Thursday, October 28, 2010

Linkage

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Jail sentence for Tracey Emin forger. Jail sentence for TV auctioneer. Fake Wyeth seized .
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

"The art world's Bernie Madoff . . ."

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" . . . and his deceptions ."

"Here’s my prayer for greater understanding of the truth behind the Barnes Foundation move"

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Philadelphia native Bob Duggan : "I admire Dr. Barnes’s original intent. He wanted to bring modern art to the masses by putting his mon...
Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Joe Simon may be done with the Warhol litigation . . . (UPDATED)

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. . . but the Warhol litigation isn't done with him. The Foundation's attorneys issued a statement today which closed as follows: ...
Monday, October 25, 2010

Fisk Fund (UPDATED 2X)

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The chess match between the judge in the Fisk case and the Tennessee Attorney General continues. The AG has now submitted a new proposal tha...

"The case is done. I can't do it anymore."

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Big news over the weekend that Joe Simon is dropping his lawsuit against the Warhol Foundation. Jason Edward Kaufman has all the details. ...
Thursday, October 21, 2010

"We actually had to read the judge's decree and agree to the project constraints"

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The Wall Street Journal had an interesting piece today on the design of the new Barnes building, and the architects' efforts to ensure ...

"Also unclear is the status of the museum's permanent collection"

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The Chelsea Art Museum is in danger of closing. The Wall Street Journal reports : "In August, [the museum's director] said she had...

When an insurance company pays a stolen art claim . . .

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. . . and the work is later found, who gets it -- the victim of the theft or the insurer? Here's a case out of Massachusetts that comes...

"It's a bizarre situation, to say the least"

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A $1 million Gris painting, stolen in St. Louis six years ago, has been found in Florida.

"It’s not common for important philanthropic prizes to go to people whose work involves criminal trespass"

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The NYT's Randy Kennedy reports that the TED conference has given its 2011 annual prize to French street artist J R.

"One expert describes the forgeries as 'gold standard'"

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The Guardian reports that "panic is spreading through the art world following the discovery of forgeries among major 20th-century pai...

"One thing’s for sure: I’ll have a captive audience."

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The New Yorker on Faith Ringgold's Rikers Island mural.

We Demand That You Not Close the Museum You Are Not Closing (a continuing series)

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Mediabistro.com: Rose Art Museum Mounts Major Exhibition .

Even though they are not fungible assets, we deaccession artworks all the time

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WNYC did a piece on the suspension of sanctions against the National Academy Museum (mentioned yesterday here ). They talk to Lee Rosenba...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Please, sir, may I have another?

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I've been distracted the last couple of days by some important -- though, as it turned out, utterly depressing -- business up in the B...
Monday, October 18, 2010

Barnes Update

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The Philadelphia Inquirer's Stephan Salisbury tells us that construction of the new Barnes museum is "proceeding at a rapid clip....

"He eventually confessed . . ."

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". . . saying his motivation for the theft was to exact revenge against the university for his perceived mistreatment while an employe...
Friday, October 15, 2010

"A chorus of confusion"

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Merryl Tisch, the chancellor of the New York Board of Regents, was on the Brian Lehrer show last week , trying to clear up the confusion aro...

"An eclectic reader's dream" (UPDATED)

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A nice review for Noah Charney's " Stealing the Mystic Lamb " in the Cleveland Plain Dealer: "Well-written and thorough,...