Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Picasso's alarm installer

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Another really interesting story from over the weekend: a 71-year old retired electrician seems to have ended up with nearly 300 works by P...
Monday, November 29, 2010

"The basic principle of museums in exceptional circumstances liquidating their collections is a principle that we have embraced since 2007 ..."

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" . . . and the world hasn’t come to an end. " Lots to catch up on after the holiday weekend -- most interesting, from my point of...
Wednesday, November 24, 2010

"The fate of the museum's permanent collection ... remains unclear."

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The Wall Street Journal reports that the end is near for the Chelsea Art Museum.

"The ability of San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum to avoid bankruptcy may be decided this week"

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The WSJ's "Bankruptcy Beat" has the details . The artwork appears to be safe: "San Francisco owns the ... collection of...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Yale and Peru reach tentative settlement

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But not for the first time .
Monday, November 22, 2010

Donor Friendly

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More on how New York's version of UPMIFA is more donor-favorable than most other states': "In most enactments of UPMIFA, all e...

Esmerian Arrested

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Ralph Esmerian, Chairman Emeritus of the American Folk Art Museum, charged with fraud. Background here .

"It really is about ... helping artists and musicians who are contributing to society find health care at affordable rates."

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Bloomberg Businessweek on an event at which artists could barter their work in exchange for medical care. These stories always leave out on...
Friday, November 19, 2010

Small and ad hoc

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The New York Board of Regents is establishing "a small ad hoc committee of leaders of museums" to help produce a set of deaccessi...

"All of the works on view are unattributed and unsigned."

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Interesting sounding show at MCA Denver: Orphan Paintings: Unauthenticated Art of the Russian Avant-Garde : " Orphan Paintings explor...
Thursday, November 18, 2010

In the public trust

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In the midst of a post on the announcement of the opening date of the Crystal Bridges Museum, Lee Rosenbaum mentions that one of the works ...

"The proposal would essentially eliminate the charitable tax deduction."

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" In its place, all donations made by federal taxpayers would qualify for a 15-percent tax credit. But instead of that credit going to ...
Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Gives new meaning to the phrase "photographic memory"

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Artist and NYU professor Wafaa Bilal is having a camera surgically implanted in the back of his head for several months for an art project. ...

Linkage

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Sculpture impounded . Duped dealer buys back fake . Another review of "Stealing the Mystic Lamb."

"After much fretting over the loss of three art collections to the dispersal effect of the art market last week . . ."

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". . . Los Angeles is now celebrating the endowment-enhancing power of the self-same art market."

"A picture is emerging of one of the most bizarre cases of deception in art history."

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The Guardian explains .
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

"If the Met and Brooklyn had nothing to hide, they shouldn't have hidden it."

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Lee Rosenbaum issues " a major correction " regarding the transfer of the Brooklyn Museum's costume collection to the Met a co...
Monday, November 15, 2010

NOW the Warhol litigation is done with Joe Simon (UPDATED)

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The New York Law Journal reports (but I can't find a free link at the moment) that the Warhol Foundation antitrust litigation is over. T...

Admission fees for the Smithsonian?

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The NYT's Kate Taylor reports that the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction proposal includes a recommendation that the Smithsonian begin c...

"Tax uncertainty could hurt charitable giving"

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USA Today reports . One of the issues is "the uncertain outlook for the estate tax." The article notes that "a 2004 study b...