A recent article in The Wall Street Journal linked the illicit trade of looted antiquities to a prominent art family with galleries in New York and Geneva. Well, blasting the allegations as an “outrageous libel” on Monday, the dealer at … More…

  Here is a nice story from the Dark Side of the Art World.  Spanish police have recovered 3 of the 5 Francis Bacon paintings that were stolen back in 2015. According to the article, a “team” (not sure what … More…

  It appears that a major exhibition of Amedeo Modigliani’s work, at the Doge’s Palace in Genoa, contained a number of fakes. What?  According to reports, Carlo Pepi, a Tuscan art critic and collector, expressed his doubts about the authenticity … More…

  Back in 2015, a judge rules that the Thyssen-Bornemisza Foundation had good title to Pissarro’s “Rue Saint-Honoré, Après-midi, Effet de Pluie” and the grandchildren of Lilly Cassirer had no claim. Cassirer, a German Jew, was forced to sell the … More…

Some are now claiming this was just a stunt, but was it?  If not, it is another sad incident in the art world.  Here, a young woman loses her balance while taking a selfie and damages $200,000 worth of art … More…

  Back in March, burglars broke into the Bode Museum and stole a coin. Not just some coin, but the Canadian “Big Maple Leaf” coin … and this is one big coin: three-centimeter (1.2-inch) thick gold coin, with a diameter … More…

  The Max Stern Art Restitution Project claims to have discovered another work that the Nazis forced Stern to liquidate … Andreas Achenbach’s “Sicilian Landscape”. On the other hand, Wolfgang Peiffer (the current owner), who bought the work at a London auction … More…