Damien Hirst accused of preventing Phillips sale of his work. [The Telegraph]
Menil Collection will return two 700-year-old frescoes to Cyprus. [WSJ]
Sotheby’s head William Ruprecht sells 8,000 shares of stock. [Art Market Monitor]
Giant head removed, Madison Square Park receives new sculptures. [DNAInfo]
The Met has a new website. [Read More
The National Arts Club sent out a press release today that sought to counter victorious statement made by former president Aldon James, and the document really reveals how contentious things have become in this case. Read More
New details on the American Folk Art Museum’s salvation: the Met will display 15 works from the collection. [Press Release]
Whitney plans Warhol retrospective, Neue plans Lauder retrospective. [Inside Art]
Phillips de Pury plans to sell 4,350-item Swatch watch collection as a single lot in Hong Kong. [Press Release]
Here are few Read More
Despite the massive hype leading up to the event, Ben Stiller and David Zwirner’s Artists For Haiti charity auction at Christie’s this evening exceeded expectations with the 27 works offered selling for a collective $13.7 million, beating an earlier estimate of $10 million. Read More
The American Folk Art Museum will stay at its new home near Lincoln Center, The New York Times reports, after much-needed financial infusions from its trustees and the Ford Foundation.
The museum recently became the focus of public drama surprising for an organization with such a provincial name, Read More
American Folk Art Museum will remain open. [NYT]
Mick Jagger checked out the Bob Dylan show at Gagosian and then bought art books at the Strand. [Page Six]
MoMA unveils details on Cindy Sherman retrospective. [WSJ]
“Christie’s First Open = $9.92m” [Art Market Monitor]
In hard times, the Taubman Museum of Read More
Dealers, lawyers, investors and journalists crowded tables in the lavish 11th floor dining room of the New York Athletic Club this afternoon for the headline event of Marion Maneker’s Artelligence conference — a panel with art world heavyweights Nicholas Acquavella of Acquavella Galleries, Helly Nahmad of the New York’s Helly Nahmad Gallery, Guy Bennett of Read More
“Four Clyfford Still Paintings Could Raise $70 Million at Sotheby’s Auction” [Bloomberg]
Asia Week breakdown: buyers went for low estimate items. [The Art Newspaper]
Here’s the star-studded rundown of Larry Gagosian’s parties last week. [Page Six]
New York State Supreme Court halts National Arts Club’s internal review of Aldon James after its Read More
Lucien Freud’s just-slightly-unfinished final piece Portrait of the Hound will be among 200 works on display at his upcoming show at the London Portrait Gallery this February, The Independent reports.
The final painting depicts “[Freud's] assistant David Dawson and his faithful whippet Eli,” according to the paper. Before his death this past July, Freud Read More
