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A stone club from British Columbia dating to possibly 1800 BC could be leaving the country by the end of the year if a Canadian institution doesn't buy it.
Late last month, after reviewing a report from an expert examiner, the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board agreed to a six-month delay on the export of the rare sculptured club to who is presumed to be an American buyer. The delay is to give a Canadian museum, gallery or “public authority” time to prepare a cash offer. It could be expensive: The club's value, as indicated on the application for an export permit made this year, is $250,000 (U.S.) read more »
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Late last month, after reviewing a report from an expert examiner, the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board agreed to a six-month delay on the export of the rare sculptured club to who is presumed to be an American buyer. The delay is to give a Canadian museum, gallery or “public authority” time to prepare a cash offer. It could be expensive: The club's value, as indicated on the application for an export permit made this year, is $250,000 (U.S.) read more »
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You buy a valuable painting from a reputable dealer and hang it on your wall. Years later, you learn that the painting was once stolen, decades before you bought it. The original owner sues you, and before you know it you've both lost your investment and racked up tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees. You can sue your dealer to try to recover your loss, but that drags the legal mess out even longer.
Disputes over ownership of artworks are common, often protracted, and costly. Well-publicized cases involving theft and Holocaust restitution have drawn attention to the risks involved in not knowing every place your art has been. But collectors can find themselves dragged in read more »
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Disputes over ownership of artworks are common, often protracted, and costly. Well-publicized cases involving theft and Holocaust restitution have drawn attention to the risks involved in not knowing every place your art has been. But collectors can find themselves dragged in read more »
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Three drawings by Spain's Francisco de Goya, presumed lost for 130 years, have fetched more than £4m at auction.
The three sketches, drawn between 1812 and 1829, had not been seen since 1877.
The top lot, Bajar rinendo (Down they come), shows four women fighting. It sold for £2,2m, a world record auction price for a Goya work on paper.
The auction, at Christie's in London, also saw La Surprise, by French artist Jean-Antoine Watteau, sell for £12.3m - another world record. read more »
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The three sketches, drawn between 1812 and 1829, had not been seen since 1877.
The top lot, Bajar rinendo (Down they come), shows four women fighting. It sold for £2,2m, a world record auction price for a Goya work on paper.
The auction, at Christie's in London, also saw La Surprise, by French artist Jean-Antoine Watteau, sell for £12.3m - another world record. read more »
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The new 32,000-square-foot building includes 12,000 square feet of state-of-the-art workspace, scientific labs and storage facilities. There are also education and meeting spaces and two small exhibition galleries for Clark-organized focus shows. Michael Conforti, the Clark's longtime director, hopes that the building will be more than a destination for art and architecture aficionados.
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According to the editor of Art Monthly, its latest cover is an effort to "restore dignity" to the discourse about the artistic portrayal of children. To its critics, including the Australin Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, it is "disgusting". What it has achieved is to bring to the boil a simmering row over the difference between art and pornography in a country with a long tradition of censorship
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The Italian government has been forced to declare a state of emergency at the archeological site of Pompeii because of its severe state of disrepair.
"To call the situation intolerable doesn't go far enough," said Culture Minister Sandro Bondi on Friday. She took office in Silvio Berlusconi's new conservative government in May. read more »
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"To call the situation intolerable doesn't go far enough," said Culture Minister Sandro Bondi on Friday. She took office in Silvio Berlusconi's new conservative government in May. read more »
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The transformation of London, a sleepy backwater for two decades, into an art capital that rivals New York has never been more apparent than in this past fortnight of auctions, with record prices fetched for works by artists ranging from Monet to Francis Bacon.
The weak dollar has made London an attractive place for Americans to sell. This city has also gained cachet as the stomping ground for rich denizens of the former Soviet Union, like the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich or the Ukrainian steel magnate Victor Pinchuk, both serious art collectors. read more »
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The weak dollar has made London an attractive place for Americans to sell. This city has also gained cachet as the stomping ground for rich denizens of the former Soviet Union, like the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich or the Ukrainian steel magnate Victor Pinchuk, both serious art collectors. read more »
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On June 17, Interpol held a conference in Lyon, France, to increase co-operation among its 186 member nations in the fight to retrieve stolen cultural property. Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, the rise of the Internet and the globalization of the world economy, trade in stolen art and antiquities has been rising steeply.
Interpol is the international police agency through which countries share information on international crime. Of the missing art objects now on Interpol's list, 516 were taken from Canadian collections. read more »
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Interpol is the international police agency through which countries share information on international crime. Of the missing art objects now on Interpol's list, 516 were taken from Canadian collections. read more »
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Christie's and Sotheby's, the world's two top auctioneers, have just completed a series of summer sales in London that raised more than $1-billion, underlining how resilient the top end of the market is despite growing economic gloom. But falling share prices, inflationary pressures and rising costs of oil appear to be taking their toll on the middle market.
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The art market rolls on in a seemingly endless boom regardless of subject, period or medium. On Monday night Christie's sold 48 works of contemporary art for £86.24 million, or $171.87 million.
The three big winners of the evening shared no other characteristic than the degree of attention that the artists had aroused in the news media. The highest price went to Francis Bacon's "Three Studies for Self Portrait," painted in 1975 while the British artist stayed in Paris. The three views of the painter's face are handled in his typical manner influenced by early 20th-century Expressionism, with violent distortions suggestive of drug-induced hallucinations. read more »
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The three big winners of the evening shared no other characteristic than the degree of attention that the artists had aroused in the news media. The highest price went to Francis Bacon's "Three Studies for Self Portrait," painted in 1975 while the British artist stayed in Paris. The three views of the painter's face are handled in his typical manner influenced by early 20th-century Expressionism, with violent distortions suggestive of drug-induced hallucinations. read more »
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FORGERIES have infiltrated the booming art market, making vulnerable the reputations of important Australian artists such as John Brack, Charles Blackman and Rover Thomas.
An art industry forum in Melbourne yesterday heard stories of some commercial galleries, dealers and auction houses attempting to pass off questionable paintings as authentic.
Since the early 1990s, Walter Granek, art consultant for the Charles Blackman Trust, has seen about 3000 Blackman works. Blackman was "one of the high-profile Australian artists who repeatedly have forgeries and fakes turning up in auction houses under their name", he said. read more »
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An art industry forum in Melbourne yesterday heard stories of some commercial galleries, dealers and auction houses attempting to pass off questionable paintings as authentic.
Since the early 1990s, Walter Granek, art consultant for the Charles Blackman Trust, has seen about 3000 Blackman works. Blackman was "one of the high-profile Australian artists who repeatedly have forgeries and fakes turning up in auction houses under their name", he said. read more »
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Con el título Beautiful inside my head forever Sotheby's sacará a subasta obras recientes del artista, entre las que destacan sus animales disecados y conservados en grandes tanques de formol, sus composiciones con mariposas disecadas, sus imágenes ampliadas de células cancerígenas o sus vitrinas de farmacia.
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It is the artists, and a certain line of thinking about art, that have given the people with the cash permission to buy and sell what amounts to nothing, and to do so for ever larger and more insane sums of money. All this sensational commerce is fueled by the anti-aesthetics that were born nearly a century ago among the Dadaists, and have by now morphed into the laissez-faire aesthetics that give collectors sanction to regard one of Jeff Koons's stainless-steel balloon animals as simultaneously a camp joke and a modern equivalent of a Tang dynasty horse.
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US Congress is currently debating legislation which will remove the penalty for copyright infringement if the creator of a work, after a diligent search, cannot be located. Libraries and archives are among the groups lobbying for the change to allow copying of so-called “orphan works”. The legislation would allow a rights holder who subsequently emerges to be paid the normal fee, but removes the currently costly statutory damages which rights’ holders can charge.
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Heavily armed robbers have stolen two engravings by Pablo Picasso from an art museum in downtown Sao Paulo. A museum spokeswoman for the Pinacoteca do Estado museum said thieves made the bold theft on Thursday morning.
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Police in B.C. say some of the artwork stolen from the University of British Columbia's Museum of Anthropology has been recovered.
Twelve works of gold jewelry by Haida artist Bill Reid and three Mexican necklaces comprised of gold coins were stolen from the museum overnight May 23 in a highly sophisticated break-in. read more »
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Twelve works of gold jewelry by Haida artist Bill Reid and three Mexican necklaces comprised of gold coins were stolen from the museum overnight May 23 in a highly sophisticated break-in. read more »
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Banna's censorship radar was already on high alert after the city removed a piece from an exhibit she curated at City Hall in May. The work by Brazilian photographer Vera Costa included a close-up shot of an exposed female breast.
City Attorney Shawn Mason said the city had a contract with the artist that explicitly allowed it to remove any works deemed inappropriate. read more »
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City Attorney Shawn Mason said the city had a contract with the artist that explicitly allowed it to remove any works deemed inappropriate. read more »
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Pope Benedict XVI has launched a campaign for a new era of religious art to rival the works of the Medicis. As religious themes become increasing influential among contemporary artists, the Holy See, which governs the Catholic Church, is searching for rich patrons to sponsor works in new houses of worship designed by cutting-edge architects.
In an attempt to "lead by example", the Pontifical Council for Culture is now setting up a committee to find "world-famous" contemporary artists it can commission to produce new religious and spiritual works. read more »
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In an attempt to "lead by example", the Pontifical Council for Culture is now setting up a committee to find "world-famous" contemporary artists it can commission to produce new religious and spiritual works. read more »
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