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Article date: Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Dmitry Rybolovlev, Seller of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi, Held by Police in Corruption Probe

AS Monaco owner Dmitry Rybolovlev claims art dealer Yves Bouvier has cheated him out of $1 billion over a 10-year period. He was detained by police for questioning on Tuesday as part of an investigation into corruption and influence peddling. Le Monde report that the Russian tycoons luxury home La Belle Epoque had also been raided by police.

Article date: Sunday, October 28, 2018

Chop Suey, 1929 — the Most Iconic Edward Hopper Painting Left in Private Hands

After touring to Paris, New York, Hong Kong and and Los Angeles, this masterpiece will be offered on 13 November from the collection of Barney A. Ebsworth. ‘In New York’s restaurants, women, especially young ones, were on public display as never before,’ explains Patti Junker, curator of American art at the Seattle Art Museum. ‘Hopper’s restaurant pictures all focus on these young working-class women, and thus they understand something essential about the character of the modern city in which he painted.

Article date: Tuesday, October 23, 2018

The 25th Wolfgang Hahn Prize Goes to the Brazilian Artist Jac Leirner

In 2019, the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst am Museum Ludwig is awarding the Wolfgang Hahn Prize to Jac Leirner. For many years now, the work of the Brazilian artist (b. 1961 in São Paulo) has engaged in a subtle analysis of social and representational systems. Found, often industrially produced everyday objects play an important role here; following the principle of collecting, accumulating, and classifying, Leirner uses them to create installations, collages, and sculptures.

Article date: Monday, October 22, 2018

Four Portraits of the Women who Loved and Were Loved by Picasso

Picasso’s love affairs were legendary and they fuelled his creativity. Ahead of the sale of four portraits of his different muses from the Sam Rose and Julie Walters Collection, we focus on the women he came to depend on so passionately.

Article date: Sunday, October 21, 2018

12,000-Year-Old Human Fossil Fragments Recovered From Burnt Brazil Museum

Brazilian officials said Friday they have recovered pieces of a 12,000-year-old fossil of a neolithic woman that was among the prized artifacts in Rio de Janeiro's burnt down National Museum.

Article date: Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Swedish Group Barnebys Acquires The World's Leading Online Art & Collectables Appraisals Service – 'Valuemystuff'

The service that has ‘discovered’ a Claude Monet painting valued at £1.5m, a Medieval chastity belt valued at £2,000, a mid 19th-century golf ball valued at £20,000, and a request to value a mother-in-law, is the latest acquisition by Barnebys, the world’s leading search engine for art and collectibles.

Article date: Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Debt Collectors Enlisted to Attend Press Conference Held by Catherine de Zegher and Igor Toporovski

At a heavily attended press conference held by Leo Neels, Catherine de Zegher and Igor Toporovski, the five experts and dealers from London, New York, Dusseldorf and Bath to request the recording have filed a lawsuit against Catherine de Zegher.

Article date: Wednesday, October 17, 2018

"Research Has Shown that the Avant-Garde Works Presented at the MSK Earlier this Year, are the Original Avant-Garde Pieces"

Brussels - Tests conducted last year at the MSK in Ghent have resulted in evidence that clearly and indisputably proves the works of the controversial Toporovski collection are genuine and authentic. This is what the suspended director of the MSK, Catherine de Zegher, announced on Wednesday at a press conference. Before the press conference could begin, two bailiffs entered the premises with a petition.

Article date: Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Pop-Art Artist Mel Ramos dies at 83

Melvin Ramos, The Sacramento-born Pop art painter Mel Ramos, known for appropriated cartoon imagery and randy depictions of nude women incongruously set among commercial icons, has died. Mel Ramos was an American figurative painter, specializing most often in paintings of female nudes, whose work incorporates elements of realist and abstract art.

Article date: Monday, October 15, 2018

Preserving the Cultural Heritage of the World: Interview with Maurizio Tuccio, CEO of Piql Italy

To celebrate 2018 as the European Year of Cultural Heritage, Piql will preserve the top ten European cultural relics in the Arctic World Archive, for the following 500 years. These relics will join existing treasures such as digitised manuscripts from the Vatican Library and Edvard Munch’s The Scream.

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