Local band responsible for return of $250K painting stolen from French Quarter gallery | New Orleans– caught on tape … more from the dark side of the art world.  And, is that really a $250,000 painting?  Crazy!!  Guess the French … More…

With the LA Art Show, Los Angeles Seeks a Higher Profile– nice article about the upcoming LA Art Show … this will be our 20th year as well.    

  Our latest ad in FAC featuring work by Eugene Boudin, Maurice de Vlaminck, and Sir William Russell Flint.    

Pablo Picasso’s granddaughter Marina ‘is selling her collection of his works for £190million’– A private sale — interesting.  Guess her ‘cold’ grandfather left her sitting pretty.  

Doctors Enlist Paintings to Hone Skills– guess I will have to pay more attention when looking at works of art and may even have to get a ‘second opinion’!  

A Relationship Fraught and Fruitful: on ‘Picasso/Dali, Dali/Picasso’ at the Dali Museum – On view at the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, FL. through February 16. This exhibit features rarely loaned works from more than 25 international art museums and … More…

Newsletter Archives.  Happy New Year to all.  Volume 169 of our Comments on the Art Market was released this morning.  We cover the LA Show, Stocks, Really?!, The Art Market, we Dissect a Condition Report and show images of a … More…