Art Market News 2017
Rare Chen Wen Hsi works on display – The Straits Time
Why it’s time to talk seriously about digital reproductions – Apollo Magazine
Two Raphael paintings unearthed at the Vatican after 500 years – CNN
Getty Research Institute Acquires Mary Kelly Archive – Artnews
A New Scientific Technique Reveals How Ancient Humans Made Art – Artnet
Drip dry: Moca LA to restore Pollock painting in its galleries The Art Newspaper
Buyer Beware: Regulatory Changes in Art Investment – Camden FB
Wassenaars atelier weigert mogelijk miljoenenschilderij te retourneren – Algemeen Dagblad
Juridisch gevecht om schilderij met potentiële waarde van 60 miljoen euro. – Omroep West
Ruzie over ’Malevich’ – Leidsch Dagblad
Re-discoveries lead London Old Master auctions – The Art Newspaper
Passion, Not Profit, Is the Biggest Motivator for Collectors, a New Study Says – Artnet
Robot — A New Tool for Artists – Art Goda
Found in an Attic, a Trove of Quirky Works by Warhol and Basquiat Is Heading to Auction – Artnet
Sotheby’s scientists just scored a big win in the battle against fake art – Fast Company
Can Museum Curators Ever Moonlight as Art Advisors Without Corrupting Themselves? – Artnet
Kunstmatige intelligentie herkent de echte Picasso – Kennislink
Op stap met een deeltjesdetector – NRC Handelsblad
Nude art and censorship laid bare – CNN
‘Gods in Color’ returns antiquities to their original, colorful grandeur – CNN
Was a ‘double-bind guarantee’ behind the $450m Leonardo sale? – The Art Newspaper
Middle East anti-fake drive triggers refund – The Art Newspaper
UK museums’ right to charge image fees is called into question – The Art Newspaper
New Research Project to Focus on Use of Nuclear Techniques in Forensic Science – The IAEA
The art of the fake: Forgers are the art world’s antiheroes – Salon
Rare Hitler painting donated to Dutch wartime institute – The Jakarta Post
Niod ontvangt aquarel van Adolf Hitler, eerste schilderij in Nederlands bezit – De Volkskrant
Artificial Intelligence Can Now Spot Art Forgeries by Comparing Brush Strokes – Artnet
This AI algorithm probably means the end of high-end art forgeries – Quartz
AI spots art fakes by examining a single brushstroke – Engadget
Art-ificial intelligence can spot a forged painting from just one brush stroke – Alphr
This AI spots art fakes in a single brush stroke – The Memo
New AI tells masterpieces from forgeries by only looking at brush strokes – ZMEScience
ome l’Intelligenza Artificiale scova il falso d’autore – Fastweb
Ecco L’IA Che e in Grado di Identificare le Opere D’Arte False -Everyeye
AI can catch art forgers at a stroke – The Times
So You Just Bought a $450 Million Leonardo da Vinci Painting. Now What? – Artnet
This AI Can Spot Art Forgeries by Looking at One Brushstroke – MIT Technology Review
Slim algoritme kan vervalste kunst ontdekken – NU
The Epic Story of Picasso’s Guernica at War and Peace Revealed Online by the Reina Sofía – Artnet
Former Met director sparks Instagram spat over $450m Leonardo da Vinci – The Art Newspaper
How to Maintain an Artwork – Mutual Art
Museums’ licensing demands are a pernicious tax on scholarship – The Art Newspaper
Why Are Critics Calling the $450 Million Painting Fake? – Bloomberg
Why are there so few portraits of Mary, Queen of Scots? – Apollo Magazine
Christie’s da Vinci Auction Reveals Why Forgers Love to Fake Masters – Observer
Fake news: Queen Victoria’s Cranach turns out to be the real thing – The Guardian
Darkest material on Earth will create a ‘schism in space’ for the Winter Olympics – CNN
The Forgeries – Blouin Artinfo
Alec Baldwin gets seven-figure settlement in art-fraud lawsuit – Page Six
Art Fakes Loom Over Modigliani Madness – Daily Beast
What Is Leonardo’s ‘Salvator Mundi’ Really Selling? Cracking the $100 Million da Vinci Code – Artnet
Expert studies reveal Black Rectangle, Red Square was produced after 1950 – The Art Newspaper
Black Square, Red Faces – Handelsblatt
Inside the Underground World of Legal Art Forgery – Architectural Digest
Mr del Piombo, I presume? The increasingly contentious field of art authentication – Collyer Bristow
Overcoming Resistance to Digital Change – Knowledge
Face to face with Murillo at the Frick – Apollo Magazine
Grasshopper found in Van Gogh painting – The Art Newspaper
Ultra-rich will spend $2.7 trillion on art by 2026 says Deloitte – The Art Newspaper
Duke’s Auctioneers fined over Alfred Wallis fakes – BBC
Former Stedelijk director Beatrix Ruf blames ‘misunderstanding’ for departure – The Art Newspaper
A Cardboard Box for Rare Warhol Prints Went Missing. Now a Dealer Wants $250,000 for It. – Artnet
Museum fees are killing art history, say academics – The Times
French Lawyer Raises Calder Foundation Questions – Artmarket Monitor
Auction house Duke’s fined for offering fake Alfred Wallis works – Antiques Trade Gazette
Father, son get back $2.8m they paid for fake art – The Straits Times
Solving art’s mysteries online – Apollo Magazine
Rembrandt and Other Dutch Masters Are Coming to a VR Headset Near You – Artnet
Rockefeller’s Matisse and Léger fireplaces reunited in Houston – The Art Newspaper
Unveiling the Project and a recently rediscovered Jordaens – Jordaens Van Dyck Project
Roman museum aims to become the primary reference for scholarship on the artist – The Art Newspaper
Important Constable Rediscovered After 50 Years – Sotheby’s
New Method for Dating Prehispanic Paintings – Mexico News Network
The Most Faked Artists in History – Mutual Art
Stedelijk Museum: toezicht op Beatrix Ruf deugde van geen kant – Elsevier
How Many “Lost” Masterpieces Are Already Hanging in Museums? – Artsy
The Science of Art Conservation // Dustin Dunaway – Yale News
Mysterious Anomaly in Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi – Blouin Artinfo
Trump’s Renoir painting is not real, Chicago museum says – BBC
The Secret Lives of Leonardo da Vinci – The New Yorker
The Toilet of Venus – The National Gallery
Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry – The National gallery
Mystery over Christ’s orb in $100m Leonardo da Vinci painting – The Guardian
Beatrice Ruf stapt op als directeur Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam – NRC Handelsblad
Everything in This Museum Is Fake – Smithsonian Magazine
The Gray Market: Why Christie’s ‘Salvator Mundi’ Sale Is Riskier Than It Seems – Artnet
Donald Trump’s ‘Renoir’ raises questions – The Art Newspaper
See What the Top 200 Collectors Bought in the Past Year – Artnews
Directeur Stedelijk Museum klust voor tonnen bij met kunstadvies – Elsevier
MFA to Receive Landmark Gifts of Dutch and Flemish Art – Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Christie’s to sell Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi – The Art Newspaper
The Science Behind Mona Lisa’s Smile – The Atlantic
Vermist portret Ferdinand Bol teruggevonden in Portugees kasteel – De Volkskrant
Will This Rare Marc Chagall Painting Break a 27-Year-Old Auction Record? – Artnet
“Electronic passport” for artworks wins Investors Allstars award – The Art Newspaper
Christie’s to auction long-lost painting by Mannerist artist Spranger – The Art Newspaper
Artists turn to vellum to beat the forgers copying their work – The Times
Experts believe Leonardo da Vinci drew ‘Nude Mona Lisa’ – The Telegraph
The Surprising Truth About Fake Art and How to Avoid Being Scammed – Town & Country
Rubens’ Duke of Buckingham ‘found’ after 400 years – BBC
It Might Have Been a Masterpiece, but Now It’s a Cautionary Tale – The New York Times
NBI: Nine face possible charges in major art forgery case – YLE Uutiset
Rediscovered Mexican Old Master picture gets fresh look for Met show – The Art Newspaper
Getty Museum to Exhibit Rare Michelangelo Drawing – FineBooks & Collections
The Art of Bitcoin Adoption – Crypto insider
Ann Freedman, former Knoedler director, settles final lawsuit – The Art Newspaper
Een echte Mondriaan – of toch niet? – NRC
Forgery: Bona fide or bogus? – Financial times
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam leende vervalste Mondriaan – NRC
Q & A with Philip Mould – Antiques and the Arts
A Green Light for Art Criminals? – The New York Times
Lost for 136 years: ‘fake’ Tom Roberts painting bought for £7,500 could sell for $1m – The Guardian
Fake Pollocks sold by mad collector circulating the art market – Boodle Hatfield
The Vatican Discovers New Paintings by Raphael Hidden in Plain Sight—Right on Its Walls – Artnet
A Controversial Restoration That Wipes Away the Past – The New York Times
Vietnamese Art Has Never Been More Popular. But the Market Is Full of Fakes – The New York Times
Cracked it! Getty exhibition unlocks the material secrets of Concrete art – The Art Newspaper
Fake Jackson Pollock Paintings – Oh No Here We Go Again – Artlyst
Not a Pretty Picture: Modigliani Exhibit Closes Amid Claims of Forgeries – Livescience
The real-life scandal and shame behind Mona Lisa’s smile – New York Post
Man who made £30,000 faking Norman Cornish artwork told to repay £1 – The Guardian
Bizarre Pollock forgery scam targets unwary collectors in the US – The Art Newspaper
X-Ray Reveals Long-Lost Impressionist Composition Buried Beneath Another Painting – Artnet
One of Knoedler’s Rothkos Is Heading to a Museum—for a Forgery Exhibition – Artnet
Did Vermeer Trace His Golden Age Masterpieces? An Artist Puts the Theory to the Test – Artnet
Stolen de Kooning Resurfaces More Than 30 Years Later – The New York Times
Five of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers to be reunited on Facebook – The Art Newspaper
With ‘Open Access,’ the Met Museum’s Digital Operation Has a Bona Fide Hit on its Hands – Artnet
Artlogic announces formal expansion in the US – The Art Newspaper
Blockchain and Art: A Match Made in Heaven? – The Market Mogul
Alice Cooper’s ‘forgotten’ Warhol found after four decades in storage – CNN
21 Works by Modigliani Exhibited in Genoa Suspected of Being Fakes – Artviatic
Genoa closes art exhibition after paintings ‘turn out to be fakes – The Telegraph
How Art and Law Can Work Together Beyond the Marketplace – Hyperallergic
Nanne Dekking named chair of The European Fine Art Foundation – The Art Newspaper
One of South Korea’s Most Famous Paintings, but by Whom? – Korea Exposé
A Staggering 96% of the Artifacts in San Francisco’s Mexican Museum May Be Fake – Artnet
Lawsuit Reveals Gauguin Painting Was Not World’s Most Expensive – The New York Times
Musei Vaticani, scoperti due Raffaello – Ansa
Raphael paintings discovered during restoration of Vatican hall – Algoa FM
X-Ray Reveals Long-Lost Impressionist Composition Buried Beneath Another Painting – Artnet
Passports for Paintings: New Site Maps Artwork Origin Stories – Artnet
Mistress proved right in war of words over Jackson Pollock’s last painting – The Telegraph
David Bowie’s Tintoretto altarpiece to return to Venice for 2019 Biennale – The Art Newspaper
Three men charged with selling fake Damien Hirst prints online for $400,000 – The Art Newspaper
Will the real Modigliani please stand up? – The Art Newspaper
New acquisition celebrated with guest speaker from the Musée d’Orsay, Paris – Cambridge Network
Antarctic explorer’s 118-year-old painting discovered among penguin poo – The Guardian
A Renaissance masterpiece is unveiled, but its mystery remains unsolved – The Art Newspaper
Blockchain To Change World of Fine Arts As We Know It – The Coin Telegraph
30,000 Getty Museum Images Published Online as IIIF – The Iris
I wasn’t cock-a-hoop that I’d fooled the experts’: Britain’s master forger tells all – The Guardian
Stedelijk Museum vindt tekening van Malevich – NRC
The Phoenix and the Pelican: two portraits of Elizabeth I, c.1575 – National Portrait Gallery
Dutch museum’s entire Mondrian collection gets a health check – The Art Newspaper
Counterfeit T’ang Haywen works proliferate on the market (English edition) – Le Journal des Arts
Counterfeit T’ang Haywen works proliferate on the market (French edition) – Le Journal des Arts
Tuscan archives yield up secrets of Leonardo’s mystery mother – The Guardian
Art community remains divided over Caravaggio painting found in French attic – Malay Mail
True or ‘Valse’? Eccentric art museum features genuine fakes – The Boston Globe
Naming names: on the Le Nain mystery at Louvre-Lens – The Art Newspaper
Felipe II ofreciendo al cielo al infante don Fernando – Museo Nacional Del Prado
The great beauty of chemistry – Chemistryworld
X-Ray Reveals Long-Lost Impressionist Composition Buried Beneath Another Painting – Artnet
The great artists’ estates race – The Art Newspaper
Anish Kapoor flaunts use of “world’s pinkest pink” despite personal ban from its creator – Dezeen
Is this painting to be sold in Madrid really a work by Velázquez? – The Art Newspaper
FBI Warns There Could Be ‘Hundreds More’ Fake Postwar Paintings by Forgery Mastermind – Artnet
Lawsuit against art historian over fake Rothko settled out of court – The Art Newspaper
New paintings to be revealed in Jasper Johns’s Royal Academy retrospective – The Art Newspaper
The man who wrote art history – The Art Newspaper
Michelangelo-designed frame reimagined by National Gallery – The Art Newspaper
Why everyone’s talking about forensics in the art market
Lawsuits, forgeries and family feuds: The afterlives of famous artists – CNN
Hogarth’s paintings fail to go the whole hog – Apollo Magazine
The art world must do more to support experts – Apollo Magazine
Priceless Van Goghs or just plain art? Works sent to museum for authentication – Artdaily
Mystery Man – University of Virginia
A Forgotten Gustave Courbet Painting Discovered in French Museum – Artnet
Op Tefaf merken ze een strengere keuring – NRC
Schilderij voor Tefaf-beurs mag geen Saenredam heten, maar Poelenburch – De Volkskrant
De dubbele petten op Tefaf – NRC
Vier Tefaf-handelaren in opspraak door vervalsingen – NRC
Four Tefaf art dealers in disrepute due to potential forgeries – NRC
‘Dit zet iedereen in de kunstwereld op scherp’ – NRC
Mijn 17de-eeuwse stilleven niet echt? Huh?! Is dit Bananasplit? – NRC
Vervalsers zijn niet slimmer geworden’ – NRC
Hoe het kan dat zoveel nepkunst voor echt doorgaat – NRC
Kunstbeurs Tefaf stelt disclaimer op over echtheid kunst – NRC
Truth and Lies in Fakes and Forgeries Congress Program – Universita Di Bologna
Sotheby’s catalogue mistakenly includes work forged by Wolfgang Beltracchi – The Art Newspaper
Plaintiff argues against Gascards’ motion to dismiss art forgery case – Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
The painter by himself; a late self-portrait by Michael Dahl (1659 – 1743) – James Mulraine
Art Authentication by the Crowd – Universiteit Leiden
Art Dealer Eric Spoutz Sentenced to Over Three Years in Prison for Selling Forgeries – Artnet
Michigan art dealer sentenced to 41 months for running Modern art forgery scheme – The Art Newspaper
Truth and Lies in Fakes and Forgeries 16-17 March 2017 – Universita di Bologna
Auctioneers buy into forensics to expose the fakes and frauds – The Art Newspaper
Brueghel discovered in Bath museum’s storeroom – The Art Newspaper
Sotheby’s Files Second Lawsuit Over Works It Calls Fake – The New York Times
Faker of Norman Cornish pictures sent to prison – The Antique Trade Gazette
It’s time the art market got tough on fakes – The Art Newspaper
Newly Discovered Rubens Painting Sells for $5.1 Million During Sotheby’s Masters Week – Artnet
Old Masters collectors chase new discoveries at New York sales – The Art Newspaper
MFA Boston to bring experts together with $24m overhaul of conservation centre – The Art Newspaper
A Master Work, the Ghent Altarpiece, Reawakens Stroke by Stroke – The New York Times
Schilderijen beschadigd door kou: Italiaanse museumdirecteur op matje -De Volkskrant
Second Old Master Painting a Fake, Sotheby’s Says in Lawsuit – The New York Times
Sotheby’s verkoopt een Rubens, maar is het ook echt een Rubens? – De Morgen
Sotheby’s declares ‘Parmigianino’ a forgery – The Art Newspaper
Deal or no deal? Time to get tough on fakes – The Art Newspaper
The Evidence against Manet painting the Courtauld’s Déjeuner – The Art Newspaper
