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British Museum & BP Back In Business
The exterior facade of the British Museum in London.

British Museum & BP Back In Business

Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in. As if the British Museum’s reputation couldn’t get any worse, its leadership made an incredibly controversial decision that led to at least one of its trustees resigning. Earlier … More…

Update Up North: The Morrisseau Forgery Trial
A painting in an indigenous Canadian style of several blue and red creatures on a yellow background.

Update Up North: The Morrisseau Forgery Trial

A Canadian court has sentenced the main perpetrator of one of the largest art fraud conspiracies. Back in March, I wrote about how police in Ontario had arrested a group of people for creating and selling thousands of artworks being … More…

British Museum Ends The Year On A Low Note
The exterior facade of the British Museum in London.

British Museum Ends The Year On A Low Note

The British Museum has not had the best year. The end of 2023 cannot come fast enough for the museum administration and its supporters. 2023 saw the museum plagued by scandals, the most devastating of which involved a senior staff … More…

Bonhams New York Hartman Collection
A post-impressionist landscape of two stone cliffs on both banks of a river in southern France.

Bonhams New York Hartman Collection

Alan Hartman owned Hartman Rare Art on New York’s Madison Avenue for decades until his passing earlier this year. He was considered an expert in Chinese jade carvings, East Asian antiquities, and English silver. When his widow Simone consigned their … More…

Lyft-ed Murillo: Old Master Lost In Miami
A seventeenth-century self-portrait of the Spanish painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.

Lyft-ed Murillo: Old Master Lost In Miami

I’ve left stuff in taxis before. So have a lot of people I know, from wallets to umbrellas to phones. But I think if I were in a cab with a million-dollar painting, I wouldn’t let it out of my … More…

Paris Prepares For Olympics
The western facade of Notre-Dame de Paris

Paris Prepares For Olympics

Paris will host the Olympic games next summer, and the city’s top spots, particularly its cultural institutions, are battening down the hatches. The city already announced that the famous riverside booksellers, the bouquinistes, will be relocated for the opening ceremonies. … More…

Christie’s London Josefowitz Rembrandt Collection
An etching of Saint Jerome reading in the wilderness next to a lion.

Christie’s London Josefowitz Rembrandt Collection

At the end of the auction marathon on Thursday, December 7th, was another installment from the Sam Josefowitz Collection. The sale in London consisted of sixty-nine lots, all “graphic masterpieces” by the Dutch Golden Age artist Rembrandt van Rijn. Every … More…

Bouvier Affair At An End (Maybe)
Leonardo_da_Vinci_or_Boltraffio_(attrib)_Salvator_Mundi_circa_1500

Bouvier Affair At An End (Maybe)

The Bouvier affair has been one of the most prolific feuds the art world has experienced in the past ten years. We’ve been covering it since it first started in 2015. And now it seems like it’s finally coming to … More…

Bonhams Paris Impressionist & Modern Sale
Bernard Buffet's seascape showing a large yacht moored in the harbor next to a thin lighthouse on the right

Bonhams Paris Impressionist & Modern Sale

Thursday, December 7th, saw a wave of action across the London and Paris auction houses. Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Bonhams all hosted sales ranging from antiquities to Old Masters to early twentieth-century work. It also marked the last day at the … More…