Category: visual

“Spain’s austerity drive halts work in the artist’s home town.”

“From Thursday, creations by the likes of Holbein, Hogarth and Hirst will be appearing on bus shelters, in cabs, and even in pubs.”

“I ordered this product back in June for $1.4 million, but in July I found a similar painting by Van Gogh on sale at Target for only $800k, so I returned this one and had to pay a $14.99 restocking fee, ridiculous!!!” (There’s lots more where that came from.)

“Museum officials say the garden has had to be resodded twice because of the higher temperatures created by sunlight bouncing off the glass; that some trees have burned; and that light-blocking panels were needed for the roof during a recent Ken Price sculpture retrospective.”

“Amazon Art is showcasing more than 40,000 works from more than 150 galleries in the US. Works range from a $44 (£29) cat portrait to Norman Rockwell’s Willie Gillis: Package from Home, being offered for sale at $4.85m (£3.12m).”

“We’re pert near 100-per-cent convinced it’s a Hopper,” says Ron Flarity. And a 61-page report, summarizing the forensic testing, is now circulating through the art world. If he’s right (and if previous prices realized at auction are any indication), the oil’s depiction of two women and one dog outside a sun-blasted Cape Cod-style house could be worth millions.

“In a world in which most people, whether from ambition or greed, want to discover originals rather than forgeries, connoisseurs and scientists can often be the forger’s best friends.”

“Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr announced Monday that he has contracted with Christie’s Appraisals, the New York-based international auction house, to appraise the collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts.”

“What’s strange about the story is that, according to the Detroit News, Christie’s was brought in to appease unsecured bondholders, i.e. a class of creditors who have, generally speaking, a very legally specious claim to city assets in the first place, charitable holdings held in trust notwithstanding.”