The Faking of the Russian Avant-Garde
With invented provenances, unreliable certificates of authenticity, and “rediscovered” works by artists who are lost to history, forgers are flooding galleries and auction houses with Russian...
View ArticleThe 2009 ARTnews 200 Top Collectors
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View ArticleHodler, Giacometti Star at Christie’s Swiss-Art Auction
In its auction of Swiss art on Sept. 21, Christie’s sold 120 lots—79 percent of the 151 lots offered—for a total of CHF 16.3 million ($15.75 million). Read More
View ArticleModern and Contemporary Art Yield Solid Results at Japanese Sales
As in most other countries, the effect of the global economic crisis on the Japanese art market last year was pronounced, and led to a number of major changes in the auction industry. Read More
View ArticleTwo responses to ‘A Controversy over Degas’
William D. Cohan’s article suggests that the art world today is divided into two warring camps about 74 recently revealed Degas plasters. In fact, far more consensus than controversy surrounds these...
View ArticleARTnews Wins a Clarion Award
ARTnews has won a 2010 Clarion Award, sponsored by the Association for Women in Communications, for excellence in reporting for the article “The Faking of the Russian Avant-Garde,” published in our...
View ArticleThe 2010 ARTnews 200 Top Collectors
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View ArticleThe Sitter Depicts the Artist
In a new book, Martin Gayford recalls what it's like to be painted by Lucian Freud. Read More
View ArticleARTnews Wins Silurians 2011 Excellence in Journalism Award
ARTnews has won the Society of the Silurians 2011 Excellence in Journalism Arts/Culture Award for a series of articles on the controversy surrounding 74 “recently discovered” plaster sculpture casts...
View ArticleContemporary Art on the Rise at Japanese Auctions
A contemporary art sale held by Shinwa Art Auction on April 14 realized ¥182.91 million ($1.5 million), up from the total of the previous, Dec. 2 sale of ¥129.14 million, or $1.1 million (ANL, 1/23/07,...
View Article$9.2M Bacon and $6.9M Mitchell Buoy Paris Auctions
With a total of €24.56 million ($32.9 million), Christie’s sale of contemporary art on May 30-31 yielded an all-time high for such an auction in France. Sotheby’s first contemporary sale in Paris on...
View ArticleSignac, Russell Share Top Honors At $35M Coeur d’Alene Auction
The annual Coeur d’Alene Art Auction of Western art once again reached a new high and set several records for individual artists. The auction, held July 28 at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nev.,...
View ArticleTop Ten ARTnews Stories: Sorting Out the Sunflowers
Timothy Ryback made sense of the heated debates over van Gogh forgeries. Read More
View ArticleTop Ten ARTnews Stories: Making a Difference
It began with Andrew Decker’s article on Austria’s halfhearted attempts to return thousands of artworks stolen from Holocaust victims. Our coverage has influenced cultural policy and helped make war...
View ArticleTop Ten ARTnews Stories: Exposing the Hidden ‘He’
Linda Nochlin on why Picasso couldn’t have been born a girl. Read More
View ArticleTop Ten ARTnews Stories: The First Word on Pop
A series of early interviews with the leaders of Pop art defined a movement. Read More
View ArticleTop Ten ARTnews Stories: Tracking the Trophy Brigade
Konstantin Akinsha and Grigorii Kozlov revealed the fate of thousands of artworks that disappeared into the Soviet Union after World War II. Read More
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