□ Tuesday, 27 Jan 2009

Sotheby's Americana Week 2009 Totals $7,717,892
Sotheby’s series of Americana Week sales brought a combined total of $7,717,892; Important Americana achieved $6,183,505 and the single-owner sale of Property of Dr. and Mrs. Henry C. Landon III totaled $1,534,387. More...

Prado Museum Determines that Colossus is not an Original Goya
Last summer, curators of the Prado Museum briefed the media on new discoveries relating to The Colossus, a painting traditionally attributed to Goya. More...

□ Monday, 26 Jan 2009

Brandeis to sell school's art collection
Rocked by a budget crisis, Brandeis University will close its Rose Art Museum and sell off a 6,000-object collection that includes work by such contemporary masters as Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and Nam June Paik. More...

□ Wednesday, 21 Jan 2009

Bert Geer Phillips Taos School Painting Expected to Make $300K-$400K in Feb. 7 Auction at Quinn's Auction Galleries
On Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009, Quinn’s Auction Galleries in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Falls Church, Va., will offer an outstanding Taos school artwork that originally belonged to a distinguished early 20th-century Iowa senator. More...

□ Tuesday, 20 Jan 2009

The Vincent Ferguson Collection of Irish Art at Christie's South Kensington in May 2009
Christie's announced the sale of The Vincent Ferguson Collection on Friday 8th May 2009. More...

Putin’s First Painting Raises 37 Million Rubles for Charity
The Russian prime minister’s picture of a frosty window made the highest price of 30 works on offer. More...

□ Friday, 16 Jan 2009

Carter Center Auction: Rare Opportunity to Purchase Original Painting and Prints
A public auction held on Feb. 7, 2009 to support the work of the not-for-profit Carter Center will allow the highest bidder to select one of six choices of original paintings by President Carter. More...

□ Thursday, 15 Jan 2009

Vladimir Putin's painting: an expert view
Is there no end to Vladimir Putin's talents? More...

Antiquities dealer arrested over Egypt thefts
A wanted Lebanese antiquities dealer has been arrested in Bulgaria over accusations he stole ancient Egyptian artefacts and slipped them out of the country in recent years, Egypt's Culture Ministry said on Thursday. More...

Over Spilt Milk: The Fight for Fair Price & Fair Profit in Depression Era New York
The history of the Consumer-Farmer Milk Cooperative officially started on a damp November Sunday in Foley Square, Manhattan with a Holstein cow, a farmer, and 150 resolute women. More...

Sotheby's To Sell Rediscovered Masterwork By Lucio Fontana - Concetto spaziale, 1961
Sotheby’s announced that it will offer for sale the recently rediscovered, museum-quality painting Concetto spaziale of 1961, by Italy’s foremost Contemporary artist Lucio Fontana** (1899-1968). More...

Christie’s Cuts Costs as Art Market Slows
When works by the British artist Damien Hirst sold for a record $127 million on the same day in September that Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection, it seemed the art market might escape the economic crisis. More...

Prado Paintings In Stunning Close-Up On Google Earth
Globe-trotting technology allows works of Goya, Velázquez and Bosch to be seen in finest detail... More...

Francis Bacon's "Man in Blue VI" Leads Christie's Auction of Post-War and Contemporary Art
Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale will take place on 11 February 2009 and will offer a comprehensive selection of 31 works of art representing the last 60 years. More...

□ Sunday, 11 Jan 2009

Silver by Tiffany & Co. and Paul Revere Highlight Christie's American Silver Sale
Christie’s Important American Silver sale on January 23 is led by a group of exemplary Tiffany & Co. silver, from the classical revival styles of the 1860s to the Art Deco designs of the 1930s. More...