□ Saturday, 3 Mar 2007

Free Arts NYC 8TH Annual Art + Photography Auction
NEW YORK, NY - Free Arts NYC is pleased to announce its 8th Annual Art Auction Benefit, Portraits & Polaroids, which will take place on Monday, April 23rd in at Milk Gallery, located at 450 West 15th Street in New York. More...

□ Thursday, 1 Mar 2007

Defacer With Mystery Agenda Is Attacking Street Art
Someone out there has a problem with art. Or at least a certain kind of art and artist. More...

Picasso paintings stolen in Paris
At least two Picasso paintings with a combined value of 50m euros (£33.7m) have been stolen from his granddaughter's home in Paris. More...

Selections From Pierre Huber Collection Totals $16.8M
NEW YORK - The sale of the selections of the single owner collection of contemporary art brought together by Swiss collector and dealer Pierre Huber totaled $16,786,400, exceeding the pre-sale estimate of $11 – 15 million. More...

Portland Art Museum Purchases Rauschenberg
PORTLAND.- The Portland Art Museum announced the purchase of a major assemblage sculpture by the renowned American artist Robert Rauschenberg. More...

Court returns stolen art to owner
A US art collector who had paintings valued at £20m stolen from his home in Massachusetts has won a legal battle in London to have them returned to him. More...

□ Tuesday, 27 Feb 2007

Sotheby's To Launch mySothebys
LONDON, ENGLAND - This spring, Sotheby’s will launch mySothebys, a powerful new Web experience on sothebys.com delivering dramatically enhanced online services to Sotheby’s clients. More...

5000 Years of Chinese Art and Culture
SANTA ANA, CA.- Bowers Museum of Orange County, celebrated for bringing the world’s spectacular collections to Southern California, presents “Treasures from Shanghai: 5000 Years of Chinese Art and Culture,” featuring 77 sets of objects from the Neolithic period (circa 3000 B.C.) to the Qing dynasty (1644-1911 A.D.). More...

Western Collectors Swarm Chines Art
Recently I received an e-mail message from a curator friend inquiring about a painter and sculptor named Liu Wei. I had included his work in a show I organized in Turin called “AllLookSame?” that featured pieces by young Korean, Chinese and Japanese artists... More...

□ Monday, 26 Feb 2007

Christie's buys an art gallery
LONDON - Christie's auction house said yesterday it had bought a London contemporary art gallery, moving the world's largest auctioneer onto terrain usually occupied by art dealers. More...

□ Saturday, 24 Feb 2007

Sculpture couldn't ride out the storms
Red Sea Road, which used to adorn Miami Beach City Hall, appears to have been junked. More...

Detroit museum nearly renovated
DETROIT - The Detroit Institute of Arts is entering the final phase of its six-year, $158 million renovation and expansion that is increasing its gallery space by about 30 percent. More...

Views of Russia’s crumbling modernist heritage
A show at the Museum of Modern Art will chart the vanishing architectural ­heritage of the former Soviet Union More...

Christie's To Offer Goudstikker Old Master Paintings
NEW YORK/ LONDON / AMSTERDAM - Christie’s International today announced it has been selected to assist the heirs of Jacques Goudstikker with the sale of over 100 of the 200 Old Master pictures restituted to the family in February 2006. More...

□ Friday, 23 Feb 2007

Berlin Museums Chief Attacks Louvre for Abu Dhabi Venture
France's decision to lend both the Louvre's name and its art to a planned museum in Abu Dhabi will lead to a "commercialization'' of national treasures, Berlin museums chief Klaus-Dieter Lehmann said. More...