rest ... we may go forth and cross oceans and mountains and see on Italian soil the primal substance, the Platonic ‘idea’ of our consoling dreams and…
Sotheby’s reported a first-quarter loss as auction sales dropped 29 percent from a year earlier.The New York auctioneer lost $10.7 million, or 16 cents a share, compared with a profit of $2.4 million, or 3 cents a share, a year…
The never ending Second Avenue Subway project has announced that famous local artist Chuck Close is going to be making a massive series of permanent mosaics for the subway line's 86th Street station. All in all the mosaics will bring…
Some of the greatest art in the world is public art, including Michelangelo's David, the fountains of Bernini and Rodin's Burghers of Calais. Those are lofty masterpieces. A few notches down in sublimity but beloved of locals and tourists alike…
TRAVERSE CITY, MI.- “Homage to the Creative Spirit: The Paintings of Jenness Cortez” by Baylor University art historian Karen Rechnitzer Pope (AMI Publishers) has been named recipient of the 2012 Independent Publishers “Outstanding Book of the Year” award. According to…
Few people in the world know as much about the life and art of Georgia O’Keeffe as Barbara Buhler Lynes, who resigned Friday after years as curator and director of the research center at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa…
The Helsinki City Board, a vetting committee of 15 municipal politicians selected to consider proposals for the Helsinki City council, voted eight to seven against putting the Guggenheim project forward for the council's consideration."The City Board rejects the project" it…
It's a pleasure to look at Alex Katz's paintings, and at the people and places in them; the people can show a restrained kind of pleasure themselves, though they don't often look back at you. Instead they look aloof, sometimes…
A 1941 Picasso to be offered at Sotheby’s tomorrow night with a $20 million to $30 million presale estimate was damaged while in the care of New York’s Acquavella Galleries, according to a lawsuit filed by the insurer of its…
The artist Lucian Freud, whose sitters included the Queen, Kate Moss and a naked JobCentre supervisor nicknamed ‘Big Sue’, left almost £96 million in his will – the largest sum ever by a British artist.The figure is testimony to the record-breaking…
Sotheby’s (BID) managed a record price and sale tally at last night’s auction in New York, even as 15 lots went unsold.The star was one of Edvard Munch’s four versions of “The Scream,” which set a record for a work…
New collectors and old poured into Christie’s Rockefeller Center sales room on Tuesday night for the start of the big spring auctions. They may have come hoping for fireworks but instead sat through an anemic sale devoid of the kind…
Contemporary art fairs have in the last decade become so routine that they must work to give visitors unexpected or memorable experiences. Think food from a trendy Brooklyn pizzeria, a talk by French philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman on Andre Malraux’s “imaginary…
The art market made a quantum leap this week when “The Scream,” a pastel drawn by Edvard Munch in 1895, sold for just under $120 million — $119,922,500 to be precise.Some will argue that the pastel is such an unusual…
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