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Grounded: the great art treasures that no longer go out on the road – guess if you want to see Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring you will have to hop on a plane; it has been deemed too fragile to … More…

Aspen Art Museum Readies New Building – The Aspen Art Museum is now trying to become a Contemporary Art powerhouse … guess everyone wants a piece of the action.  

D.C. judge grills lawyers for the Corcoran and Save the Corcoran over breakup plan – interesting article on the proposed breakup of the Corcoran.  Kind of sad to think that one of our oldest cultural institutions (founded in 1869 by William … More…

Detroit Museum Raises Nearly $27 Million to Help Stave Off Sale – nice to see that some of the ‘locals’ are trying to help.  

Christie’s Sales Rise to $4.6 Billion Led by New Buyers – both main salerooms reported record results for the first 6 months of the year.  Christie’s had a total of £2.7B ($4.6B) … of that total, £799.9M ($1.36B) came from Postwar and … More…

Court seems to boost claim to ‘Adam’ and ‘Eve’ at Norton Simon Museum – here is an interesting story concerning a pair of paintings by Lucas Cranach that are currently in the collection of Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum of Art.

Egyptian statue Sekhemka sells for nearly £16m – another museum sold an important work from their collection to fund an expansion … even the family of the original donor will get a piece (it was donated back in 1880 by the … More…

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