□ Friday, 30 Oct 2009

Destroying art for art's sake
Many of the art attacks carried out by individuals lurch between lunacy and criminality - the man who attacked Michelangelo's Pieta in the Vatican with a hammer, while shouting "I am Jesus" is seen as a lunatic. More...

ICE Agents Recover Stolen Italian Artifacts Smuggled into the United States
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents seized two stolen Italian artifacts that date back more than 2,000 years. The items were illegally excavated in Italy, smuggled into the United States and offered for sale in New York. More...

□ Thursday, 29 Oct 2009

MoMA owns up to Warhol rejection letter from 1956
Culture Monster has reported on many art museums and we know firsthand just how humorless they can be. (No, we will not name names.) More...

□ Sunday, 25 Oct 2009

Chelmsford Museum Tastes Success at Auction
Chelmsford Museum has succeeded in snaring at auction its first work by locally born painter and Slade professor Frederick Brown (1851 -1941) - after being thwarted in its attempt to acquire a similar painting by the artist that went under the hammer in 2007. More...

□ Saturday, 24 Oct 2009

Return of a Soviet-Era Genre Lost to Perestroika
When Mikhail Gorbachev, the president of the former Soviet Union and Communist Party leader, introduced perestroika in the late 1980s, his policies had a profound affect on almost every aspect of life. More...

□ Monday, 19 Oct 2009

Sotheby's Four-Day Romano Sale Achieves $15,435,780
At the close of Sotheby’s four-day Romano sale series in Florence, featuring over 1,800 lots from the spectacular collection of Salvatore Romano and his son Francesco, the total sum exceeded the pre-sale low estimate... More...

□ Friday, 16 Oct 2009

British Sculptor Involved in Tragic Accident Dies
British police say a sculptor whose inflatable artwork blew away and killed two people in a 2006 accident has died. More...

□ Wednesday, 14 Oct 2009

Chinese art market does soul-searching as prices plummet
The fallow plots of farmland on the edge of the artists' village of Songzhuang are a symbol of Chinese contemporary art's recent boom and bust cycle. More...

Fingerprint points to $19,000 portrait being revalued as £100m work by Leonardo da Vinci
ATG correspondent SIMON HEWITT gains exclusive access to the evidence used to unveil what the world’s leading scholars say is the first major Leonardo Da Vinci find for 100 years. More...

□ Friday, 9 Oct 2009

Sheriff: $80 Million Art 'Theft' Appears To Be A Scam
It was reported as one of the biggest fine art thefts in history - $80 million worth of paintings by Jackson Pollock, Vincent van Gogh and other masters spirited from a seaside home in Pebble Beach by a burglar who left a note demanding a ransom and threatening violence. More...

Aided By Technology, Hunting For A Hidden Leonardo
If you believe, as Maurizio Seracini does, that Leonardo da Vinci’s greatest painting is hidden inside a wall in Florence’s city hall, then there are two essential techniques for finding it. More...

□ Thursday, 8 Oct 2009

Sotheby's to Present for the First Time Arab and Iranian Art in Its Main Contemporary Art Auction
On Friday, October 16, 2009, Sotheby’s London will present, for the first time, a significant section of Arab & Iranian Art in its annual October Contemporary Art Sale to coincide with the Frieze Art Fair. More...

□ Monday, 5 Oct 2009

Sotheby's to Offer Islamic Works of Art in Paris for the First Time
Sotheby’s next Orientalist sale in Paris on October 28 will consist of 205 lots of paintings, sculptures and works of art. It will also include a section dedicated to Islamic Art for the first time, with 120 lots illustrating les arts d’Orient from North Africa to China. More...

Wide Array of Exquisite Works at Sotheby's Sale Next Week in Hong Kong
Sotheby’s Hong Kong will hold its 20th Century Chinese Art Autumn Sale 2009 on 6 October, offering collectors a superb opportunity to acquire rare and premium works by some of the most celebrated and important 20th century Chinese artists. More...

□ Sunday, 4 Oct 2009

Pebble Beach art heist ransom note found
The owners of artwork valued in the multiple millions and stolen from a Pebble Beach home have found a ransom note, the Monterey County Sheriff's Office confirmed. More...