Monday, July 30, 2012

"Officials hope that the vast storage facility, which is expected to be tax exempt, will encourage collectors and corporations to stockpile their art in Beijing."

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Beijing's getting a freeport .
Friday, July 27, 2012

Such a tragedy

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The Barnes has had more visitors in its first two months in Philadelphia than it did in all of 2009 in Merion . The Usual Suspects will do...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Confidence Game

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I mentioned this in passing the other day in discussing the Detroit situation , but I thought I'd flesh it out a little bit here. One ...

"What is the fair market value of an object that cannot be sold?"

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Been meaning to mention Patricia Cohen's front-page story on the IRS's attempt to collect $29 million in estate taxes on a Rauschen...
Monday, July 23, 2012

Were the Hall Monitors right about Jeffrey Deitch?

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Ed Winkleman doesn't seem to think so.
Sunday, July 22, 2012

Balancing Priorities in Detroit

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An interesting pair of stories out of Detroit this week. First, an article in the New York Times about the city's massive financial p...
Friday, July 20, 2012

"I’m convinced that if these artists were alive today, they would thank me."

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Patricia Cohen had an interesting article in yesterday's Times on a one-time art forger with a new business model:  "openly sellin...

Only Wrong When Brandeis Does It (a continuing series)

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Carol Vogel reports in today's Times that the Prado is lending a "major" collection of about 100 paintings from its permanent...

"Topless Woman Found"

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" Details Sketchy ."
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

If you consign a work to a gallery, and the gallery goes bankrupt, can the gallery's creditors reach your work? (UPDATED)

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Answer:  yes, according to a recent Southern District ruling, involving the Salander-O'Reilly bankruptcy, discussed here . The holding...
Thursday, July 12, 2012

"[T]here is no doubt about who the big winner is: the general public, which now can enjoy unprecedented access to a peerless cultural patrimony"

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Noted philistine Martin Filler -- writing in that leading organ of philistinism The New York Review of Books -- says the new Barnes is ...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

"Any rational assessment of the firing must take into account the practical financial issues in play "

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Ed Winkleman: In Search of a More Nuanced Discussion about the Changes at MOCA. Related from Greg Allen :  "I imagine that one of the...
Monday, July 09, 2012

New Issue of Journal of Art Crime

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The Spring/Summer 2012 issue of ARCA's Journal of Art Crime is out. My column this time looks at whether a state can make otherwise h...
Saturday, July 07, 2012

"The suit is the third filed by an art collector involving a painting sold by the gallery, which closed last year."

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Another Knoedler lawsuit .
Thursday, July 05, 2012

"The Pennsylvania courts ruled repeatedly that private interests like the Friends have no standing to challenge the administration of a trust."

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" Whatever the fallout from Camp’s statements, it seems hard to imagine that this development would alter any court’s analysis of the s...
Tuesday, July 03, 2012

More on the lack of financial problems at the Barnes

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So I went back and looked at Judge Ott's opinion -- his first one, from January 2004 -- to see what it had to say about the Barnes'...

Apparently it's a thing now to deny that financial problems led to the Barnes move (UPDATED)

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For example .  Apparently the Friends of the Barnes have filed yet another petition to reopen the case on these grounds. I thought it was...
Monday, July 02, 2012

"The way it was stolen was unusual. So was the way it was returned."

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The Dali drawing stolen from Adam Lindemann's new gallery last week has been " mysteriously returned " -- by Express Mail, fr...

"What is it about Pablo Picasso that attracts vandals?"

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Eric Felten explores.

And We're Back

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Seems that while I was away Park West Galleries was involved in another lawsuit.  This one involved the Muhammad Ali Center, and quickly set...