Lost Gainsborough Found In Storage
The Royal Museums Greenwich (RMG) has announced that a portrait sitting in storage for over sixty years has now been attributed to the great eighteenth-century British portraitist Thomas Gainsborough. The painting is an unsigned portrait of a one-armed man in … More…
Canada Helps Preserve Indigenous Art
In March, I wrote about how police in Canada uncovered a forgery ring that specialized in art in the style of the Canadian indigenous artist Norval Morrisseau. Some called this criminal enterprise the world’s biggest art fraud conspiracy. Indigenous art … More…
Picasso’s Guernica At 86
The 1937 World’s Fair was the International Exposition held in Paris, highlighting “art and technology in modern life”. Like in previous world fairs, many countries had their own pavilions to display the scientific, artistic, and commercial progress they had made … More…
Bogus Banksy Offers Critique On Street Art
The Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) in Glasgow, Scotland’s largest city, opened a Banksy exhibition called Cut & Run on June 15th. This is Banksy’s first officially sanctioned exhibition in fourteen years, which makes it a momentous event given the … More…
Forger’s Fall: Pasquale Frongia Arrested In Italy
The Italian Carabinieri have arrested one of the most notorious Old Masters forgers in the world. Pasquale Frongia is allegedly one of the most important members of an Old Masters forgery ring put together by art dealer Giuliano Ruffini. Authorities … More…
Pope Francis Addresses The Art World
Last Friday, Pope Francis opened the doors of the Sistine Chapel to address an assembly of two hundred prominent artists. This occasion marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Vatican Museum’s modern and contemporary collection, and it mirrors a similar event … More…
Sotheby’s London Modern & Contemporary Sale
On Tuesday, June 27th, Sotheby’s London hosted its Modern and Contemporary evening sale. News outlets had reported on this particular sale months prior, mainly because of a single lot: Gustav Klimt’s portrait Lady with a Fan. The portrait is one … More…
A Kingly Collection Gets A Home
The Spanish Royal Collection is one of the greatest private art collections in the world. The Habsburg and Bourbon families amassed an incredible collection and served as patrons for several great European artists, including Diego Velázquez, Francisco de Goya, Titian, … More…
Some More Great LGBT Artists
This is the second half of my personal list of great LGBT artists (it was getting a little long, so I had to break it up). Rosa Bonheur Rosa Bonheur was a French realist painter best known for her animal … More…
Point Of Pride: The Top LGBT Artists Of All Time
It’s nearing the end of Pride Month, and I would be remiss if I didn’t write something apropos celebrating those great artists who also happen to be community members. LGBT people have always been among us, and this time of … More…
Frazetta Sets A New Record
Frank Frazetta, the legendary artist known for his extraordinary talent in the realms of comic book and fantasy art, has created numerous iconic and highly sought-after paintings throughout his career. Among his most notable works is Dark Kingdom; the painting was used … More…
National Portrait Gallery Reopens
Trafalgar Square is one of London’s most iconic public spaces. Apart from Nelson’s Column and the enormous bronze lion statues, the square is also the site of some of London’s great cultural institutions, including the National Gallery and the recently-reopened … More…
Art Thieves Nabbed After Twenty Years
For over twenty years, a ring of thieves terrorized museums and antique shops across the United States, stealing millions of dollars worth of valuables. Gerard Karam, the attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced last week that his office … More…
A Dazzling Diamond
Get ready for some dazzling diamond news! The highly anticipated Eternal Pink debuted at Sotheby’s New York and sold for an impressive $34.8 million w/p, just a bit below its estimated value of $35 million (or $3.31M per carat). This … More…
Go For The Gold: When The Olympics Awarded Art Medals
Next year, Paris will host the Summer Olympics. The location is fitting given that Paris was also the host city for the Olympics one century earlier, hosting the 1924 games. A hundred years apart, these two games will probably look … More…
Christie’s London Impressionist & Modern Art Sale
On Friday, June 30th, Christie’s London hosted a sale of impressionist and modern art, featuring a wide variety of works from Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot through Carlos Nadal and Charles Malle. Many of the lots were works by late-nineteenth and twentieth-century modernists, … More…