Minneapolis Museum Gets Major Collection of Japanese Art
Minneapolis Museum Gets Major Collection of Japanese Art – through a combined gift/purchase, the Willard & Elizabeth Clark collection of almost 1700 works will now become part of the museum’s collection. On October 6 the museum will open: “The Audacious Eye: … More…
Orientalist Paintings and Art Deco Antiques
Orientalist Paintings and Art Deco Antiques – the Orientalist collection will be sold in Paris on June 20th … from the catalog it looks like a very interesting sale, but the question is: will all of those works find buyers? We … More…
Man whose art was stolen admits coercion
Man whose art was stolen admits coercion – Anthony Shaia, in an attempt to recover his stolen Southeast Asian art collection, learned the hard way that taking the law into your own hands is better left to law enforcement. … More…
Corcoran’s Clark Sickle-Leaf Carpet breaks world record at Auction
Corcoran’s Clark Sickle-Leaf Carpet breaks world record at Auction – While not a ‘work of art’ in the normal use of this term, one would be hard pressed not to call this Persian carpet a work of art. Estimate to bring … More…
Pushkin and Hermitage dispute over Modernist collection rumbles on
After Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin shut down the State Museum of New Western Art, Moscow, in 1948, dozens of works were split between the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and St. Petersburg’s State Hermitage Museum. With hopes to unite … More…
Christie’s pulls works after ‘forgery’ concerns
Forgery was to blame for the removal of ten works from Christie’s Latin American Auction in New York last month. Works by Ivan Serpa, Mira Schendel, Roberto Burle Marx, Ione Saldanha, Hercules Barsotti, Ubi Bava and Amilcar de Castro were all … More…
William Morris Gallery wins Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year
William Morris Gallery wins Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year – not long ago this museum, dedicated to the life and works of Victorian artist William Morris, was facing deep cuts and possible closure. After a redevelopment project that … More…
Part 2: Only in America, or maybe not? By Howard Rehs
Part 2: Only in America, or maybe not? By Howard Rehs – my third article for the AAD blog … Things Dealers Would Rather Not See At Shows! Keep in mind that this should be read in a lighthearted way — … More…