□ Friday, 30 Nov 2007

The Rothschild Fabergé Egg Sells for $18.5M
The Rothschild Fabergé Egg sold at Christie’s for Ј8,980,500 / $18,499,830 / Ђ12,509,837, a world record price for a Russian object (not including paintings) at auction, for a work of art by Fabergé More...

More than just a pop sensation
SOME time after the death of pop artist Andy Warhol, undoubtedly the most important and influential artist of his generation, a fact emerged with the force of revelation: throughout his life he had been religious... More...

Christie's Auction of Sporting and Wildlife Art
Christie’s auction of Sporting and Wildlife Art realized $6,254,963/Ј3,036,390/€4,255,077. The top lot was Fire Storm by Bob Kuhn from the Doug and Ellen Miller Collection which sold for 657,000/Ј318,932/€446,939 setting a world auction record for the artist. More...

Sotheby's Sale of American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture Achieves a Total of $65,198,200
Sotheby’s sale of American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture achieved a total of $65,198,200 (est. $44,990,000/67,820,000). More...

□ Thursday, 29 Nov 2007

Scientist Presents Case Against Possible Pollocks
A forensic scientist said yesterday that a large group of paintings discovered several years ago and thought by some to be by Jackson Pollock included many containing paints and materials that were not available until after the artist’s death in 1956. More...

□ Sunday, 25 Nov 2007

Coronation chair and medieval panels damaged by heating in Westminster Abbey
Environmental conditions inside Westminster Abbey are now causing “serious concern”, according to one of its own conservators, Marie Louise Sauerberg. More...

Christie's $108.3 Million Hong Kong Sale Quadruples Estimate
Christie's International quadrupled its top sale target at a Hong Kong auction today and set a record for Chinese contemporary art. More...

□ Saturday, 24 Nov 2007

Researchers find art gems in British collections
An unknown and much abused 17th-century painting that shows the earliest known view of the front of the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens's house in Antwerp is just one of the art gems discovered in new research unveiled on Wednesday. More...

□ Wednesday, 21 Nov 2007

Painting goes from trash to $1 million treasure
An oil painting by Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo that was plucked from a sidewalk trash heap several years ago sold for more than $1 million on Tuesday at Sotheby's auction of Latin American art. More...

Sotheby's To Hold Inaugural Evening Sale of Russian Art
2007 has been an exceptional and landmark year in Sotheby’s history both for its Russian department and its Russian business. More...

□ Tuesday, 20 Nov 2007

Sotheby's Sporting Sale: Equestrian, Wildlife, and Maritime Art
On November 29, 2007 Sotheby’s New York will offer for sale important paintings and sculpture of equestrian, wildlife, prize livestock, hunting, racing and maritime subjects. Several great works by Sir Alfred J... More...

Swedish museum says its Andy Warhol Brillo boxes are fakes
Six Brillo boxes in the Andy Warhol collection at a Swedish museum are fakes made in 1990, three years after the famed pop artist died, the museum said Friday. More...

□ Monday, 19 Nov 2007

Coin Collectors Sue State Department Over Import Rules
Three organizations representing coin collectors and dealers have filed a lawsuit against the State Department demanding greater disclosure of how the government makes decisions on the import of ancient artifacts from abroad. More...

Can Museums Be Corrupted By Commecial Galleries?
TAKASHI MURAKAMI’S “Oval Buddha,” a shiny new 19-foot-tall platinum and aluminum sculpture that looms large over his current retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art here, was originally supposed to be sent from Japan by boat. More...

19th Century European Paintings at Sotheby's London
The morning’s Greek Sale achieved an outstanding total of Ј8,163,725/Ђ11,584,360 (pre-sale estimate was Ј4,135,000-6,078,000) which represents the highest total ever achieved at any auction house for a sale in this category. More...