□ Sunday, 14 Mar 2010

Blog follows restoration of Van Gogh artwork
A new blog will allow art lovers to follow the restoration, step by step, of Dutch post impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh's famous "The Bedroom", the Van Gogh Museum said Thursday. More...

$2.7 Billion Dutch Fair Lures Collectors as Confidence Rises
A record 263 dealers will offer paintings and other works worth $2.7 billion at the world’s largest art and antiques fair, anticipating the return of the billionaire big-spenders. More...

$150M Brody Collection Up For Auction
One of the most vaunted private art collections in Los Angeles, highlighted by a prized Picasso nude and including works by Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, Henry Moore, Georges Braque, Edgar Degas and Edouard Vuillard, is expected to fetch... More...

□ Wednesday, 10 Mar 2010

Has Caravaggio Dethroned Michelangelo?
ROME — By at least one amusing new metric, Michelangelo’s unofficial 500-year run at the top of the Italian art charts has ended. Caravaggio, who somehow found time to paint when he wasn’t brawling, scandalizing pooh-bahs, chasing... More...

□ Tuesday, 9 Mar 2010

Sotheby's to Sell Single-Owner Collection of British Watercolours and Drawings
Sotheby's announced that on Wednesday, July 14, 2010, it will present for sale, in its New Bond Street galleries in London, An Exceptional Eye: A Private British Collection. More...

Christie's to Sell the Collection of Mrs. Sidney F. Brody
Christie's announced the sale of one of the greatest private American collections of Modern Art to come to auction: The Collection of Mrs. Sidney F. Brody. More...

□ Monday, 8 Mar 2010

Michelangelo letters up for grabs as Renaissance archive goes up for sale
Government in Rome fights to keep Giorgio Vasari archive leaving Tuscany after purchase by mystery Russian More...

□ Sunday, 7 Mar 2010

Christie's to Offer 500 Years of Printmaking this March
This March Christie’s presents the first of its bi-annual auctions of Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints. More...

□ Friday, 5 Mar 2010

Christie's to Offer Monumental Masterpiece by Yves Klein in New York in May
Christie’s will offer a large-scale masterpiece by Yves Klein at the auction of Post-War and Contemporary Art in New York on the evening of 11 May 2010. ANT 93, Le Buffle (“The Buffalo”), 1960-61, is a monumental work from the artist’s celebrated Anthropométrie series that stands over 9 feet wide... More...

□ Thursday, 4 Mar 2010

Sotheby's will Exhibit Highlights from Forthcoming Sales of Russian Art in Paris
To coincide with the 2010 ‘L’année de la Russie en France’, Sotheby’s announced that it will exhibit important works from its forthcoming sales of Russian Art in New York (April 2010) and London (June 2010) at its Paris Saleroom from March 4th to March 9th, 2010. More...

□ Wednesday, 3 Mar 2010

Tour guide tells of terrifying moment man with axe stole Leonardo painting
Two men posing as tourists threatened to kill a castle tour guide before grabbing a painting by Leonardo da Vinci and escaping through a window, a court was told yesterday. More...

Britain's art of losing treasures
A lack of funding – thanks to £100m being spent on 'saving' two Titians – is going to deprive the British public of several more outstanding works More...

□ Monday, 1 Mar 2010

Artist Community Makes Bid to Save the Earth at Christie's
Art and nature are unique in their power to elevate the human spirit. It should be no surprise that many of the world’s leading artists are making ‘A Bid to Save the Earth,’ by contributing works to the Green Auction, which will be held at Christie’s New York on April 22nd, 2010. More...

□ Saturday, 20 Feb 2010

Fine American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture at Christie's New York in March
On March 4, Christie’s will offer its mid-season sale of Fine American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, featuring an excellent selection of 19th and 20th century works at prices ranging from $2,000 to $60,000. More...

□ Friday, 19 Feb 2010

The Power of Art
As it turns out, the very rich did feel the pain of the global financial crisis — just not for long. More...