African Art Photo of the Month

Yoruba, Gelede Society mask, Nigeria, West Africa First half 20th century

Tribal Art Auctions News - December 2010

Sothebys, Paris African and Oceanic Art - Sale PF1028 - 11/30/10 Sale Total: 8,508,625 euros 101 lots of which 76 sold leaving unsold lots a...

A Chirstmas Message - 2010

This has been a very strange year . Whether you are on the left or the right most would agree that these past few months have been  unsettli...

Peter Marzio, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston Dies at 67

HOUSTON (Houston Chronicle Decmber 10, 2010) Museum impresario Peter C. Marzio, who devoted three decades to building the Museum of Fine Art...

Pre-Columbian Picture of the Month December 2010

Maya Ceremonial Cup Representing a Screamning Prisoner Ht. 8 1/2" Mexico/Guatemala AD 250 - 600 Zollman Collection, Peter Wray Collecti...

Picture of the Month December 2010

Silverback Gorilla Having a Peaceful Moment - Africa

What's Happening at the Auctions Around the World

1. NEW YORK (AP).- An 1814 first edition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" has sold for more than half a million dollars at a New York...

Custer's Last Stand - Re-Visited

ALBUQUERQUE — The founding director of the Custer Battlefield Museum in Montana said Monday that his constitutional rights were violated whe...

Leonardo Da Vinci May Have Something More To Say

Fragment of Manuscript by Leonardo da Vinci Unearthed in French Town Library Agnes Marcetteau (L), director of Nantes media library, and Jea...

Steve Martin and An Object of Beauty

Steve Martin at a book signing for An Object of Beauty in New York and, left, the US cover • “I’ve never met anyone who collects cynically” ...

A Roadshow Moment for Bonhams and Christmas for an Owner

Picture Bought for Its Frame in Devon Sells for $78,000 at Bonhams Canadian Art Sale "The picture was brought to us after it was purcha...

The Chinese Are Everywhere - Buying Your Stuff And Their Stuff

1. HONG KONG.- Christie's Hong Kong completed its two sales of Classical and Modern Chinese Paintings on Tuesday, November 30th, 2010, t...

A Forger With No Motive

This article, which is reprinted from the theartnewspaper.com caught my attention because this forger seems to be a bit different than our e...

Priceless by Robert Wittman - A Good Read?

Having met Mr. Wittman in a Philadelphia court room about 8 years ago I really wanted to hate this book and by extension the author. Unfortu...

A Pre-Columbian Treasure?

A small, pre-Columbian figurine that came rolled up in T-shirts in an airline passenger's luggage was returned to Mexico, its country of...