LOS ANGELES (AP).- A Los Angeles gallery is taking head-on the dispute over garage-sale pictures that the owner says are the early work of Ansel Adams. The Duncan Miller Gallery is putting up 20 authentic prints by the renowned nature photographer in a…
New York Man Says He Drunkenly Lost $1.3M Artwork by Corot
NEW YORK (AP).- Call it the lost art of drinking responsibly: A man entrusted with helping to sell a $1.3 million painting said it disappeared while he was in a drunken haze, according to a lawsuit filed by a co-owner of the canvas. James Carl Haggert…
Jackson and Lee, August 1953: Photographs by Tony Vaccaro
EAST HAMPTON, NY.- In August 1953, on assignment for Look magazine, the photographer Tony Vaccaro visited Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner at their home in Springs. He photographed the two artists in the house and the barn studio, where the couple chatt…
Egon Schiele’s Portrait of Wally Now on Display – Only Opportunity to See it in the U.S.
NEW YORK, NY.- After a long awaited settlement regarding the Portrait of Wally, a 1912 oil painting by artist Egon Schiele, the painting will be on view to the public at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust from July …
Jackson and Lee, August 1953: Photographs by Tony Vaccaro
EAST HAMPTON, NY.- In August 1953, on assignment for Look magazine, the photographer Tony Vaccaro visited Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner at their home in Springs. He photographed the two artists in the house and the barn studio, where the couple chatt…
Egon Schiele’s Portrait of Wally Now on Display – Only Opportunity to See it in the U.S.
NEW YORK, NY.- After a long awaited settlement regarding the Portrait of Wally, a 1912 oil painting by artist Egon Schiele, the painting will be on view to the public at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust from July …
Ship Lost for More than 150 Years is Recovered in Canada
TORONTO (AP).- Canadian archeologists have found a ship abandoned more than 150 years ago in the quest for the fabled Northwest Passage and which was lost in the search for the doomed expedition of Sir John Franklin, the head of the team said Wednesday…
Lawyer: Negatives Verified by Team of Experts as Ansel Adams’ Work
BEVERLY HILLS (AP).- A trove of old glass negatives bought at a garage sale for $45 have been authenticated as the lost work of famed nature photographer Ansel Adams and are worth at least $200 million, an attorney for the owner said Tuesday. A team o…
Lost Franz Kafka Writings Resurface, Trapped in Trial
JERUSALEM (AP).- It seems almost Kafkaesque: Ten safety deposit boxes of never-published writings by Franz Kafka, their exact contents unknown, are trapped in courts and bureaucracy, much like one of the nightmarish visions created by the author himsel…
Exhibition on the Reconstruction of Lost Buildings at Pinakothek der Moderne
MUNICH.- For years »reconstruction« has been the subject of a heated debate. However, reconstructions can be found since Antiquity, as throughout history buildings have been destroyed and rebuilt if required, for a variety of reasons and with alterna…