“How did a painting that was once coveted by museum directors and collectors alike simply disappear? And how can a work of art suddenly be deemed inauthentic, after more than a century of authenticity?” - Hyperallergic
Or his, of course. For instance, "Picasso’s palette from 1961 recently fetched £56,250 at auction despite being made of cardboard.” - The Guardian (UK)
Nothing good. “Is a commercial art gallery willing to risk litigation if it dares to offer one of Warhol’s Prince or Marilyn silk-screens ‘for sale?’ What if another commercial gallery across town is offering a retrospective survey of Goldsmith’s rock star photos or Korman’s publicity shots?” - Oregon ArtsWatch
Sure, it was cooler in the 1990s. And true, “the prize has sometimes struggled to find the balance between challenging assumptions and maintaining a sense of fun.” Yet … - The Guardian (UK)
The luxurious Ladies Lounge at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Hobart had sought to highlight historic misogyny by banning male visitors from entering. It was forced to shut in May when one affected patron sued the gallery for gender discrimination and won. - BBC
To protest the prison sentences given today to the original climate-protesting art vandals, three of their comrades went to the National Gallery in London and assaulted the very same painting with almost the same liquid. (This time they used Heinz vegetable soup instead of tomato.) - Artnet
A cursory glance at auction results over the last two years is enough to realize they have been middling at best, but JP Mei & MA Moses Art Market Consultancy—which sold its fine art indices to Sotheby’s in 2016—quantified the decline. - ARTnews
Abraham Bredius was director of the Mauritshuis in The Hague 1889-1919, and he bequeathed 25 Rembrandts and other Old Master paintings to the museum on condition that they be displayed. Only five are on public view, so Bredius's heirs say the Mauritshuis is violating the bequest's terms. - The New York Times
According to Claire Nicholson, chair of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain and a retired lecturer at Cambridge University, “Bloomsbury dressing is creative and individual.” - The Wall Street Journal
Sotheby’s had been riding a rollicking art market wave in recent years, bringing in at least $7 billion in sales annually and setting record-level prices. Now, amid signs cash is running low, it is pushing off payments to its art shippers and conservators by as much as six months. - The Wall Street Journal
"In a library, you create your own narrative. The material in the Heritage Library is of such a caliber that it could be considered works of art, so this really makes this building both a museum and a library.” - The New York Times
London’s historic Evening Standard newspaper has been making plans to revive its former writer using artificial intelligence. Two sources said AI Sewell has been assigned to review The National Gallery’s new Vincent van Gogh exhibition, titled Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers. - ARTnews
The owners of this 1623 portrait want to sell it abroad, where it can command a much higher price than in Spain. On the chance that it's a Velázquez — the attribution is considered questionable — authorities have prohibited its export. Spain's Supreme Court is now considering the case. - El País (Spain) (in English)
