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Thursday, March 11 2010

• $2.7 Billion Dutch Fair Lures Collectors as Confidence Rises - Scott Reyburn, Bloomberg
  
  
• Ex-corporate raider Edelman sued as loans default - Jonathan Stempel, Reuters
  
  
• The name game - Economist
  
  
• It’s a renter’s (art) market - Kristen Peterson, Las Vegas Sun
  
  
• Art Critics: Get Real! - Adam Lindemann, NY Observer
  
  

Monday, March 8 2010

• Sotheby’s Restores CEO’s Salary as Cost-Cutting Yields Profits - Philip Boroff, Bloomberg
  
  
• Thaw Collection of American Indian Art from Fenimore Art Museum dazzles in special exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art - Steven Litt, Cleveland Plain Dealer
  
  
• Moscow socialite opens celebration of Russian art - Reuters via Sydney Morning Herald
  
  
• DeLorean, Bjork, Rich Russians Boost ‘Crazy’ New York Art Fairs - Katya Kazakina, Bloomberg
  
  
• Israel Museum Kapoor Work Turns Jerusalem Upside Down (Update1) - Calev Ben-David and Gwen Ackerman, Bloomberg News
  
  

Friday, March 5 2010

• The Art Show: Flying the flag for US dealers - Charlotte Burns and Ossian Ward, Art Newspaper
  
  
• Sales Pick Up at New York Fairs - Kelly Crow and Candace Jackson, WSJ
  
  
• How Twitter Got Me Started in Art-Collecting Game for Just $20 - Katya Kazakina, Bloomberg
  
  
• Family sues over Adams' Met Museum prints - Paula Lloyd, Fresno Bee
  
  
• Anti-Mainstream Museum’s Mainstream Show - Roberta Smith, NY Times
  
  

Thursday, March 4 2010

• Woman convicted in case of stolen Antoinette watch - Sue Manning, AP
  
  
• DNA clues hunted in ’90 art theft - Stephen Kurkjian, Boston Globe
  
  
• Klein’s Naked Model Painting May Fetch $10 Million in New York - Scott Reyburn, Bloomberg
  
  

Wednesday, March 3 2010

• Survival of the fittest? NYC fairs multiply despite recession - Charlotte Burns and Gareth Harris, Art Newspaper
  
  
• Contemporary Arts Fair Veers Into 'Emerging' Territory - Sonia Kolesikov-Jessop, NY Times
  
  
• Don't Call It An Art Fair! - Leon Neyfakh, NY Observer
  
  
• Russian art on sale in London's auction houses: MacDougall's big impact - John Varoli, Telegraph
  
  

Tuesday, March 2 2010

• Sotheby’s Reports Quarterly Profit After Cost Cuts - Philip Boroff, Bloomberg
  
  
• Munch’s Loony-Bin Visit Sparks Paris ‘Anti-Scream’ Exhibit - Jorg von Uthmann, Bloomberg
  
  
• Keno Auctions Launches with Preview in New York City - Lita Solis-Cohen, Maine Antiques Digest
  
  
• New York Bill Would Tightly Regulate Auctions - Betty Flood, Maine Antiques Digest
  
  
• Painting purchased at Montclair Kimberley Academy fundraiser may be a fake - Karin Price Mueller, Star Ledger
  
  
• Detroit unveils gallery of Islamic art - AP
  
  
• Greek Billionaire, $5 Million Magritte Fire Up Busy Armory Week - Katya Kazakina, Bloomberg
  
  

Monday, March 1 2010

• http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=al5PIJ9zPDyY# - Philip Boroff, Bloomberg
  
  
• Sotheby’s Reports Profit of $73.6 Million After Cost Cuts - Philip Boroff, Bloomberg
  
  
• Nightmares Spur Christie’s Asia Head Curiel to Outdo Sotheby’s - Le-Min Lim, Bloomberg News
  
  
• Creator Of New Art Fund Sees Plenty Of Potential Capacity Growth - Tom Burroughes, Weath Briefing
  
  

Friday, February 26 2010

• Barnes $25 Billion Art Trove, Boardroom Fight Drive Documentary - Katya Kazakina, Bloomberg
  
  
• Art gallery by day – bondage club by night - Tony Paterson, Independent
  
  
• Raphael’s $47.6 Million Muse Export Banned by U.K. Government - Scott Reyburn, Bloomberg
  
  
• A Very Good Year – If It Weren’t for the Recession - Sharon Donnell, NBC Washington
  
  
• At a Biennial on a Budget, Tweaking and Provoking - Holland Cotter, NY Times
  
  
• Swiss Art Museum Founder Ernst Beyeler Dies at 88 - Eliane Engeler (AP)
  
  

Thursday, February 25 2010

• Shock appointment of anti-modernist to Venice Biennale - The Art Newspaper, Alessandro Martini and Gareth Harris
  
  
• Whitney Biennial Mishmash Serves Up Michael Jackson, Macrame - Linda Yablonsky, Bloomberg
  
  
• Queen of Pain - Leon Neyfakh, NY Observer
  
  
• Qi Baishi is only just behind Picasso in art sales ranking - Ben Hoyle, London Times
  
  
• Dutch Museum Says Artwork is Unknown Van Gogh, Telegraph Reports - Chris Peterson, Bloomberg
  
  

Thursday, February 11 2010

• Fight for Fontana, Doig Boosts $84.5 Million Sotheby’s Auction - Scott Reyburn, Bloomberg
  
  
• Black-Eyed Lucian Freud Self-Portrait Sells for $4.4 Million - Scott Reyburn, Bloomberg
  
  
• Swiss art collection on show two years after heist - Reuters
  
  
• Leonardo da Vinci makes a stop at Winter Games in Vancouver - David Ng, LA Times
  
  
• Bob Dylan's first canvas paintings exhibited at London art gallery - AP
  
  
• MOCA announces more than 50 acquisitions for 2009 - David Ng, LA Times
  
  

Wednesday, February 10 2010

• Sotheby’s Sues Chinese Buyers for Nonpayment of Art Won at Sale - Le-Min Lim, Bloomberg News
  
  
• Seattle is first U.S. stop for Picasso exhibit - Michael Upchurch, Seattle Times
  
  

Tuesday, February 9 2010

• Cooked Saint, Dante Nose Job Grace Met’s Bronzino Show: Review - Jeffrey Burke, Bloomberg
  
  
• International art fair in Palm Beach County reporting increased attendance, sales - John Lantigua, Palm Beach Post
  
  
• Contemporary auctions aim to cement art recovery - Mike Collett-White, Reuters
  
  
• Guggenheim Resolves Dispute With Heirs of Russian Artist Kazimir Malevich - Kelly Crow, WSJ
  
  

Monday, February 8 2010

• Collector Sues Gallery Over Basquiat - Sarah Hull, Courthouse News
  
  
• Graff Buys Picasso as Sales Double, Giacometti Clues Revealed - Scott Reyburn, Bloomberg
  
  
• A Touch of Fame Works Its Magic in Market - Souren Melikian, NY Times
  
  
• Museum Raises $250 Million to Show Fisher Art, Triple in Size - Stephen West, Bloomberg
  
  
• News Middle East Iran cuts ties with British Museum - Al Jazeera
  
  

Friday, February 5 2010

• The Saatchi of Manchester takes on London's art elite - Charlotte Appleyard, Jewish Chronicle
  
  
• Johns, Picasso to Top $30 Million Sale of Writer Crichton’s Art - Scott Reyburn, Bloomberg
  
  
• An Art Market Suddenly at Dizzying Heights - Souren Melikian, NY Times
  
  
• Museum to get 29 impressionist works from Bloch collection Read more: Museum to get 29 impressionist works from Bloch collection - Alice Thorson, Kansas City Star
  
  
• SFMOMA raises $250 million in 6 months - Kenneth Baker, SF Chronicle
  
  

Thursday, February 4 2010

• Hirst Pickles Last Creature, Fires Mom’s Chauffeur: Interview - Katya Kazakina, Bloomberg
  
  
• Reactionaries? Make That ‘Collectors’ - Dan Levin, NY Times
  
  
• Record Alberto Giacometti sculpture: an appreciation - Colin Gleadell, Telegraph
  
  
• High demand in Turkey’s small art market - Hurriyet Daily News
  
  
• Dresdner’s Giacometti Statue Sells for Record 65 Million Pounds - Scott Reyburn, Bloomberg
  
  
• Fargo museum getting $1.2 million mural - AP via Victoria Advocate
  
  
• Philanthropist, arts patron Evelyn Haas dies - Michael Cabanatuan, SF Chronicle
  
  

Wednesday, February 3 2010

• Cocktails and Art at the Gagosian - WWD
  
  
• Sheffield-born art collector shares his expertise with students on visit - Star South Yorkshire
  
  
• Rare Tiffany art pottery vase tops Rago's $3 million auction - Auction Central News
  
  
• Heir eyes fortune as "lost" Klimt comes to auction - Mike Collett-White, Reuters
  
  
• Dame Dash to Open Dash Gallery in New York - Boombox
  
  
• Restitution case targets Thyssen museum - Martha Lufkin, Art Newspaper
  
  
• Beauty continues love affair with modern art - Independent
  
  
• Picasso Portrait Sells for 8.1 Million Pounds on Russian Demand - Scott Reyburn, Bloomberg
  
  
• Met Museum Portfolio Fell by Over $600 Million Amid Staff Cuts - Philip Boroff, Bloomberg
  
  

Tuesday, February 2 2010

• Seized the Day - Judd Tully, Art + Auction
  
  
• Interview with Dakis Joannou - Chris Bors, Modern Painters
  
  
• Chester Dale Collection makes a strong showing in National Gallery exhibit - Kevin Conley, Washington Post
  
  
• Art Sales: Sotheby's shows the way - Colin Gleadell, Telegraph
  
  

Monday, February 1 2010

• ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: A Controversy over Degas - William D. Cohan, ARTnews
  
  
• Warhol photos distributed across nation - Carrie Antlfinger, AP
  
  
• Docu offers vibrant insider's view of Basquiat - John De Fore, Reuters
  
  
• Ban on Haitian art trade - AFP via Straits Times
  
  

Friday, January 29 2010

• Paul R. Jones, art collector and Bessemer native, dies at 81 - Michael Huebner, Birmingham News
  
  
• Art Gallery abuzz sorting out plethora of pre-opening bugs - Elizabeth Withey, Edmonton Journal
  
  
• The Art World's Gordon Gekko - Kelly Crow, WSJ
  
  
• Artist Michael Landy bins works by Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin - Ben Hoyle, London Times
  
  

Thursday, January 28 2010

• Christie’s Sees Art-Market Recovery After 24% Decline in Sales - Scott Reyburn, Bloomberg
  
  
• Jack Wolgin, 93; helped remake Center City - Diane Mastrull, Philly.com
  
  
• From Russia with love: Cambridge artist finds success in abstract - Ed Symkus, Allston-Brighton Tab
  
  
• City scores hat trick with new art gallery - Paula Simons, Edmonton Journal
  
  
• The Nifty 50 | Jason Blum, Producer - Stephen Heyman, NY Times
  
  
• Closed museum taking a hard look at UNLV - Kristen Peterson, Las Vegas Sun
  
  
• Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton to display quilt exhibit - Enterprise News
  
  
• Donors give Getty 52 images by Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Mexico's leading photographer - Mike Boehm, LA Times
  
  

Wednesday, January 27 2010

• Carlos Slim Builds New Museum - Artinfo
  
  
• U.S. Art Dealer Gives Cuba Works by Picasso, Miro, Warhol - Latin American Herald Tribune
  
  
• Hitler’s Vermeer, Pride of Vienna Museum, Faces Nazi-Era Claim - Catherine Hickley, Bloomberg
  
  
• Mamma Mia! ABBAWORLD theme park opens in London - AP via Houston Chronicle
  
  

Tuesday, January 26 2010

• Q&A with Aria interior architect Peter Marino - Tony Illia, Las Vegas Business Press
  
  
• El Anatsui lets chance, collaboration into his work - Houston Chronicle
  
  
• Photography and the rise of African art - Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe
  
  
• New contender emerges for Broad museum - Kevin Herrera, Santa Monica Daily News
  
  
• CIA officer and art museum chairman Laughlin Phillips, 85, dies - Adam Bernstein, Washington Post
  
  

Monday, January 25 2010

• Cultural Riches Turn to Rubble in Haiti Quake - Marc Lacey, NY Times
  
  
• Art Trove Is Among Nation's Losses - Pooja Bhatia, Wall Street Journal
  
  
• Amon Carter Museum acquires significant 1889 painting by George de Forest Brush - Gaile Robinson, Star-Telegram
  
  
• Scorsese speaks at LACMA about museum's film screening program - David Ng and Amy Kaufman, LA Times
  
  
• London Museum Unveils Display of Forged Art - Sky News
  
  

Friday, January 22 2010

• London’s National Gallery and Liechtenstein Prince fail to agree on price for Coello masterpiece - Martin Bailey, Art Newspaper
  
  
• Hitler’s Wish List of Art Treasures Returns After 65 Years - Catherine Hickley, Bloomberg
  
  
• Exhibit in Philly Explores Legacy of Women in Pop - Joann Loviglio, AP
  
  
• In New York: The Week’s Best Openings - Andrew M. Goldstein, Artinfo
  
  

Thursday, January 21 2010

• 32 NEW WORKS - Sarah Milroy, Globe and Mail
  
  
• Saltz: Why New York Will Miss Jeffrey Deitch - Jerry Saltz, NY Mag
  
  
• What is the sin MoCA and Jeffrey Deitch have committed? - Edward Winkleman, Art Newspaper
  
  
• Masters and mistresses - Economist
  
  
• The Nationals Arts Index, a new survey by Americans for the Arts, paints a troubling picture for arts organizations - Jacqueline Trescott, Washington Post
  
  
• Broads add $2M to museum donation - Zane McMillin, MSU State News
  
  
• Kemper museum volunteers make the picks for new art exhibition - Nick Malewski, Kansas City Star
  
  
• Money troubles at Latino museum in San Antonio - AP, Dallas Morning New
  
  
• New look rewrites museum founder’s vision for her guests - Sebastian Smee, Boston Globe
  
  

Wednesday, January 20 2010

• Black-Eyed Freud Boosts $104 Million Sale, 68% Up on Last Year - Scott Reyburn, Bloomberg
  
  
• Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art director strives for transparency - Mary Thomas, Pittsburgh Gazette Post
  
  

Tuesday, January 19 2010

• Making Art Out of an Encounter - Arthur Lubow, NY Times
  
  
• L.A. art galleries holding charity auction for Haiti earthquake victims - David Ng, LA Times
  
  
• Art Sales: Freud's £4m black eye - Colin Gleadell, Telegraph
  
  
• Can Collectors Have Their Art And Lend It, Too? - Kate Taylor, NPR
  
  
• Woman seeking return of looted art from Norton Simon Museum loses appeal - Mike Boehm, LA Times
  
  
• Billionaire Abramovich Buys Art for Yacht With Helipads, Lasers - Scott Reyburn, Bloomberg
  
  
• Jeffrey Deitch on to another art adventure at MOCA - Geraldine Baum, LA Times
  
  

Friday, January 15 2010

• Conart Confidential: The Great Contemporary Art Bubble - Kenneth Baker, SF Chronicle
  
  
• Fine Art and High Finance - Georgina Adam, FT
  
  
• MOCA future exhibits (mostly) impressive - Christopher Knight, LA Times
  
  

Thursday, January 14 2010

• Ruby Chandelier, Bubbly Bucket Stands Sell at Tavern Auction - Katya Kazakina, Bloomberg
  
  
• Asian Artists Shine Despite Tough Times - Laura Santini, WSJ
  
  
• A twist in Getty Museum's Italian court saga - Jason Felch, LA Times
  
  
• Bellevue Arts Museum appoints new artistic director - Janet I. Tu, Seattle Times
  
  

Wednesday, January 13 2010

• Fritz Lohman | Championed gay art, 87 - AP, Philly.com
  
  
• Auction house porters accused of carrying out more than their jobs - John Lichfield, Independent
  
  
• Etching found at Catholic University may be a Rembrandt - Jenna Johnson, Washington Post
  
  
• Mounting a comeback - Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe
  
  
• Billionaires lead art world recovery with sale of £10m masterpieces - Ben Hoyle, London Times
  
  
• ICA hires Harvard museum’s Molesworth - Geoff Edgers, Boston Globe
  
  
• U.S. museum hires Korean curator - Kim Hyung-eu, Joong Any Daily
  
  
• Stolen Monet Found in Poland After 10 Years - AP
  
  
• MOCA co-chairs say Deitch's contract has safeguards against conflicts of interest - Mike Boehm, LA Times
  
  

Tuesday, January 12 2010

• Sylvester Stallone opens up about his secret passion, and talent, for painting - Scott Warren, Mail
  
  
• Dresdner’s Giacometti to Boost $202 Million Auctions in London - Scott Reyburn, Bloomberg
  
  
• New York, London Art Sales Lure Chinese Money, Christie’s Says - Le-Min Lim, Bloomberg News
  
  
• Developer, Hub benefactor Edward Linde dead at 68 - Casey Ross, Boston Globe
  
  
• Yale moves to dismiss Peru suit - Colin Ross, Yale Daily News
  
  
• 8.5 million people visited the Louvre in 2009 - Independent
  
  
• The Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art & Science closes its doors - Reed Johnson, LA Times
  
  
• MOCA pick: bold or just biz? - Christopher Knight, LA Times
  
  

Monday, January 11 2010

• Director canvasses endless potential for SFMOMA - Julian Gutherie, SF Examiner
  
  
• Full-speed ahead: Albright-Knox adds bold new work to its collection - Colin Dabkowski, Buffalo News
  
  
• Is the Getty Museum directorship becoming a revolving door? - Christopher Knight, LA Times
  
  
• MOCA postpones announcement of its new director - Mike Boehm, LA Times
  
  

Friday, January 8 2010

• Getty Museum’s Brand to Resign as Director Following Budget Cut - Michael White, Bloomberg
  
  
• A Three-House Art Showcase - Nancy Keates, WSJ
  
  
• Lord Lloyd-Webber foundation settles Nazi confiscation dispute over £33m Picasso - Christopher Hope, Telegraph
  
  
• Getty Museum director's departure surprises art world - Michael Boehm and Jason Felch, LA Times
  
  

Thursday, January 7 2010

• Baccarat Crystal, Nostalgia Fill Tavern on the Green’s Auction - Katya Kazakina, Bloomberg
  
  
• Out of the Blue, Prestige and Riches - Guy Trebay, NY Times
  
  
• Alleged Skull and Bones artifact up for auction - Nora Caplan-Bricker, Yale Daily News
  
  
• 'General Hospital's' James Franco begins new career as artist; actor to show work at Deitch Projects - Amy Eisinger, Daily News
  
  
• Supes hold off on Pac Heights art gallery feud: Anthony Meier Fine Arts - Joshua Sabatini, San Francisco Examiner
  
  
• Sam Taylor-Wood and Nowhere Boy star Aaron Johnson expecting baby - Louise Cohen, London Times
  
  
• Dallas Art Fair to Exhibit Fifteen Texas Galleries - Dallas Art News
  
  
• Smithsonian Institution has record year in 2009, with 30 million visits - Jacqueline Trescott, Washington Post
  
  
• Laptop designer Bill Moggridge will head the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt museum - Jacqueline Trescott, Washington Post
  
  

Tuesday, January 5 2010

• 9th Circuit to Rehear Nazi-Looted Art Case - Courthouse News Service
  
  
• Van Gogh’s Secrets, Penn’s Celebs Put on Show: Martin Gayford - Martin Gayford, Bloomberg News
  
  
• France's art world rocked by second theft in a week - Peggy Hollinger, FT
  
  
• Art Market Still Suffering Recession-Induced Blue Period - Kelly Crow, WSJ
  
  
• Velvet painting museum closing - UPI
  
  
• Keeping His Eye on the Ball - James Wagner, WSJ
  
  
• New Bechtler Museum Opens in Charlotte, NC - AP
  
  

Monday, January 4 2010

• Best of the decade: Art - Blake Gopnik, Washington Post
  
  
• The Art of the Deal - Judith Dobrzynski, NY Times
  
  
• Police suspect inside job as Degas pastel disappears from museum - Lizzy Davies, Guardian
  
  
• New Da Vinci rumors have art world abuzz - Sarah Kaufman, LA Times
  
  
• Picasso, Rousseau works stolen in France days after Degas drawing taken - Telegraph
  
  

Thursday, December 24 2009

• A Little More on Miami - Walter Robinson, Artnet
  
  
• Deal gives de Young most of Oceanic art works - John Cote, SF Chronicle
  
  
• In Conversation: David Amfam with John Yau - John Yau, Brooklyn Rail
  
  
• Claremont Museum of Art to close doors on Dec. 27 - David Ng, LA Times
  
  
• Nordstrom to rent space from Seattle Art Museum - AP
  
  

Friday, December 18 2009

• Collector Mera Rubell makes rounds of Washington's isolated artists - Jessica Dawson, Washington Post
  
  
• Claims of Insider Trading From Trader’s Ex-Wife - Jenny Anderson and Zachery Kouwe
  
  
• First Art Hedge Fund Calls It Quits - FIN Alternatives
  
  
• Victor Pinchuk, Peter Brant among new MOCA trustees - David Ng, LA Times
  
  
• Michelangelo figure may be a fake - Nick Squires, Telegraph
  
  
• Major UK art show cancelled over seized painting - Mike Collett-White, Reuters
  
  
• Jennifer Jones Simon gave new life to husband's museum - Suzanne Muchnic, LA Times
  
  

Wednesday, December 16 2009

• DVD Review: Herb & Dorothy: A Tale of Two Art Lovers - Christine Champ, Film.com
  
  
• Hugh Grant's drunken Warhol story has Britain in a tizzy - David Ng, LA Times
  
  
• Sotheby’s, Christie’s Contemporary-Art Sales Total Drops 75% - Scott Reyburn, Bloomberg
  
  
• DIA's Islamic art gallery to open Feb. 28 - Michael H. Hodges, Detroit News
  
  
• Russian sales in London show increasing market confidence - John Varoli, The Art Newspaper
  
  
• Susan Adams On Collecting - Susan Adams, Forbes
  
  
• Downtown Fresno museum headed for its end - AP
  
  
• The Hirshhorn Museum's inflationary measure: A $5 million balloon expansion - Jacqueline Trescott, Washington Post
  
  

Monday, December 14 2009

• Flavin’s Light, $7 Million Hockney Landscapes, Menacing Serras - Katya Kazakina, Bloomberg
  
  
• Shooting gallery: Toronto art dealers are bemused and annoyed by Viktor Mitic’s portraits - Mark Medley, National Post
  
  
• Tate’s Christmas Tree Shocks -- It’s Festive: Martin Gayford - Martin Gayford, Bloomberg News
  
  
• Putting On Urs - Peter Schjeldahl, New Yorker
  
  
• Slicing a Car, Fusing Bicycles and Turning Ideas Into Art - Holland Cotter, NY Times
  
  

Friday, December 11 2009

• Recipients of United States Artists grants can get creative with spending them - Susan Muchnic, LA Times
  
  
• Reality Leaves a Fingerprint on the Biennial - Carol Vogel, NY Times
  
  
• Arts survey finds drop in movie, museum attendance - Hillel Italie, AP
  
  
• Thomas Hoving: The Man Who Made the Modern Met - Richard Lacayo, Time
  
  
• The Art of Being Charles Saatchi - Susan Adam, Forbes
  
  
• Rothko’s a Monster in New Play, Bully Baron Pursues Ingenue - Warwick Thompson
  
  
• Charles Saatchi Turns TV Talent Scout to Foster Young Artists - Farah Nayeri, Bloomberg
  
  

Wednesday, December 9 2009

• Artist defends billion-euro 'gifts' from L'Oreal heiress - AFP
  
  
• Rembrandt Portrait, Raphael Drawing Set Sale Records - Scott Reyburn, Bloomberg
  
  
• Art Dealer's Diary - Kenny Schachter, Artnet
  
  
• Gavin Turk brick worth £3,000 is stolen and replaced by 40 pence equivalent - Caroline Gammell, Telegraph
  
  
• Australia refuses visas to North Korean artists - Anne Barrowclough, Times
  
  
• Billionaire Pinchuk Talks of $100,000 Global Art Prize at MoMA - Katya Kazakina, Bloomberg
  
  

Tuesday, December 8 2009

• Art Basel Miami 2009 | Back to Basquiat - Linda Yablonsky, T Magazine
  
  
• Rembrandt, Raphael Set for Records in $133 Million London Sales - Scott Reyburn, Bloomberg
  
  
• Roman Abramovich becomes a father for the sixth time - exclusive - Martin Fricker, Mirror
  
  
• New Prize to Honor Artists Under 35 - Carol Vogel, NY Times
  
  
• Erotic art dealer donates Torah scroll to South Beach temple - Elinor J. Brecher. Miami Herald
  
  
• Pay Frozen at Museum of Modern Art as Investments Shrink by 18% - Philip Boroff, Bloomberg
  
  

Monday, December 7 2009

• Elinor Gordon's Collections Split Between Auction Houses - Lita Solis-Cohen, Maine Antiques Digest
  
  
• Interest-free loans create unique set of art collectors - Anna-Louise Taylor, BBC
  
  
• Tweaking the Big-Money Art World on Its Own Turf - Damien Cave, NY Times
  
  
• Is this a $2m Warhol, or a fake? Art world sees red over self-portraits - David Leigh, Guardian
  
  
• The worlds of David Hockney - Barbara Isenberg, LA Times
  
  
• Renowned French museum reopens after strike - AFP
  
  
• Nightmare at the museum - Geoff Edgers, Boston Globe
  
  

Wednesday, December 2 2009

• Ming Dynasty Lacquer Tray Sells for $3.3 Million in Hong Kong - Le-Min Lim, Bloomberg News
  
  
• Pritzker Prize winner Peter Zumthor planning LACMA makeover - Mike Boehm, LA Times
  
  
• Large-scale sculpture The Eye by David Altmejd acquired by Dallas Museum of Art - Pegasus News
  
  
• Picture possibly painted by Titian found in Odesa museum - Kyiv Post
  
  
• Main Paris museums closed due to strike - AP
  
  

Tuesday, December 1 2009

• Going, going, gone... Christie's boss takes a 'tactless' jaunt - Daily Mail
  
  

Monday, November 30 2009

• Russian Billionaires May Spend $81 Million at London Auctions - John Varoli, Bloomberg
  
  
• Shhh! Wall Street is Spending Again - David Enrich and Susanne Craig, WSJ
  
  
• Audi hopes art steers sales its way - Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald
  
  
• At 50, Phoenix Art Museum thrives due to donors - Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic
  
  
• Bilbao Museum Official Sentenced - Rachel Lee Harris, NY Times
  
  

Friday, November 27 2009

• Abu Dhabi Prepares for Louvre With Giant Gorilla, Beirut Jigsaw - Ali Sheikholeslami and Ayesha Daya, Bloomberg News
  
  
• Pink Diamond, Bordeaux Wine Boost HK$1 Billion Hong Kong Sale - Le-Min Lim, Bloomberg News
  
  
• Lawren Harris painting sells for $3.5 million - John Mackie, Vancouver Sun
  
  
• Former director of Spain's Guggenheim museum jailed - AFP
  
  
• 'No tax cash' for treasure hoard - BBC News
  
  
• French Unions Threaten to Shut Paris Museums Over Job Cuts - Gregory Viscusi, Bloomberg News
  
  
• Charis Wilson, photographer's muse, dies at 95 - AP
  
  

Tuesday, November 24 2009

• Charles Saatchi's new generation of artists - Anthony Gardner, London Times
  
  
• Warhol ‘Heinz 57’ Crate, Found After Two Years, Leads to Arrest - Philip Boroff, Bloomberg
  
  
• Matching Architecture to the Art in a New Miami Museum - Nicholai Ouroussof, NY Times
  
  
• Court drops case in nude photo shoot at NYC museum - AP
  
  
• Google documents Iraqi museum treasures - Ryan Lucas, AP
  
  

Monday, November 23 2009

• Koons’s $25 Million Dangling Train Derailed by Lacma Shortfall - Katya Kazakina, Bloomberg
  
  
• Market bouncing back in time for Art Basel Miami Beach - Jim Wyss, Miami Herald
  
  
• Macau plans Michael Jackson shrine to house iconic glove - Reuters
  
  
• Art Dealer Claims Christie's Stiffed It - Courthouse News Service
  
  
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art is hard hit by recession - Mike Boehm, LA Times
  
  

Friday, November 20 2009

• Indicted Art Dealer Hits Snag in $5.1 Million Sale of Estate - Philip Boroff, Bloomberg
  
  
• Art Basel Miami Beach ever hopeful - Lindsay Pollock, TAN
  
  
• Art review: Jeff Koons at Gagosian Gallery - David Pagel, LA Times
  
  
• Frances L. Brody dies at 93; philanthropist, arts advocate and collector - Elaine Woo, LA Times
  
  

Monday, November 16 2009

• Weekend Arts: Zaha hits Rome - Jay Merrick, Independent
  
  
• Groundbreaking on the Parkway for museum: New digs for Barnes - Stephan Salisbury, Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  
• Eli Broad expands plans for his Westside museum - Mike Boehm, LA Times
  
  
• A gala celebration for MOCA - Jessica Gelt, LA Times
  
  

Friday, November 13 2009

• Phillips de Pury Makes Its (Small) Mark - Judd Tully, Artinfo
  
  
• Saint Laurent Auction Rich in Sentimental Value - Nazanin Lankarani, NY Times
  
  
• The Art Market Shows Signs of Life - Kelly Crow, WSJ
  
  
• Salander Friend Bids $6 Million for Dealer’s Home, Property - Philip Boroff, Bloomberg
  
  
• MOCA looks on the bright side of 30 - Christopher Knight, LA Times
  
  

Thursday, November 12 2009

• Lower East Side Stirs Up New York Art Market, Deals Sub-$15,000 - Katya Kazakina, Bloomberg
  
  
• Goo at Gagosian; Kiefer Ghosts; Riley’s Curves: U.K. Galleries - Martin Gayford, Bloomberg News
  
  
• Cleveland museum paying $1.56M for Neel painting - AP
  
  

Wednesday, November 11 2009

• German Lawmakers to Return Nazi-Looted Bismarck Canvas to Heirs - Brian Parkin, Bloomberg News
  
  
• Jarvis Cocker sets up three-day gallery gig to break down barriers - Alexandra Topping, Guardian
  
  
• British art curator and daughter found dead in Australia - Toni O'Loughlin, Guardian
  
  
• Some Object as Museum Shows Its Trustee’s Art - Deborah Sontag and Robin Pogrebin, NY Times
  
  

Monday, November 9 2009

• Titian Masterpiece Joins Princes at Play, Mud in U.K. Galleries - Martin Gayford, Bloomberg News
  
  
• Former employees jostlin' Jocelyne Wildenstein for penny-ante wages - Lore Croghan, Daily News
  
  
• The Metropolitan Museum unveils a 'maybe' Michelangelo - Christopher Knight, LA Times
  
  

Friday, November 6 2009

• A Tribute to Charles Seliger (1926-2009) - James Siena and Robert Morgan, Brooklyn Rail
  
  
• CARROLL DUNHAM In Conversation with Phong Bui - Phong Bui, Brooklyn Rail
  
  
• Maine's Farnsworth Art Museum hires new director - AP
  
  

Thursday, November 5 2009

• As Buffett Spends $26 Billion, Railroadiana Nets Better Returns - Katya Kazakina, Bloomberg
  
  
• Asian Art Worth $26 Million Lures Record Chinese Buyers to U.K. - Scott Reyburn, Bloomberg
  
  
• Providence couple embroiled in search for Nazi art - Katie Mulvaney, Providence Journal
  
  
• Right to the point - Canada National Post
  
  
• Rose Art Museum display justifies the passions - Sebastian Smee, Boston Globe
  
  
• Alma Thomas painting nixed in East Wing - Blake Gopnik, Washington Post
  
  

Wednesday, November 4 2009

• Autistic artist finds inspiration in New York city - Nick Olivari, Reuters
  
  
• Visual artists absent from the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities - Christopher Knight, LA Times
  
  
• In Berlin, a Renovated Gas Station - Kimberly Bradley, NY Times
  
  
• Slightly trimmed Clyfford Still Museum set to break ground - Kyle MacMillan, Denver Post
  
  
• Oilman’s Heirs Fight Houston Art Museum Over Estate - Laurel Brubaker Calkins and Margaret Cronin Fisk, Bloomberg
  
  

Tuesday, November 3 2009

• Room for the Eight-Legged - Josh Barbanel, NY Times
  
  
• Bronze sculpture sat in Cleveland man's back yard for 40 years, fetches $118,000 at auction - Michael K. McIntyre, Cleveland Plain Dealer
  
  
• Hirst Collector Victor Pinchuk Plans New Arts Center for Kiev - John Varoli, Bloomberg
  
  
• Queen's art gallery at Buckingham Palace was IRA target, archives show - Duncan Gardham, Telegraph
  
  
• Art gallery gets a new leader - Buffalo News
  
  
• Museum Mash-Up: A Former Whitney President Becomes a Work of Art - Kate Taylor, WSJ
  
  
• Rembrandt portrait museum 'coup' - BBC News
  
  

Monday, November 2 2009

• Coming Soon to Your Town: Fake "Madoff" Auctions? - Tim Padgett, Time
  
  

Friday, October 30 2009

• Holding the Line Against Forgeries - Barbara Wall, NY Times
  
  
• Oxford’s Ashmolean is a museum for today’s world after £61m revamp - Rachel Campbell Johnston, London Times
  
  
• Art Review | Urs Fischer - Roberta Smith, NY Times
  
  
• MoMA owns up to Warhol rejection letter from 1956 - David Ng, LA Times
  
  
• New tower for MoMA gets go-ahead - BBC News
  
  
• Roy DeCarava, 89 - Matt Schudel, Washington Post
  
  

Thursday, October 29 2009

• Art trade bounces back, still not a pretty picture - Claire Rosemberg, AFP
  
  
• The Collector: Kim Chang-il - Jane Lanhee Lee Naville, WSJ
  
  
• Rosenquist Writ Large, by Himself - Dwight Garner, NY Times
  
  

Wednesday, October 28 2009

• Gory Spanish Art Would Thrill Pathologists, Tarantino: Review - Martin Gayford, Bloomberg News
  
  
• Christie's sells most pricey current Arab art work - AFP
  
  
• Art Market News - Colin Gleadell, Telegraph
  
  
• British Art Center seeks more undergraduate visitors - Alison Greenberg, Yale Daily News
  
  
• Museum president won't give back pay this year - Steve Schultze, Journal Sentinel
  
  

Tuesday, October 27 2009

• Christie's offers insurance for collectors - Kaya Burgess, London Times
  
  
• The Performer At This Year's Free Basel "Art Loves Music" Concert is Likely Ebony Bones - Arielle Castillo, Miami New Times
  
  
• Affordable Art Fair bypasses the downturn as sales pass £100m - Kathryn Hopkins, Guardian
  
  
• No Money Back for Gallery Worker Who Relied on Estimate of Schnabel Painting's Value - Noeleen G. Walder, NY Law Journal
  
  
• Miami Art Museum chief steps down, leaves unfinished business - Daniel Chang, Miami Herald
  
  

Monday, October 26 2009

• World Renowned Street Artist Shepard Fairey and the Levi's(R) Brand Team Up To Unveil New, Limited Edition Collection - Reuters, PR Newswire
  
  
• $40 Million Mondrian Reserved as Art Collectors Mull Purchases - Scott Reyburn, Bloomberg
  
  
• The art market: French flair - Georgina Adam, FT
  
  
• Ivor Braka: a rock 'n' roll art dealer - Godfrey Barker, Evening Standard
  
  
• I'm a victim, pleads dealer hiding from art fraud case - Steve Barrett and Les Kennedy, Brisbane Times
  
  
• The Question: Is It Art? The Answer: Ambiguous - Stephen Holden, NY Times
  
  
• Walters Art Museum gala - Sloane Brown, Baltimore Sun
  
  
• At MoMA, ‘Permanent’ Learns to Be Flexible - Ted Loos, NY Times
  
  

Sunday, October 25 2009

• More Matter, With Less Art - Sheelah Kolhatkar, NY Times
  
  

Thursday, October 22 2009

• 32-carat diamond sells for $7.7M at NYC auction - ULA ILNYTZKY, AP
  
  
• AP says artist made up story about Obama poster - AP
  
  
• Art Toronto gets its house in order - Peter Goddard, Toronto Star
  
  
• Art collector in Warhol theft unhappy with LAPD - David Ng, LA Times
  
  
• The Brillo-Box Scandal - Eileen Kinsella, ARTnews
  
  
• Imperial Palace shakes it up with a little vintage Elvis Presley memorabilia - John Katsilometes, Las Vegas Sun
  
  

Wednesday, October 21 2009

• Warhol Inc. - Eileen Kinsella, ARTnews
  
  
• Nancy Spero's death means the art world loses its conscience - Adrian Searle, Guardian
  
  
• Architect’s Challenge: A Sliver of a Space - Robin Pogrebin, NY Times
  
  

Tuesday, October 20 2009

• How a 'New' da Vinci Was Discovered - Jeff Israely, Time
  
  
• Raphael Drawing May Sell for Record $19.7 Million (Update1) - Scott Reyburn, Bloomberg
  
  
• The way she were: Barbra Streisand auction results - David A. Keeps, LA Times
  
  
• Warhol’s ‘Disaster,’ $40 Million Bacon Star in French Art Fair - Katya Kazakina, Bloomberg
  
  
• Jennifer Hudson Talks Motherhood at Whitney Museum Gala - ET
  
  
• Harrity named Art Museum president - Stephan Salisbury, Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  

Friday, October 16 2009

• Frieze gets off to a fizz-popping start - Stuart Shave, Guardian
  
  
• Art Currents Flow Two Ways in Pan-American City, U.S.A. - Holland Cotter, NY Times
  
  
• Gates Foundation Announces $10 Million Donation to Smithsonian - Jacqueline Trescott, Washington Post
  
  

Thursday, October 15 2009

• When the bottom fell out of the art market - Charlotte Higgins, Guardian
  
  
• Hirst tumbles down art power list - BBC News
  
  
• Abramovich, Paltrow Go Browsing at Frieze as Buyers Haggle More - Scott Reyburn, Bloomberg
  
  

Wednesday, October 14 2009

• Hirst Abandons Sharks, Butterflies for Oil Painting: Interview - Farah Nayeri, Bloomberg
  
  
• Brandeis agrees to delay sale of artwork - Boston Globe
  
  
• Royal Bank of Scotland unveils its private art collection - Mike Wade, London Times
  
  
• Hirst Among the Masters - Judd Tully, Artinfo
  
  
• Tate Replaces Brooke Shields Image, Reopens Richard Prince Room - Farah Nayeri, Bloomberg
  
  
• Robert M. Murdock: Curator at Dallas Museum of Art in 1970s - Joe Simnacher, Dallas Morning News
  
  

Tuesday, October 13 2009

• Unrecognised Leonardo da Vinci portrait revealed by his fingerprint - Ben Hoyle, London Times
  
  
• Iran Gives British Museum 2-Month Deadline Over Cyrus Cylinder - Ali Sheikholeslami, Bloomberg News
  
  

Monday, October 12 2009

• Dealers, artists preparing for the big show - Daniel Chang, Miami Herald
  
  
• How we all learned to stop sneering and embrace modern art - Miranda Sawyer, Guardian
  
  
• Royal Bank of Scotland agrees to put hidden art collection on public display - Severin Carrell, Guardian
  
  
• Whitney Advances Plans for Museum Near the High Line - Carol Vogel, NY Times
  
  

Friday, October 9 2009

• Battle of the Fairs: Paris vs. London - Kelly Crow, WSJ
  
  
• INTERVIEW:Mideast Art Prices Slump 50% Amid Downturn-Bonhams - Stefania Bianchi, WSJ
  
  
• Academy of Art Auction Draws Fans of Nudes - WWD
  
  
• Fort Dodge museum art auction raises questions - AP
  
  
• One of two suspects in art theft might be a victim, officials say - Shelley Murphy, Boston Globe
  
  
• Chinese Buying Drives Sotheby’s Hong Kong Sale to $170 Million - Le-Min Lim, Bloomberg News
  
  
• Editorial: An artful transition - Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  
• Van Gogh's letters show method, not madness - Toby Sterling, AP
  
  

Thursday, October 8 2009

• Imperial Throne Fetches Record $11.1 Million at Hong Kong Sale - Le-Min Lim, Bloomberg News
  
  
• Naked police power in the gallery - Jonathan Heawood, Guardian
  
  
• Amon Carter Museum buys 1940 painting by precisionist master - Gaile Robinson, Star-Telegram
  
  
• Imelda Marcos' shoe collection saved from floods - AP
  
  
• Egypt, Demanding Artifacts’ Return, Cuts Ties With the Louvre - AP
  
  
• Irving Penn, 92, master photographer - Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  

Wednesday, October 7 2009

• Ex-Harvard professor, art dealer called suspects in theft case - Brooke Donald, Boston Globe
  
  
• Zhang Painting Makes $1.1 Million in Hong Kong Sale - Le-Min Lim, Bloomberg News
  
  
• Returned Artifacts Displayed in Kabul - Sabrina Tavernise, NY Times
  
  
• Obamas' Choice of Works On Loan to White House Reflects a Discerning Eye - Blake Gopnik, Washington Post
  
  
• Offbeat Barnes, Gardner Museums Face Decay, Change: Commentary - James S. Russell, Bloomberg
  
  
• Taiwanese reject China sculptures - BBC News
  
  

Tuesday, October 6 2009

• Turner Prize Startles -- It’s Almost Boring: Martin Gayford - Martin Gayford, Bloomberg News
  
  
• Pop Life at Tate Modern, review - Richard Dorment, Telegraph
  
  
• Li Painting Beats Estimates in Hong Kong on Chinese Bidding - Le-Min Lim, Bloomberg News
  
  
• Claremont Museum of Art is on verge of closing doors - Suzanne Muchnic, LA Times
  
  
• Barnes plans for Parkway museum revealed - Inga Saffron and Stephan Salisbury , Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  
• NYC's Met Museum to get reputed Michelangelo work - AP
  
  

Monday, October 5 2009

• Barnes Foundation artist taught there for half a century - Sally A. Downey, Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  
• Pebble Beach art heist puts collectors in spotlight - Larry Parsons and Julia Reynolds, Monterey Herald
  
  
• Worth the wait for the sake of art - Tom Buckham, Buffalo News
  
  
• Albright Deployed Snake, Missile Pins Against Putin, Hussein - Katya Kazakina, Bloomberg
  
  
• O'Keeffe museum to honor Annie Leibovitz - AP
  
  

Friday, October 2 2009

• FBI seizes Andrew Wyeth forgery - John Shiffman, Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  
• Chinese Collectors Set to Boost $100 Million Hong Kong Auction - Le-Min Lim, Bloomberg News
  
  
• Ransom asked in theft of art worth millions - David Abel, Boston Globe
  
  
• Spielberg to show art collection - BBC News
  
  
• Anne Frank museum launches YouTube channel - AP
  
  

Thursday, October 1 2009

• Contemporary-Art Auction Values Drop 81% as Sellers Hold Back - Scott Reyburn, Bloomberg
  
  
• Art Auction Price May Be Local Record - Robert Kyle, Washington Post
  
  
• Mr. Moma - Calvin Tomkins, New Yorker
  
  
• Richard Attenborough sells part of art collection - Mike Collett-White, Reuters
  
  
• Winnipeg artist's House on Fire lights up AGO collection - CBC News
  
  
• MOSCOW EXPRESS - Matthew Bown, Artnet
  
  
• The Lens That Loved Modernism - Steven Kurutz, NY Times
  
  
• Dead Sea Scrolls at last coming to Milwaukee Public Museum - Jackie Loohauis-Bennett, Journal Sentinel
  
  
• Umberto Eco is the Louvre's new guest curator - AP
  
  

Wednesday, September 30 2009

• How To Get A Job In The Arts - Susan Adam, Forbes
  
  
• National Gallery Benefactor Amassed Significant Art Collection - Matt Schudel, Washington Post
  
  
• Stunning art theft has a Harvard link - Abbie Ruzicka, Boston Globe
  
  
• Planet Art - Guy Trebay, NY Times
  
  
• Diary of an art dealer - Minnie McIntyre, The Art Newspaper
  
  

Tuesday, September 29 2009

• Anish Kapoor Spreads Spatter at London Exhibit: Martin Gayford - Martin Gayford, Bloomberg News
  
  
• $27 million in artwork stolen from Pebble Beach home; owners offer $1M reward - Larry Parsons, Monterey Herald
  
  
• Sotheby's Australia sold to rival auction house - GABRIELLA COSLOVICH, The Age
  
  
• Is it art, or is it a shop? Keith Haring's iconic Pop Shop is reborn as both - Elizabeth Day, Guardian
  
  
• ‘I fall in love at first sight with design pieces’ - Nicole Swengley, FT
  
  
• In Violation of His Wishes (Barnes) - Julia M. Klein, WSJ
  
  
• Treasure visited by 10,500 people - BBC News
  
  
• Nonprofit Pay In 2008 - NPR
  
  
• Henry T. Hopkins dies at 81; painter and museum director had formative role in L.A. art scene - Suzanne Muchnic, LA Times
  
  

Monday, September 28 2009

• O’Keeffe Paints Hot Pink Kiss, Pioneers American Abstract Art - Katya Kazakina, Bloomberg
  
  
• Marcel Duchamp's Étant donnés: The revival of a masterpiece - Stanley Meisler, LA Times
  
  
• Estimate overstated costs of Portrait Gallery: documents - James Bradshaw, Globe and Mail
  
  
• Pace Reopens Beijing Gallery With Zhang Xiaogang’s Solo Show - Bloomberg News
  
  
• Van Gogh Museum Offers IPhone Users App on Dutch Artist’s Life - Marcel van de Hoef, Bloomberg News
  
  
• Donald Fisher art collection a legacy - Kenneth Baker, SF Chronicle
  
  

Friday, September 25 2009

• Reinharz announces intention to resign - Ariel Wittenberg, Brandeis Hoot
  
  
• Getting to know art collector, Olga Hirshhorn - Greenwich Citizen, Anne W. Semmes
  
  
• The Lower East Side, Before It Boomed - John Strausbaugh, NY Times
  
  
• Jeff Koons Tries Hand as Guest Curator - Carol Vogel, NY Times
  
  
• Famous Magritte painting stolen by armed thieves - Bruno Waterfield, Telegraph
  
  

Thursday, September 24 2009

• Kapoor Fires Cannon, Makes Mess at Royal Academy: Interview - Farah Nayeri, Bloomberg
  
  
• Overhead, a Lobby Is Restored to Old Glory - James Barron, NY Times
  
  
• What's Still Recession-Proof - Alexandra Peers, WSJ
  
  
• Sophie Calle: stalker, stripper, sleeper, spy - Stuart Jeffries, Guardian
  
  
• Michelle Obama offers Warhol Museum trek to spouses of world leaders - Mike Boehm, LA Times
  
  
• Pimco’s Bill Gross Gives $8 Million to National Postal Museum - Patrick Cole, Bloomberg News
  
  

Wednesday, September 23 2009

• Art in Russia: Under Attack - Konstantin Akinsha , ARTnews
  
  
• Russian Art Fair Bids to Lure Billionaires After Prices Slashed - John Varoli, Bloomberg
  
  
• Art Sales Uneven At Santa Fe's Indian Market - Joshua Brockman, NPR
  
  
• Ancient Art Donated to Carlos Museum - Shin-He Yu, Emory Wheel
  
  
• Design Loves Art program brings dealers, artists to the Pacific Design Center - Suzanne Muchnic, LA Times
  
  
• Artists will help Kemper Museum celebrate its 15th anniversary - Alice Thorson, Kansas City Star
  
  

Tuesday, September 22 2009

• Gormley Sculpture Tops $738,000 Auction to Aid African Children - Scott Reyburn, Bloomberg
  
  
• Through the lens of time - Alex Beam, Boston Globe
  
  
• Art Among Friends Is Up for Sale - Carol Vogel, NY Times
  
  
• Artist Takashi Murakami on how he paints - Murakami, Guardian
  
  
• Report urges Brandeis to keep Rose open to the public - Tracy Jan, Boston Globe
  
  
• Reopened Museum Tells Chinese-American Stories - Edward Rothstein, NY Times
  
  

Monday, September 21 2009

• Collector launches class action against Warhol Foundation over blighted self portrait - Antiques Trade Gazette
  
  
• Art Dealer and Author Richard Polsky Dishes on 2009 Art Market - Leon Neyfakh, NY Observer
  
  
• A Stadium as a Work of Art - Ken Belson, NY TImes
  
  
• Cleveland Museum of Art enters transition period with departure of director Timothy Rub... - Steven Litt, Cleveland Plain Dealer
  
  
• Three held in Iraqi art 'sting' - BBC News
  
  

Friday, September 18 2009

• In Full Flower, Before the Desert - Holland Cotter, NY Times
  
  
• Rembrandt Portrait May Raise 25 Million Pounds at Christie’s - Scott Reyburn, Bloomberg
  
  

Thursday, September 17 2009

• Tate Pursues 215 Million Pound New Wing, Gets Hockney Paintings - Farah Nayeri, Bloomberg
  
  
• Why paintings succeed where words fail - Gareth Harris, The Art Newspaper
  
  
• Damien Hirst Values Recover a Year After Sale, Lehman Collapse - Scott Reyburn, Bloomberg
  
  
• Alitalia to Auction Art Collection Valued at 1 Million Euros - Marco Bertacche, Bloomberg
  
  
• L.A. attorney loses multimillion-dollar art collection in house fire - Mike Boehm, LA Times
  
  
• A Competitive Frame of Mind - Alexandra Peers, WSJ
  
  

Wednesday, September 16 2009

• Dreweatts and Bloomsbury strike alliance - Roland Arkell, Antiques Trade Gazette
  
  
• Joan Allen as artist Georgia O'Keeffe in TV film - Frazier Moore, AP
  
  
• Ex-museum director to surrender in theft of artifacts - Michael Amon, Newsday
  
  
• Ghosts in the Museum - Eric Gibson, WSJ
  
  
• Long Beach Museum of Art faces $400,000 cut in city funding - Mike Boehm, LA Times
  
  

Tuesday, September 15 2009

• Man Indicted Over Sale of Stolen Picasso - Maine Antiques Digest
  
  
• Antiquities dealer and a missing £18m collection - Peter Dominiczak, London Evening Standard
  
  
• Meet the Art Lover Who Kissed Goodbye to $160 Million Profit - Farah Nayeri, Bloomberg
  
  
• Maine museum campaign to sustain Wyeth legacy - AP
  
  

Monday, September 14 2009

• Williams Sisters Picture Unsold, Tilden Stars at Open Auction - Philip Boroff, Bloomberg
  
  
• PRACTICE MANAGEMENT: Leibovitz Woes Shed Light On Art Loans - Shelly Banjo, Dow Jones
  
  
• Collection of Andy Warhol art stolen from Westside home - Joel Rubin, LA Times
  
  
• Beaverbrook Art Gallery facelift receives $1.8M - CBC News
  
  
• Weak economy squeezes Fairbanks galleries, artists - Jeff Richardson, Fairbanks Daily News Miner
  
  
• Open the Storeroom: Let’s Put on a Show - Jori Finkel, NY Times
  
  
• Allee Willis, queen of kitsch - Yvonne Villarreal, LA Times
  
  

Friday, September 11 2009

• Gagosian in Talks to Open in Art Gallery in Paris, Dealers Say - Scott Reyburn, Bloomberg
  
  
• UBS to Close NYC Gallery, Keep Art Basel Sponsorship - Katya Kazakina, Bloomberg
  
  
• Doubling Down on the Art Market - Kelly Crow, WSJ
  
  
• The Tony Shafrazi Story - Lisa Zeitz, Artnet
  
  
• Frozen blood sculpture on display at National Portrait Gallery - London Telegraph
  
  
• Swiss to keep painting taken from Jews during WWII - Eliane Engeler (AP)
  
  

Thursday, September 10 2009

• Gallery wins dispute with Beaverbrook Foundation - Kathryn Blaze Carlson, National Post
  
  
• David Cowen Named President and CEO of Museum of American Finance - Reuters
  
  
• Taft Museum names director - Jackie Demaline, Cincinnati Enquirer
  
  
• San Diegan advances in bid to win return of Nazi-looted painting - Mike Boehm, LA Times
  
  
• Jewish Heirs, Sweden Settle 7-Year Feud Over Nazi-Looted Nolde - Catherine Hickley, Bloomberg
  
  

Wednesday, September 9 2009

• Photographer Leibovitz’s Deadline on $24 Million Loan Passes - Katya Kazakina, Bloomberg
  
  
• How art fairs fare in tough times: Focus on Asia, Chinese fare - China View
  
  
• Met Museum Director Assembles New Team - Carol Vogel, NY Times
  
  
• Court: Holocaust survivor can sue for painting - Raquel Maria Dillon (AP)
  
  
• Oprah Winfrey hosting Met's fashion gala - Samantha Critchell, AP
  
  

Tuesday, September 8 2009

• Art-world figures take issue with recap on ’80s resales that reclusive collector offers in new book - Eileen Kinsella, The Artnewsletter
  
  
• Jacko and Bubbles, Live Rabbits Signal New Era at Berlin Museum - Catherine Hickley, Bloomberg
  
  
• Polaroid to auction art - Greg Turner, Boston Herald
  
  
• Embattled Art Dealer Adds Another Lawsuit to Its Collection - Tresa Baldas, National Law Journal
  
  
• After first year, Smithsonian chief has big ideas - Brett Zongker, AP
  
  
• Lack of museum leaves gap in art education for Clark County students - Kristen Peterson, Las Vegas Sun
  
  
• Metropolitan cuts major loan shows by a quarter - Jason Edward Kaufman, The Art Newspaper
  
  
• Athens’ burgeoning contemporary art scene - Jason Edward Kaufman, The Art Newspaper
  
  
• Martin Parr to offer collection to nation - Cristina Ruiz, The Art Newspaper
  
  

Friday, September 4 2009

• The Mood of the Market, as Measured in the Galleries - Roberta Smith, NY Times
  
  

Thursday, September 3 2009

• Sotheby’s Corporate Credit Rating Is Cut One Level by Moody’s - Patrick Cole, Bloomberg News
  
  
• Reflections: Souren Melikian - Souren Melikian, Art + Auction
  
  
• Javier Lumbreras Launches First in Art Funds: Artemundi Global Fund - Reuters, PR Newswire
  
  
• Galleries forge ahead, despite economic uncertainty - Stephanie Buhmann, The Villager
  
  
• A new hidden layer found on an old painting - AFP
  
  
• Reflections: Judd Tully - Judd Tully, Art + Auction
  
  
• Art insurers on high alert for fraudulent claims - Cristina Ruiz, The Art Newspaper
  
  
• Contradiction Remains Vital to Pakistan and Its Art - Randy Kennedy, NY Times
  
  
• Museum Shooting Suspect: Frail but Defiant - Deirdre Hester, CBS News
  
  

Wednesday, September 2 2009

• Williams Sisters Portrait, Riggs’s Jacket Lead U.S.T.A. Auction - Philip Boroff, Bloomberg
  
  
• Van Gogh Hysteria, Kapoor’s Toothpaste Cannon: Autumn Art Picks - Martin Gayford, Bloomberg News
  
  
• Madoff Details, and Property, on Tap - Kara Scannell, WSJ
  
  
• Bridget Riley signs petition to stop sell-off of Southampton's art collection - Daily Echo
  
  
• Saatchi: Confessions of an art collector - London's Evening Standard
  
  
• Art sales: dealers decry Courtauld cuts - Colin Gleadell, Telegraph
  
  
• Allentown Art Museum gets substantial gift - Jodi Duckett, The Morning Call
  
  
• Holocaust museum shooting suspect to face hearing - AP
  
  

Tuesday, September 1 2009

• Artist Accuses Hilton Daughter of Failing to Pay $10 million for Artwork - Reuters, PR Newswire
  
  
• A Modern Artist Who Wielded Both Pen and Brush - Karen Rosenberg, NY Times
  
  
• Banksy art show draws in 300,000 - BBC News
  
  
• Art museums struggling in Mexico - Tracy Wilkinson, LA Times
  
  

Monday, August 31 2009

• Jim Lasko, Chicago's first artist in residence, to create epic cultural event for 2011 - Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune
  
  
• Opening Warhol's shuttered world - Kyle MacMillan, Denver Post
  
  
• Collector of Fashion and Art: Margot Siegel - Christy DeSmith, St. Paul magazine
  
  
• 30 things about art and life, as explained by Charles Saatchi - Guardian
  
  
• LAPD Searching for Art Dealer Wanted for Grand Theft - KTLA News
  
  
• New Home in an Old Money Town - Nancy Keates, WSJ
  
  
• Interview with Eli Broad - Naomi Schaffer Riley, WSJ
  
  

Friday, August 28 2009

• Leibovitz’s $40 Million Astor Barns, Townhouses Might Ease Debt - Katya Kazakina, Bloomberg
  
  
• Kinkade art auction money misses its mark - Bruce Colbert, Daily Courier
  
  
• Investing in the District - Kristen Peterson, Las Vegas Sun
  
  
• The Dog Made Me Do It - Taylor K. Vecsey, East Hampton Star
  
  
• The contemporary art collector - Francesca Gavin, Telegraph
  
  
• Doubts cast on authenticity of Picasso in Iraq - Sinan Salaheddin, AP
  
  

Thursday, August 27 2009

• Billionaire Frere Plans $1.6 Million Wine Auction for Charity - Scott Reyburn, Bloomberg
  
  
• A quiet master of modern collages - Carolyne Zinko, SF Gate
  
  
• Cable company, press group give money to LA museum - AP
  
  
• Met's Nude Bust - Justine Rocket Silverman, NY Post
  
  

Wednesday, August 26 2009

• The Graham Arader Sale - Lita Solis-Cohen, Maine Antiques Digest
  
  
• Happy Birthday, Peggy Guggenheim, Art Collector - Isabel Cowles, Finding Dulcinea
  
  
• Moscow Dealer Sues N.Y.C. Gallery Over $3 Million in Paintings - Katya Kazakina, Bloomberg
  
  

Tuesday, August 25 2009

• Yves Saint Laurent's house in Morocco up for sale - AP
  
  
• Winning bid for tomb above Marilyn Monroe at $4.6 million - Nancy Dillon, Daily News
  
  
• A High-Tech Home for Multimillion-Dollar Works of Art - Diane Cardwell, NY Times
  
  
• Getting the Band Back Together: S.F. Art Dealer Becomes Sixth Gay Grifter Suspect - Matt Smith, SF Weekly
  
  
• The tumultuous narrative of the Rose Art Museum - Hillel Buechler, The Justice
  
  

Monday, August 24 2009

• S.F. dealer accused of selling fake Miró prints - Henry K. Lee, SF Chronicle
  
  
• A Hotel Room With Only One Occupant: The Artist - Gisela Williams, NY Times
  
  
• Lunch with the FT: Jeff Koons - Peter Aspden, FT
  
  
• Paris' Picasso Museum shuts for 2-year renovation - AP
  
  

Friday, August 21 2009

• ‘Beat ‘Em To A Pulp!’ Painting Gussies Up Cowboys’ New Stadium - Patrick Cole, Bloomberg News
  
  
• Art Dealer Files Slander Action Against Claire Forlani - Milt Policzer, Courthouse News
  
  
• Fearing Attacks, Art Fair in India Won’t Show Works by Top Artist - Dave Itzkoff, NY Times
  
  
• Indsutry Insiders: Darin Rubell, Gallery Cat - Eiseley Tauginas, Black Book
  
  

Thursday, August 20 2009

• Forthcoming Frida Kahlo book denounced as fake - Jason Edward Kaufman, Art Newspaper
  
  
• Mona Lisa Teacup Attack Joins Loony Tradition of Defiling Art - Martin Gayford, Bloomberg News
  
  
• German police confiscate fake Giacomettis - AP
  
  
• Appeals court overturns Holocaust looted-art law, but Norton Simon suit continues - Mike Boehm, LA Times
  
  

Wednesday, August 19 2009

• David K. Anderson, art dealer, dies - Tom Buckham, Buffalo News
  
  
• Fed crackdown puts tribal artifact dealers on edge - Susan Montoya Bryan (AP)
  
  
• Michael Jackson Portrait by Warhol Fetches $1 Million - Philip Boroff, Bloomberg
  
  

Tuesday, August 18 2009

• Goldman Partly Owns $24 Million Leibovitz Loan, Offers to Help - Katya Kazakina, Bloomberg
  
  
• On the Block, a Peek Into the Lifestyle of Bob Guccione - James Barron, NY Times
  
  
• Behind Michael Govan's almost $1-million LACMA salary - Alan Zarembo And Mike Boehm, LA Times
  
  
• Painting nabbed from NYC museum returned by mail - AP
  
  

Monday, August 17 2009

• Art Sleuth Hunts Down Hidden Rembrandts, Fake Rockwells: Books - Catherine Hickley, Bloomberg
  
  
• That Wasn't the Deal, Collector Tells Gallery - Courthouse News Service
  
  
• Novice Art Collectors Should Follow Heart, Eyes - NY 1
  
  
• Art 101: Where can I see the work of great Atlanta artists? - Sam Dobrow, Atlanta Small Business Examiner
  
  
• Fred Tomaselli: Art with substance(s) - Stewart Oksenhorn, Aspen Times Weekly
  
  

Friday, August 14 2009

• Chinese police detain 11 who planned to attend activist's trial - Tania Branigan, Guardian
  
  
• Artist's fake drug dealing riles NYC residents - AP
  
  
• Jobs cut, hours reduced at Fresno Art Museum - Donald Munro, The Fresno Bee
  
  
• New curator, Britt Salvesen, to head two LACMA departments - Suzanne Muchnic, LA Times
  
  

Thursday, August 13 2009

• High Line plan is too taxing, neighbors cry - Patrick Hedlund, Villager
  
  
• The Buck Largesse Starts Here - Ruth McCann, Washington Post
  
  
• Vermeer's 'Milkmaid' to be loaned to NYC museum - AP
  
  

Wednesday, August 12 2009

• British Museum May Appeal Council Rejection of Expansion Design - Farah Nayeri, Bloomberg
  
  
• Culture Czar Must Say Art Means More Than Money - Jeremy Gerard, Bloomberg
  
  
• Dirty Dark Ages Freshen Up in Paris Exhibit on Bathing: Review - Jorg von Uthmann, Bloomberg
  
  
• Surrey art connoisseur finds 'magic' in Havana - Carolyn Cooke, Surrey Now
  
  
• Untrained artists connect with the heart - Lauren Fedor, East Hampton and Southampton Press
  
  
• When Creativity Diminishes Along With the Cash - Nicholai Ouroussof, NY Times
  
  
• O'Keeffe museum, NM school patch up differences - Deborah Baker (AP)
  
  

Tuesday, August 11 2009

• Restoration Work on Gifts of Art - Shelly Banjo, WSJ
  
  
• Woman attacks Mona Lisa - Henry Samuel, Telegraph
  
  
• Dealers decamping to vacation spots to score sales - Brook S. Mason, The Art Newspaper
  
  
• Consignors still without money, items as Ritchies's doors remain closed - James Bradshaw, Globe and Mail
  
  
• Art dealer to stand trial for fraud - Ann-Marie Nicholson, WPRI
  
  

Monday, August 10 2009

• Museum of Modern Art’s Lowry Earned $1.32 Million in 2008-2009 - Philip Boroff, Bloomberg
  
  
• Annie Leibovitz’s Epic N.Y. Renovations Spurred Lawsuit, Debt - Katya Kazakina, Bloomberg
  
  
• Antiques dealer suffers - Nick Goodway, London Evening Standard
  
  
• Kimbell’s art springs to cinematic life - Michael H. Price, Fort Worth Business Press
  
  
• New job for hot dog vendor booted by Metropolitan Museum of Art - Veronika Belenkaya and Samuel Goldsmith, Daily News
  
  

Friday, August 7 2009

• Same Time, Different Stories for Black Artists - Megan Dooley, Vineyard Gazette
  
  
• Struggling Portland art galleries look to the city for help - D.K. Row, Oregonian
  
  
• American Indian linked to federal artifacts looting case - Patty Henetz, The Salt Lake Tribune
  
  

Thursday, August 6 2009

• Artists find inspiration in Jolie, Pitt’s life, beliefs - David Zizzo, News OK
  
  
• Art Sales: a slap in the face to the Scottish market? - Colin Gleadell, Telegraph
  
  

Wednesday, August 5 2009

• Leibovitz May Have Better Luck in Bankruptcy Than Fighting Suit - Katya Kazakina, Bloomberg
  
  

Tuesday, August 4 2009

• Recession fuels attendance of artist sites and historic homes - Brook S. Mason, The Art Newspaper
  
  
• Alswang resigns as RISD Museum head - Bill Van Siclen Providence Journal
  
  
• Wieland to sell site for proposed Midtown luxury condo, gallery - Gertha Coffee, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  
  

Monday, August 3 2009

• A Legacy of War: Fake Art in Vietnam - Seth Mydans, NY Times
  
  
• Goering Hoards Nudes, Jingles Emeralds in Catalog of Looted Art - Catherine Hickley, Bloomberg
  
  
• Secrets of the Art Experts - Margaret Studer, WSJ
  
  

Friday, July 31 2009

• Flames Destroyed Peggy Cooper Cafritz's Home and, With It, a Major Cultural Legacy - Philip Kennicott, Washington Post
  
  
• Artist Sues Random House Over Use Of Wall St Bull Image - Chad Bray, Dow Jones
  
  
• San Diego Museum lands vast collection of ethnic art - Culture Monster, LA Times
  
  

Thursday, July 30 2009

• The Internet as Art - Goran Mijuk, WSJ
  
  
• Palm Springs Museum gets bonanza of contemporary art - Culture Monster, LA Times
  
  

Wednesday, July 29 2009

• Allentown Art Museum executive director to leave post - Jodi Duckett, The Morning Call
  
  
• UNC’s Ackland Art Museum hires curator away from Harvard - James Gallagher, Triangle Business Journal
  
  
• Location, Location as Billionaires Lured by Berkeley Square Art - Scott Reyburn, Bloomberg
  
  

Tuesday, July 28 2009

• Forbes’s $12.9 Million Art, Killers Picture, Scrimshaw for Sale - Scott Reyburn, Bloomberg
  
  
• Rose Art Museum lawsuit recalls the Barnes \'legal theft\' - Christopher Knight, LA Times
  
  

Monday, July 27 2009

• Top Billionaire Art Collectors - Keren Blankfeld, Cristina von Zeppelin and Susan Adams, Forbes
  
  
• Bargain Warhols, Secrecy Bring Collectors to Private Art Sales - Katya Kazakina, Bloomberg
  
  
• Castle-Owner Picasso Pays Tribute to Cezanne in Aix Exhibition - Jorg von Uthmann, Bloomberg
  
  
• Bauhaus Hosted ‘Metal Party,’ Raffled Klees, Modernized Design - Catherine Hickley, Bloomberg
  
  
• To Respond to Downturn, Museums Join Forces - Phillip Lutz, NY Times
  
  
• L.A.'s galleries reframe the recession - Suzanne Muchnic, LA Times
  
  
• The art of a recession: Gallery owners struggling - Amanda Lee Myers, AP
  
  

Friday, July 24 2009

• Va. Museum acquires prized German Expressionist art - Katherine Calos, Richmond Times-Dispatch
  
  
• Portrait of a Market Downturn - Kelly Crow, WSJ
  
  
• Pat Bell, Art Collector - Larry Dell, NY Times
  
  

Thursday, July 23 2009

• DIA now does wedding receptions - Cassandra Spratling, Detroit Free Press
  
  
• Gap Collection Exemplifies Art for the Sake of Relevance - Mike Duff, BNET
  
  

Wednesday, July 22 2009

• Fine art dealer placed into administration - Mario Christodoulou, Accountancy Age
  
  
• Hirst to Help Lance Armstrong's Health Charity Raise $4 Million - Scott Reyburn, Bloomberg
  
  

Tuesday, July 21 2009

• Hundreds Try out for Art-World Reality Show - Randy Kennedy, The New York Times
  
  
• The ARTnews 200 Top Collectors - Editors, ARTnews