Jan Six with the rediscovered Rembrandt.News Feed

Dutch Art Dealer Rediscovers a Rembrandt

Reuters / May 16th, 2018

Dutch art dealer Jan Six says he knew right away that a painting catalogued as by an unknown artist, in the circle of Rembrandt van Rijn, was the work of the master himself. “I saw so many details pointing in Rembrandt’s direction, ...

Oil on cloth laid to canvas by Marietta Berman (Czech., 1917-1990), painted in 1980 and measuring 67 inches by 51.5 inches (est. $1,000-$2,000).Calendar

Crescent City Auction Gallery Estates Auction, May 19-20

New Orleans / May 19-20, 2018

Crescent City Auction Gallery’s Important Estates Auction is set for the weekend of May 19-20, online and in the gallery at 1330 St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, La. Featured will be period American and French furniture, original...

The Martyrdom of Saint Valeria and Saint Martial by the Vatican Mosaic Studio was displayed at St. Peter's Basilica and the Studio for nearly a century.Blogs

Divine Provenance: The Vatican Micromosaic

Beauty, Rarity, History...The M.S. Rau Antiques Blog / March 29th, 2018 10:53

Everyone loves a good story. In the realm of fine art and antiques, a good story, or what we call “provenance”, has the power to take a work of art from exceptional to awe-inspiring. In terms of workmanship, subject matter and sheer...

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, from 1633, is the only seascape by the Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt van Rijn. It was cut from its frame and stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1990.

Man Busted in Fraud Scam After Offering Gardner Museum's Missing Masterpieces on Craigslist

Boston Herald / May 16th, 2018

A West Virginia man has pleaded guilty to wire fraud for offering online two stolen artworks from the Gardner Museum in Boston. Todd Andrew Desper was sentenced by a U.S. District Court judge to time served and three years of ...

Synograph of Sarah Bird’s painting Inkberry Holly.

Actress Portia de Rossi Launches a New Kind of Art Venture

AD / May 15th, 2018

"Arrested Development" actress Portia de Rossi is working with Fujifilm to democratize art. And her company's motivation is also it's motto: Support Artists. Not Art. De Rossi's new venture, called General Public, collaborates with ...

Rendering of the renovated entrance for Tower of David Museum.

Museum in Jerusalem to Get $40 Million Expansion and Refreshed Content

Haaretz / May 15th, 2018

The Tower of David Museum of the History of Jerusalem is gearing up for a $40 million expansion in 2019. Part of the renovation will be an enhanced entrance, which will be repositioned on the west side, plus a new wing, archaeological ...

Amedeo Modigliani, “Nu couche (sur le cote gauche)," 1917.

Modigliani Nude Fetches $157.2 Million at Sotheby's

ArtfixDaily / May 14th, 2018

Amedeo Modigliani's largest work and his greatest nude has become the most valuable artwork ever sold at Sothebys—selling for $157 million in the May 14 Impressionist & Modern Evening Sale. Nu couché was acquired by its previous ...

Henry Moore – THREE SEATED WOMEN, 1942.

Protest Planned Outside Sotheby's Over Berkshire Museum Art Sales

ArtfixDaily / May 12th, 2018

The grassroots citizens' group Save the Art – Save the Museum has invited fellow supporters to join a permitted protest at Sotheby’s on Monday, May 14 from 5:45 to 7 p.m. at 1334 York Avenue in New York City. The protest is timed to ...

contemporary art

Kerry James Marshall's Past Times (1997) set a new record for a living African American artist of $21.1m with fees
Record Prices Abound at Sotheby's $392 Million Contemporary Art Sale

european art

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, from 1633, is the only seascape by the Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt van Rijn. It was cut from its frame and stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1990.
Man Busted in Fraud Scam After Offering Gardner Museum's Missing Masterpieces on Craigslist

antiquities

Rendering of the renovated entrance for Tower of David Museum.
Museum in Jerusalem to Get $40 Million Expansion and Refreshed Content

latin american art

Diego Rivera, The Rivals, 1931, oil on canvas, sold for $9.76 million.
Diego Rivera, American Art Hits Record Prices in $106 Million Rockefeller Sale

sculpture

Christo The Mastaba (Project for London, Hyde Park, Serpentine Lake) Drawing 2018 in two parts 15 x 96" and 42 x 96" (38 x 244 cm and 106.6 x 244 cm) Pencil, charcoal, wax crayon, enamel paint, hand-drawn map on vellum, technical data, mylar and tape Photo: André Grossmann © 2018 Christo
Christo to Float 150-Ton Barrel Sculpture on London Lake

architecture

Art Dealer Graham Arader Lists His Antiques-Filled Hudson River Estate

design

Pepes were featured in the first ever rare digital art auction. The frog meme has been linked to the alt-right.
Digital Art Jumps on the Blockchain Bandwagon

general antiques & arts

Rogier van der Weyden’s Justice of Trajan and Herkinbald was destroyed in a fire in the late 17th century. A 15th century tapestry that had copied part of its design is all that remains.
The Museum of Lost Art
 

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