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…
Ingres: A Painter’s Own Worst Enemy
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was one of France’s great nineteenth-century master painters. He is often regarded as a Neoclassicist, but his work often transcended categories and labels. He was a bastion of artistic conservatism, often opposing the passion and sensuality of the … More…
A Totally Bananas Lawsuit
Not long ago, I wrote about Maurizio Cattelan’s absurdist conceptual work Comedian, consisting of a banana duct taped to a wall. Upon seeing a licensed version of the work displayed at the Leeum Museum in South Korea, one visitor decided … More…
Garbage In, Garbage Out: Miami Beach Sues Artist Over Shoddy Work
As much as many of us may want to, punishing an artist over bad art can be very difficult. But Sarah Morris is now discovering that it is possible to do just that. The city of Miami Beach, Florida, is … More…
Sotheby’s Buys The Breuer
945 Madison Avenue, commonly called the Breuer Building, may not be the tallest in Manhattan, but it’s certainly one of the most distinct. Built between 1964 and 1966 based on brutalist designs by Marcel Breuer, the Breuer Building was built … More…
British Museum’s Petroleum Partnership At An End
The British Museum is a behemoth so extensive and unwieldy that it is often the last to conform to changes made long ago by comparable museums. They are noticeably behind the curve regarding issues like repatriation and NFTs. However, they … More…
Nazi-Looted Painting Returned From Japan
Despite being far off from European battlefields, there is more Nazi loot in Japan than you might expect. Last year, I wrote about how the descendants of a Jewish family whose art collection was looted by the Nazis during the … More…
Michigan Gallerist Stole $1.6M From Clients
Have you ever been caught in a lie? Have you ever tried to get out of trouble by lying again to make the initial lie make sense? Perpetually evading responsibility can be exhausting and, in the case of one Michigan … 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…