Painting of the Day (SOLD archives): Thomas Luny’s “Engagement Between Sir George Brydges Rodney and the Spanish Squadron…”
Engagement Between Sir George Brydges Rodney and the Spanish Squadron, Commanded by Don Juan de Langara, Near Cape St. V. From our 1980s sold archives … a fabulous British naval battle scene by Thomas Luny that was painted in 1782. … More…
Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine Art Critic, Suspended From Facebook
Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine Art Critic, Suspended From Facebook– to each their own. If you are not a fan of what Jerry Saltz posts, then do not follow him. I am sure he loves all the additional PR he is … More…
Billionaire William Louis-Dreyfus Gifts $50 Million Art Collection to Harlem Kids
Billionaire William Louis-Dreyfus has spent the past fifty years creating an impressive art collection, roughly valued between $10 and $50 million. After watching a segment on 60 Minutes about the Harlem Children’s Zone, an organization devoted to helping Harlem’s youth … More…
Koons and Sherman offer up limited-addition works to US government
Contemporary artists, Jeff Koons and Cindy Sherman will donate new works in limited editions of 50 to American embassies and consulates around the world. Koons’s prints and Sherman’s photographs will be unveiled in Washington DC in April where the embassies … More…
‘Rubens and His Legacy: Van Dyck to Cézanne’ at the Royal Academy of Arts, London
Review of ‘Rubens and His Legacy: Van Dyck to Cézanne’ at the Royal Academy of Arts, London – Here is Karen Wilkin’s review of the current Rubens show … while she was not bowled over by the physical exhibition, she seemed … More…
Siamese crown stolen from Château de Fontainebleau
Several items from the Château de Fontainebleau were stolen over the weekend,, including a replica of the crown offered to Napoleon III in 1861 by the Siamese King and other eastern Asian artifacts. The raid took under seven minutes and … More…
Stolen Picasso painting seized in New York
A Picasso stolen in 2001 has been uncovered after an attempt smuggle into the U.S. from Belgium. The work was shipped in a box labeled as an “art craft” valued at $37, the actual work, an oil painting, La Coiffeuse, … More…
Comments on the Art Market – Volume 171 is OUT!
Newsletter Archives. This month we cover our upcoming SEXƎƧ Show, Stocks, Tales from the Dark Side (by Alyssa), Really! (by Amy), a few more Art Show Don’ts (by Howard) and The Art Market (by Lance & Howard). Have a … More…