DETROIT (AP).- When a painting attributed to Vincent Van Gogh was bequeathed to the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1990, it was met with immediate suspicion from scholars and art experts. “Still life with Carnations,” an unsigned painting of flowers, was…
Kunsthalle in Dresden Opens Exhibition of Works by German Artist Eberhard Havekost
DRESDEN.- Central to Eberhard Haverkost’s artistic realization is the critical reflection on the present, being saturated with pictures. He deals with the optical perception of the realistic world and its pictorial abstraction. Purposefully, he ex…
Expert Handwriting Analysis Concludes "Secret Mark" Not a Forgery
NEW YORK, NY.- Expert handwriting analysis has concluded that Morton Smith did not forge the document known as “Secret Mark.” More than fifty years ago in a Judean desert monastery, Columbia University professor Morton Smith discovered a prev…
Colorado Goodwill Auctions Purported Dali Print
GRAND JUNCTION (AP).- A Colorado Goodwill store is auctioning off a purported lithograph of a Salvador Dali work that it received from a mystery donor. But the Grand Junction shop says it doesn’t plan to verify the work’s authenticity. A customer at …
Vatican Reverses Itself, "The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence" Not a Caravaggio
VATICAN CITY (AP).- The Vatican’s top art historian on Monday shot down a report in its own newspaper that suggested a recently discovered painting was a Caravaggio. The head of the Vatican Museums, Antonio Paolucci, wrote in the Vatican newspaper L’Os…
Three-Person Exhibition Opens at Thierry Goldberg Projects
NEW YORK, NY.- Thierry Goldberg Projects presents Here We Aren’t So Quickly, a three-person exhibition with paintings by Guy Ben-Ari, Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline, and Hiroyuki Nakamura. The title of the show, taken from a Jonathan Safran Foer story…
CAC Málaga Looks at Issues of Authorship, Authenticity and Identity
MALAGA.- En Face, presented by the Contemporary Art Center of Málaga, is the first individual exhibition of the work of Gavin Turk to be held in Spain. The exhibition consists of a group of 72 clay busts resulting from an interactive performance in wh…
Art Antiques London ~ Fair for Collectors & Connoisseurs at Royal Albert Hall
LONDON.- This June, Kensington Gardens will
provide the stunning backdrop to Art Antiques London, which runs from 9
through16 June 2010, a new art and antiques fair aimed at both the seasoned
connoisseur and those who admire and value beauty…