25 February 2008 | Crime, Modern
From The Art Newspaper: Art historian and Modigliani specialist Christian Parisot is facing trial in Paris, accused of faking 77 drawings by Jeanne Hébuterne, the artist’s mistress and mother of his daughter, also called Jeanne … Mr Parisot told The Art Newspaper that … they are genuine and that they came from a clear-out of [...]
18 February 2008 | Crime, Museums
From the Boston Globe: … as one museum after another negotiates deals [to repatriate art], and prosecutors all over the world target the commercial trade in ancient objects, some prominent scholars are drawing a line in the sand, saying that objects belong where they are – that the movement is based on a false reading [...]
19 April 2007 | Crime
In an editorial in the latest Revue de l’art (n. 155), the editors write that “The recent indictment of Henry-Claude Cousseau, currently director of the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-arts, for an exhibition that he organized in 2000, as director of the CAPC-Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, again raises the question of censorship in art. [...]
19 February 2007 | Conferences, Crime
For more on the appropriation & the law panel, see Roberta Fallon’s post to artblog.
10 August 2006 | Crime, Modern
From The Age (Australia): “The National Gallery of Victoria has rejected claims that a $25 million Vincent Van Gogh painting it has lent to an exhibition in Scotland is a fake. Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper quoted a number of experts who doubt the authenticity of the painting, known as either Portrait of a Man or [...]
From the L.A. Times: “In a surprise search Wednesday, Greek authorities seized 17 unregistered artifacts and a Byzantine icon from the vacation house of Marion True, the former J. Paul Getty Museum antiquities curator on trial in Rome on charges she trafficked in looted art.” From the N.Y. Times: “one of the largest donations New [...]
Thomas Hoving, who was director of the Met when it purchased the Euphronios Krater, talks to Time Out: “the Getty Museum in Los Angeles has 40,000 antiquities. Of that, I’d say 35,000 are suspect [provenance-wise] … Museums have too much shit anyway! All these pompous museum directors say, ‘We’re the showplace for civilization.’ Bullshit! They [...]
4 March 2006 | Crime
Does successful art forgery show up art history’s connoisseurship as arbitrary? “Never was there such a load of rubbish talked about anything as has been, and will be, talked about art … that a Van Gogh can go for, what is it, $75 million? That’s disgusting,” says former art forger John Myatt in today’s New [...]
