Museums
In the latest developments from last summer’s discovery of extensive fraud involving some of the most prominent members of Germany’s art world, a multimillion dollar civil lawsuit has been filed against the Cologne-based auction house Lempertz. The €2.8 million ($3.7 million) suit cites “Rotes Bild mit Pferden” a painting thought to be...
The Saatchi Gallery’s “Gesamtkunstwerk: New Art from Germany” opened today as a showcase for 24 of Germany’s best artists, and while some of the names are familiar — Julian Rosefeldt, Thomas Zipp, Josephine Meckseper, and Andro Wekua among them — others are decidedly under the radar, at least on the...
Showing Alberto Giacometti's best-known works — "Walking Man," "Tall Standing Woman," and the "Woman of Venice" series — alongside the art of an ancient culture dating to 900 B.C. comes as a bit of a curatorial surprise. But that is just what the Pinacothèque is doing, in "Giacometti and the Etruscans," a new show of 30 sculptures by the...
The long odyssey of a painting by Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens that was stolen from a Belgian museum ten years ago is finally coming to an end. Two people have been arrested in Greece and charged with possession of stolen property after the canvas was found with them, though they are not believed to be the original art...
Vincenzo Peruggia breathed in heavily the scent of his sweat as he waited, barely willing to exhale, in the tight, dark closet beside the Salle des Sept Martres gallery in the Louvre. He listened for the footfalls of the guards. They gradually grew louder in a painfully slow crescendo. For an exquisite moment they seemed to stop right...
An unregulated domain where the success of multimillion-dollar transactions, the trajectory of careers, and the kindness of the historical record often come down to personal relationships, the modern art world has always been hotbed, literally, of power couples — pairs of dedicated strivers who seal their mutual pursuit of art's...
