The top 10 novels featuring works of art – Here are Sophia Tobin’s top ten novels that drew upon works of art for inspiration.  

Gauguin painting breaks sale record at nearly $300m.  These prices are getting out of control.  Will not be long before something hits the $500M mark.  

Major US museums ban selfie stick to protect the ‘safety’ of visitors– can you really blame them?  Safety first.  

Here are some images of the historical paintings in our booth at the Naples Show:  

Whitechapel Gallery curator: ‘An art education makes people self-reliant, entrepreneurial, innovative’ – nice article about Iwona Blazwick’s career and her discovery of Hirst, among others.  

BBC iWonder – Did Rubens make big beautiful?  Here is a very interesting interactive article on Peter Paul Rubens.  

Museum admission should be free: This was published a few weeks ago, but it is worth the read … free is always good.  As the write states because museums are tax exempt, the public is already “funding” them.