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6 Apr 2011, 8:14 am
The painting, Two Tahitian Woman, was on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and was value at $80,000,000. [read post]
24 Apr 2020, 1:23 pm
To be honest, it's a bit like shooting fish in a barrel, given that the deaccessioning police cannot seem to provide even a colorably coherent explanation of why it is repulsive to sell a work of art for the purpose of saving a museum, but totally fine to sell a work of art because the museum wants to own a different one. [read post]
17 Jul 2008, 11:40 pm
I would think that Vuitton (and, perhaps, the museum) has a pretty strong defense to a willfulness charge since they are not really in the art-selling business and therefore wouldn't have reason to know about something the LA Times calls "an obscure chapter of the California Civil Code called the Fine Prints Act. [read post]
14 Jan 2015, 2:19 pm
Dowd will address the topic Nazi Art Looting, Stolen Art and Our Museums: Why The Ghosts of The Past Still Haunt Us. [read post]
7 Dec 2013, 9:49 am
His art has been shown at many museums, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts… But the city of Philadelphia has other plans for his property. [read post]
31 Jan 2014, 11:49 am
The Army’s Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program recruited the group known as the Monuments Men (although there were also Monuments Women), and they used these albums to return treasures to their rightful owners. [read post]
13 Feb 2024, 2:12 pm
However, MoMA contested the seizure, invoking New York’s Arts and Cultural Affairs Law, which exempts works of fine art from seizure while on display in a museum. [read post]
15 May 2014, 2:28 pm
., and Singleton-Biss Museum of Fine Art, Inc., on their claims for intentional interference with prospective business advantage and defamation…. [read post]
31 May 2017, 9:39 pm
Jewelry and Art Theft Is a Federal Crime The theft of jewels and art is a serious federal crime punishable by high fines and lengthy prison sentences. [read post]
31 May 2017, 9:39 pm
Jewelry and Art Theft Is a Federal Crime The theft of jewels and art is a serious federal crime punishable by high fines and lengthy prison sentences. [read post]
7 Jan 2011, 5:43 am
How DARE the museum sell them? [read post]
14 Dec 2011, 11:00 am
"And he says Walton's "impulses and her museum are admirable, whatever you think of Walmart":"Walmart is a public company, now — it’s owned by hundreds of thousands of individual and institutional shareholders. ...Walmart has been good to Alice Walton, and she’s giving back to Bentonville and to America by building a fine museum in a part of the country which is relatively starved for cultural goodness. ... [read post]
26 Jan 2008, 5:58 pm
The Museum of Fine Arts, citing months of research, maintained that the sale in 1939 was voluntary and to another Jew, the Viennese art dealer Otto Kallir. [read post]
11 Dec 2018, 8:10 am
One of the glorious features of contemporary art is that any material — tangled museum ropes, used lipstick tubes, untreated lumber — can be made interesting with the aid of a canny framing.... [read post]
21 Feb 2018, 3:32 am
Known by his art world pseudonym “SMASH 137,” Falkner’s works have been displayed around the world in various museums and galleries. [read post]
25 Nov 2015, 7:55 am
One blogger’s partial defense of “Kimono Wednesdays” suggests that while it was fine to let visitors [at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston] try on the kimonos, allowing them to be photographed while wearing them was a step too far. [read post]
5 Feb 2007, 7:42 pm
WHYY in Philadelphia did a show this morning on the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts' sale of Eakins's Cello Player in order to help pay for The Gross Clinic, mentioned earlier here and here. [read post]
9 Mar 2023, 4:37 am
By showcasing a remarkable selection of masterpieces (visitors are greeted by the Discobolus Lancellotti and end their tour under the ecstatic gaze of Tiziano’s Danae), the exhibition offers a novel look into a chapter of World War II that is often reduced to the intervention, during the conflict’s final years, of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program (better known as Monuments Men). [read post]
5 Feb 2009, 8:37 pm
"'We're saying we're turning it into a gallery and a teaching site for the faculty of the fine arts,' Reinharz told the Globe. 'We don't want to be in the public museum business.' "As for the art, Reinharz clarified that the university does not intend to put all 7,180 works up on the auction block. [read post]
14 Apr 2023, 4:29 am
As can be seen in the case studies below, the only organization that is not an artist-endowed foundation (AEF) is the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, a museum. [read post]
