Police in southern Italy have seized almost 600 illegally excavated artifacts intended to be sold on the black market.  These well preserved artifacts included, ancient Greek ceramics ranging from a large Greek krater estimated to be worth around €150,000 to … More…

Top 20 Female Artists Fetch $1.8 Billion; Mitchell Leads – here is where the women artists stand in the rankings.  

Tokyo man discovers Sothebys auctioned his Renoir stolen in 2000 – since the work was never registered on an international database as being stolen what do you expect?  Cannot really fault the auction room.  Sad thing is the seller (who seems … More…

Warhol sketch bought for £3 on sale for £1.25m on eBay – this is pretty funny … think anyone is actually going to bid that number on eBay???  The real question: is this really an Andy Warhol and if so, who … More…

George Howard, Tullie House Museum – On view through October 13, but I do not think you need to rush over to see it … at least from this review.  

Charles Saatchi set to auction off 50 of his largest sculptures and installations – This should be an interesting sale as many of these pieces are very large and all will be sold without an estimate or reserve.  We will keep … More…

Damien Hirst’s portrait by Jonathan Yeo is an ‘ironic reflection’ – and upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery in London – Jonathan Yeo Portraits – September 11 – January 5.