Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Fordjour Suit Settles

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Page Six has the scoop .  Background here .
Tuesday, January 11, 2022

"This is part one of a two-part series on the rise and fall of the Artist Pension Trust, founded on the premise that artists could join together to create a shared nest egg in a precarious profession." (UDPATED)

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What could go wrong? For background, start here . UPDATE: Part two is now up.
Wednesday, January 05, 2022

"I have been hacked"

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Collector loses more than $2m of NFTs overnight . Alfred Steiner (whose piece on NFTs everyone should read) says : "Everyone understan...
Thursday, December 30, 2021

"Earlier this month, Rosa was arrested in Portugal and extradited to the US."

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 Long story in the New York Post on the Christian Rosa saga .
Saturday, December 11, 2021

Warhol Foundation Cert Petition

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 Story here . Background here .
Thursday, November 18, 2021

"'Why did you do this?' Judge Sidney H. Stein asked Philbrick, to which he responded: 'The money, Your Honor.'"

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 Inigo Philbrick pleads guilty .
Wednesday, November 17, 2021

Fearless Girl in Limbo

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 New York Times story here .
Thursday, November 11, 2021

"I'll take 'Things People Freak Out About Unnecessarily' for $500 please."

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 Look what happened on "Jeopardy!" the other night.
Sunday, November 07, 2021

"To be safe, however, Whiteley has rechristened the project 'Justin Bieber Is Suing Me,' and the gallery’s Instagram page now acknowledges the parodic nature of the project."

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Sarah Cascone at artnet news:  Justin Bieber’s Lawyers Tried to Shut Down a Gallery Show by an Artist Impersonating the Pop Star to Sell $10...
Tuesday, November 02, 2021

'Fearless Girl' Gets Taken to Court"

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A brief piece in  The New Yorker . The artist, Kristen Visbal, "made twenty-five editions of 'Fearless Girl' and two artist’s p...

"Notorious Art Dealer Inigo Philbrick Set to Plead Guilty to Criminal Charges in Federal Court This Week"

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 Eileen Kinsella with the scoop .
Monday, November 01, 2021

"Inside the Rapid Rise, Alleged Frauds, and Sudden Disappearance of the Art World’s Most Wanted Man"

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Nate Freeman in Vanity Fair on the Christian Rosa story .
Tuesday, October 26, 2021

"If some version of the plan becomes law, that isn’t the only question. There would need to be rules on how the value of illiquid assets — art, for example — should be calculated"

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The New York Times point out an art angle to the proposed tax on unrealized capital gains .
Friday, October 22, 2021

"The covering also wouldn't destroy the work under VARA, and [Judge] Crawford compared it instead to removing and storing a painting from a gallery."

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Vermont Law School has prevailed in the VARA lawsuit over its decision to "permanently conceal two murals that depict Black people in a...
Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Different Bottle, Same W(h)ine

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I've mentioned before that the Deaccession Police have recently been engaged in a project of re-branding themselves as the Monetization...
Friday, October 15, 2021

"U.S. Charges Once-Rising Artist With Selling Raymond Pettibon Forgeries"

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The New York Times reports .
Thursday, September 23, 2021

"Why Joint Acquisitions May Be the Way Forward for Cash-Strapped Museums"

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Clair Selvin has a piece in ARTnews about museums co-owning works, using a Sam Gilliam jointly acquired by Dia and the Museum of Fine Arts,...
Tuesday, September 21, 2021

"It was the last outstanding criminal case initiated by the collector, Dmitry E. Rybolovlev, in his dispute with Mr. Bouvier in what has been one of the art world’s longest and most bitter entanglements"

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NYT:  Prosecutor in Geneva Drops Criminal Inquiry in $2 Billion Art Dispute .
Saturday, September 18, 2021

"The works, all duplicates from its collection, will be offered in three sales at Christie’s, starting next month"

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Katya Kazakina breaks the news that the Met is deaccessioning "219 prints and photographs to help plug a $150 million revenue shortfal...

"Net sale agreements are commonplace in the market, and the court easily found that this sophisticated collector had no legal ground to complain when the work was sold in accordance with the agreement he signed."

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  Amelia Brankov on the Steinhardt decision mentioned earlier here .