Thursday, April 30, 2009

These Days, Every Potato Counts

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Josh Baer : "Solange Herter has sued Christie’s and Lisa Klapstock seeking title to a Calder collage that he alleges was stolen from h...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Put a Bow On It

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The lawsuit over Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen's "Collar and Bow" sculpture has settled. Mike Boehm has the story he...

"Opportunistic litigation"

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When I first heard about Clint Arthur’s class action lawsuit against LA MOCA last summer, I wrote : "Leaving aside the question of wha...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

"We're trying to figure out what exactly applies and what has taken place in the intervening 110 years"

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The Chicago Tribune : "Ramping up his campaign against the Art Institute of Chicago's pending 50-percent general admission increas...
Monday, April 27, 2009

Out from under the aegis (UPDATED)

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Lee Rosenbaum makes an interesting find in the Montclair Art Museum bookstore. She also learns that the Hirshhorn is selling three Eakins p...

"Topic A, B, C, and D"

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The Philadelphia Inquirer's Stephan Salisbury previews this week's annual meeting of the American Association of Museums: "de...

Loose Talk

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Richard Lacayo reviews two new books on the 1911 theft of Mona Lisa : "Unfortunately, the authors of both books have decided to pad o...

"[Sellers] just aren’t into gambling anymore and auctions are no longer a sure thing"

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Carol Vogel had a piece in yesterday's New York Times on the increase in private sales (at the expense of auctions): "For many se...

"Who Should Own the World's Antiquities?"

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Hugh Eakin examines the question in the New York Review of Books.
Saturday, April 25, 2009

Montclairity

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Lee Rosenbaum heard back from the AAMD on the Montclair deaccessionings. They say everything is fine: "Placing funds derived from dea...
Thursday, April 23, 2009

"What appears to be a misguided lawsuit"

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The LA Times had an update today on Clint Arthur's lawsuit against Louis Vuitton over the Murakami prints he bought in Jan. 2008 at the...

"There is a good deal of non-malevolent wishful thinking on the part of members of the art world"

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Inspired by the news that Italy paid $4.2 million last year to buy a small wooden crucifix that may (or may not be) by Michelangelo, ARCA...

"A museum dedicated to the artist Henry Varnum Poor won’t open here for years, but already its collection is shrinking"

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Eve Kahn has the story in today's New York Times. Apparently, the town of Ramapo, N.Y. paid $1.3 million ("including $500,000 fro...

Some Data

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As a follow up to their interview with the Art Loss Register's Chris Marinello, the Art Market Monitor offers "a little bonus dat...

"The pie is shrinking"

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The Wall Street Journal has a story today on the search by "financially strapped" colleges for ways to find "the cash for ur...

Does eBay reduce looting? (UPDATED)

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Derek Fincham points to an article in Archaeology magazine arguing that, contrary to what we might have expected, the rise of eBay has act...

"Can you legitimize some of the better street art without opening the door to any run of the mill, mindless graffiti?"

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More of Richard Lacayo's conversation with ICA Boston director Jill Medvedow. Previous post here .

"When people think of stolen art, you think of famous cases and what ends up in movies. It seems the bulk of stolen items are fairly low value."

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The Art Market Monitor interviews Art Loss Register General Counsel Chris Marinello .
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

What's the AAMD position on deaccessioning to resolve a lawsuit? (UPDATED)

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The San Francisco Chronicle has the latest on the complicated Friede family lawsuits . Among other things, "[de Young] museum official...

Reijtenbagh Race (UPDATED)

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Reuters reports that a second lawsuit has been filed involving Dutch businessman Louis Reijtenbagh's art collection -- this one in Amst...