Detroit bankruptcy puts $2.5 billion city art collection under threat as legal battle gathers pace – more on this mess.  

Art thieves steal ‘unusual’ Van Gogh drawing – more stolen artwork … this time 12 pieces were taken in just 2 minutes from the Van Buuren Museum near Brussels.  

Christie’s to Auction a Dealer’s Legendary Collection – 5 years after his death, the Jan Krugier’s personal collection (and inventory from his gallery) will be sold in November.  Included are a number of works by Picasso.  

Romanian’s Tale Has Art World Fearing the Worst  – this one makes me sick!  Some people are just sooooo stupid.  

Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953-1966 | de Young Museum – a review, by David Littlejohn, of the current Diebenkorn exhibition at the de Young Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.  The show runs through September 29.  

All the Americas in Tulsa | Thomas Gilcrease Museum – Gilcrease was a self-made oilman whose first purchase, in 1922, was Daniel Ridgway Knight’s Rural Courtship … one of the most widely reproduced paintings by the artist.  His story makes for … More…