According to Katya Kazakina’s article on Bloomberg the Frieze Art Fair is doing well.  Now I know the headlines probably make most of us think … of course it is ok for those billionaires who buy at the high end … More…

Here is a link to Jonathan Jones’s review of the Giacometto exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery which opens tomorrow and runs through January 10.  Included are a series of portraits he did of Yvonne Poiraudeau (called Caroline) that he … More…

The portraits of Francisco de Goya y Lucientes are the subject of an exhibition at The National Gallery, London (running through January 10).  For Richard Cork’s full review, click HERE.    

Currently on view at the Tate Britain is a retrospective of Frank Auerbach’s work … an artist, who at 84, has outlived his friends and fellow artists — Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud.  For the full review, click HERE.  

Another story of Nazi looted art that was returned to its rightful owners and how one museum made their loss a gain.  For the full story, click HERE.  

Nice article in The New York Times by Scott Reyburn on the art world and what some people feel is a lack of transparency … and at certain levels, especially in the upper end of the auction world, they are … More…

John Wilmerding dissects John Singleton Copley’s Portrait of Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Mifflin in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.  For the full article, click HERE.