Is Damien Hirst a Serial Plagiarist? (ARTINFO)

ARTINFO – Damien Hirst has been accused of a lot of things in his day — from peeing in the sinks of posh Soho clubs in his early years to, of late, making “ugly, ugly, ugly” paintings — and one of the more persistent allegations has been that the bad-boy YBA is a little too [...]

ADVISORY-Lloyd Webber art exhibition story withdrawn (Reuters)

Reuters – Please be advised that Friday’s London story saying composer Andrew Lloyd Webber’s private art collection is to go on show this month is wrong. The exhibition has already taken place. The following story has been withdrawn.
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Spruced Up, Van Gogh’s “Bedroom” Returns to View (ARTINFO)

ARTINFO – Vincent van Gogh spent much of his adult life alternately browbeating and charming his brother Theo into sending him money, since he was unable to generate much income selling his art. Theo unfailingly complied, but Vincent nevertheless lived a life of rather serious poverty. Thankfully, society treats the artist’s paintings a bit better [...]

Billionaire Carlos Slim Readies $750 Million Mexico City Museum (ARTINFO)

ARTINFO – Mexico City’s burgeoning art scene will welcome a new private museum in November, when billionaire collector Carlos Slim inaugurates a new branch of his Soumaya museum. The $750-million project — that’s 50 percent more than SFMOMA plans to spend on its recently announced expansion, for those keeping track at home — has been [...]

Curator Cancels Ansel Adams Authentication Claim (ARTINFO)

ARTINFO – Though entrepreneur Rick Norsigian continues to argue that photographic negatives he purchased at a California garage sale are the work of famed American photographer Ansel Adams, the evidence supporting that stance is quickly unraveling. One of the experts that had authenticated the works, former Museum of Fine Arts, Boston curator Robert C. Moeller [...]

Gagosian to Open Deluxe Gallery in Paris’s “Golden Triangle” (ARTINFO)

ARTINFO – Art dealer Larry Gagosian has finally lifted the veil on plans his new gallery in Paris, announcing that he will open at the heart of in the city’s “Golden Triangle” off the Champs Élysées on October 20th.
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$175 Million California Car Auctions Offer a Test Drive of the Art Market (ARTINFO)

ARTINFO – For anyone looking to gauge the art market’s health as September approaches, California’s recent near-$175 million series of high-profile classic car auctions in Monterey and Pebble Beach provided a possible indicator, echoing trends in this year’s New York and London fine-art sales as buyers pursued rarity and provenance. The two fields also shared [...]

A Prize Ham Hammers for $1.6 Million at a Kentucky Auction (ARTINFO)

ARTINFO – “Are pigs the new cats?” New York Magazine fashion blog The Cut asked this week, noting the sudden omnipresence of porcine creatures in the fashion world as the animal-accessory of choice. Now ARTINFO has a question to ask: Are hams the new Hirsts? A 16-pound country ham earned an outsize, contemporary-art-style $1.6 million [...]

Franklin named director of Cleveland Museum of Art (AP)

AP – The Cleveland Museum of Art has hired a new director.

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Italy Cracks $11.2 Million Art Forgery Ring (ARTINFO)

ARTINFO – Italian authorities working on art investigations have been busy in recent years, very publicly hunting down ancient artifacts that they allege were smuggled out of the country, including the Getty Museum’s bronze sculpture of a young man. However, after an announcement of 12 arrests made in connection with an alleged forgery ring, it [...]

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