A Real Stupid Move
There isn’t much time left to stop the sale of the 40 works from the Berkshire Museum and every option should be explored. Lee Rosenbaum’s idea seems to be a good one. Could Williams College come to the rescue … More…
Basquiat — Want To Know More?
The Barbican, in London, will host Basquiat: Boom for Real. A retrospective exhibition running from September 21 through January 28, 2018. If you want to learn a little more about this art world star, check out Miranda Sawyer’s article … More…
How About One Million Dollars Not To Sell?
The Art Newspaper reported that an anonymous group of donors offered the Berkshire Museum one million dollars with the stipulation that the museum take its art off the auction block for at least a year and try to come up … More…
That Did Not Take Very Long!
I knew it would take very long for the other ‘major’ auction house to up its buyer’s premium. Nate Freeman states in his ArtNews article that Christie’s is widening the brackets for prices charged the highest fees and increasing … More…
It’s Going To Cost You More
For the third year in a row, Sotheby’s has announced that it will increase its buyer’s premium. According to an article in the Financial Times: Buyers will pay 25 per cent of the hammer price up to and including $300,000 [it was … More…
£1 – Really?
Jailed conman and forger, Richard Pearson, has been ordered to pay back just £1. According to Karon Kelly’s article in the Sunderland Echo, the 56-year-old fraudster had convinced the owners of a gallery in Corbridge, Northumberland, that he had access to … More…
Science Helps Turn £35,000 Into £2,000,000!
According to Henry Bodkin’s article in The Telegraph, every week, Philip Mould breaks the hearts of fellow art dealers as he reveals the disguised masterpieces they let slip through their fingers on the BBC’s Fake or Fortune? Well, recently, Mould … More…
Mr. President — GOODBYE!
The governmental fallout from the recent Charlottesville riots continues to grow. Today, a letter was sent to President Trump informing him that all members of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, created in 1982 under President Reagan, … More…
Comments on the Art Market – Volume 201
Source: Newsletter Archives – we just released Volume 201 of our Comments on the Art Market. In this issue we cover Tales from the Dark Side, Really (updates from the collectibles market), Stocks and the all important Art Market (our thoughts … More…