After a long legal battle as to the ownership, the Gurlitt collection will go on view in Bern and Bonn between November 2017 and March 2018.  The true provenance of many works in the collection, which includes paintings by Matisse, … More…

Well, I cannot agree that it is a movement I never hear of … seem to remember it being a big part of my art history education.  However, if you weren’t lucky enough to take a series of art history classes, … More…

Is Grant Wood’s famous painting serious or comic? It is this ambiguity that has helped made it one of the most parodied images in art history, writes Fisun Güner. American after the Fall: Painting in the 1930’s opens at the … More…

Kelly Crow begins her article with: The art market sank into a deeper slump last year, with London-based auction house Christie’s International PLC saying Wednesday it sold £4 billion, or $5.4 billion, of art last year, a 27% decline.. And this is … More…

According to Katya Kazakina’s recent article on Bloomberg, Oprah Winfrey sold her Gustav Klimt (which she bought in 2006 for $87.9M) through Larry Gagosian for $150M. Source: Oprah Said to Snag $150 Million Selling Klimt to Chinese Buyer – Bloomberg  

Now this is really impressive.  The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced that 375,000 images from their collection (all of which are in the public domain) can now be accessed, downloaded and used free of charge.  Since they were free, … More…