Catalogue Raisonné Emile Munier (1840 – 1895) Playing with the Kittens Armistice This project is an Internet based checklist of the life and works of the 19th century French Academic artist Emile Munier. Images and available documentation will be added and … More…

Catalogue Raisonné Antoine Blanchard (1910 – 1988) Paris – Moulin Rouge St. Germain des Pres, Paris   This project is an Internet based checklist of the life and works of the 20th century French artist Antoine Blanchard (Marcel Masson). Images and … More…

While scouring online catalogs, Robert Mulraine saw a portrait that caught his eye.  He passed the image on to his son James (an art conservator) and they acquired the painting for £2,600. The two showed the work to Hugh Belsey, the art historian and world … More…

While this is not an article about the art market, it does relate since they talk about the money …siphoned out of 1Malaysia Development Bhd., the Malaysian state fund known as 1MDB.  Jho Low, who many consider the main figure … More…

Another one for our Dark Side of the Art World … seems like Nancy Wiener, a New York antiquities dealer, is headed to court for buying, smuggling, laundering and selling … millions of dollars’ worth of antiquities stolen from Afghanistan, Cambodia, China, India, … More…

While this illustrates the power of social media, it also shows that in order for it to really work you need a large number of followers.  Mr. Gorvy has over 54,000 followers and a post he made about 4 weeks ago, featuring … More…

Guess I missed the opening in 2014 and now will never have a chance to see the unusual objects on display.  According to the articles:  The news didn’t come without warning. On December 6th, the museum sent out an appeal … More…