Pablo Picasso’s “Head of a Yong Woman” worth $27.4 million was seized from a boat docked at Corsica over the weekend by French authorities just before it was to be illegally exported to Switzerland.  The work, owned by well-known Spanish … More…

A group of street artists, known as the German Crew, take the colorless town of Palmitas and turn it into a colorful work of art.  This was a government sponsored creation, which took almost 3 months to complete, included 209 … More…

Currently on view at the Boscobel House and Gardens in Garrison, N.Y.  is an exhibition featuring 24 works by Connecticut artist Thomas P. Rossiter (1818-1871).   Featured are paintings of family and friends as well as portraits of Revolutionary War heroes and … More…

Source: Newsletter Archives – we are pleased to announce that Volume 176 of our Comments on the Art Market was just released.  In this issue we cover the upcoming Baltimore Show, Reflecting the Real (a gallery show which will open in … More…

Here is a great article on one of the most celebrated artist of the 20th century – Jean-Michel Basquiat.  Writer Bob Nickas gives a detailed history of this artist’s rise to fame and tries to answer the question: why is one … More…

Here is a nice review, by Michael Fitzgerald in the WSJ, of the Impressionist exhibition that is currently on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art … a collaborative effort between the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the National Gallery in London, and … More…

Ken Johnson zeros in on 10 masterful Impressionist works in Discovering the Impressionists: Paul Durand-Ruel and the New Painting which is currently on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.  To see them all, click HERE.