Same for that notorious fake Vermeer that fooled Hermann Goering, argues Noah Charney, who wrote the book on art forgery. He lays out his case against the painting found under a roof in Toulouse, then lays out a case for it – as art, if not as real Caravaggio.
Category: visual
5,000-Year-Old City Unearthed In Egypt
The first reports on this find in English, which came out just as the Thanksgiving holiday was starting, said that the ruins archaeologists found near Abydos in southern Egypt were 7,000 years old. That seems to have been a mistranslation from the initial news release in Arabic. Even so, this is one of the earliest settlements yet found in the country.
‘The Pérez Art Museum Miami Just Got A Lot More Pérez – $15 Million Worth’
“The longtime arts supporter for whom the 3-year-old public museum is named, Jorge Pérez, has pledged a multimillion-dollar gift to the museum over the next 10 years with specific instructions. The goal: to acquire the works of Cuban and Latin American artists and bolster the museum’s endowment.”
Why Gerhard Richter Keeps Destroying Hudreds Of Millions Of Dollars Worth Of His Work
“These were not newly finished pieces that failed to meet his vision or standards; in many cases, they were paintings that had appeared in exhibitions and shows—paintings that Der Spiegel estimates would now be worth around $655 million—before Richter eventually deemed them unworthy.”
So A Man Goes Into An Auction And Buys A Painting. He Turns Around And Sells It At Huge Profit. Now The Seller Is Mad At The Auction House
The auction house is Sotheby’s and the sellers have big questions. “The traders asked Sotheby’s, according to court papers, whether it had been aware that there was a much higher price to be had for the painting. Hadn’t Sotheby’s taken the painting, presale, to an apartment where the Russian billionaire had viewed it? Were the traders misled to favor the Swiss dealer, a valued Sotheby’s client named Yves Bouvier?”
Trump Architecture Through The Decades – A Review
“The Trump Organization does not seem to be guided by any feeling for what it wants its buildings to look like, and obviously not (given the propensity of its projects to land in the red) by simple economic horse sense. Not only is there no there there, but the more theres they build, the less there there is.”
Norman Foster Wins Competition To Design Prado Extension
First proposed by the Spanish government in 1995, the project to restore the only surviving part of Philip IV’s Buen Retiro pleasure palace, which housed Spain’s Army Museum until 2005, has been hampered by years of austerity. The building was officially assigned to the nearby Prado last October.
Detroit’s Contemporary Art Scene Is Flourishing. So Detroit Institute Of Arts Plans A Contemporary Makeover
“A DIA more fully engaged with the art of our time could have a catalytic influence on Detroit’s cultural scene and the artists who live and work here — especially at a time when there’s so much action in artists’ studios, in the galleries and on the street.”
Miami’s Still Not Hot At The Whitney Biennial
The larger art world seemed on the verge of picking Miami as a cultural hot spot back in 2008, four Biennials ago, before it all went not exactly south but more like someplace else, to places whose artists address the politics of the world.
A Modern Temple Of Brutalism That Not Only Actually Works, But Sets A Gold Standard
The Louis Kahn-designed Jonas Salk Institute has turned 50, but it’s holding up better than most buildings its age. Plus, it works beautifully: “‘I would say this is the best way to build a laboratory building,’ says Thomas Albright, a neurobiologist who has worked at the Salk for three decades.”