The European Commission Plans a Huge Arts Funding Project

The debate over the whether government or the private sector is better suited to manage some problems certainly includes art funding. Tradit...

Sothebys Paris African and Oceanic Art - Insanity Reigns

ARTS D'AFRIQUE ET D'OCÉANIE December 14, 2011 Sale Number PF1117 Sale Total (Including Buyers Premium) 9,306,200 EUR With a total of...

Kim Kolker - Art Exhibition

DALLAS TEXAS: December 2011 - Shango Galleries is proud to announce that  our Gallery Director and fine art appraiser Kim Kolker is exhibiti...

Is Buying at Auction Always a Good Deal?

While private dealers have not had much to celebrate the past several years, the inching up of buyers' premiums and all the auction hous...

Victoria Reed, the MFA’s Curator of Provenance - Great Idea

When one hears of an idea like this latest curatorial appointment by  BMFA, you wonder why it didn't happen sooner. We will follow this ...

Twa headrest, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Twa, Democratic Republic of the Congo Width - 8 7/8" c. Early 20th century Maurer/Margolis Headrest Collection  "The Brill neckre...

Feedback on the Blog and Newsletter

We have had a number of questions asking why we have a blog and a newsletter. The answer is simply that one complements the other. All artic...

Some Thoughts December 2011

During some of my recent readings which run the gamut from politics to assassins, I recently came across a quote that was both simple and po...

Some Humor - Dumb Art Thieves

Dumb Madrid Art Thieves Tried to Sell Multimillion-Dollar Stolen Sculpture for Scrap   by ARTINFO Published: December 21, 2010 Conside...

What's Happening in the Middle East

In the coming months we will focus on the private and public art markets and institutions in the Middle East. Having lived there for almost ...

Bill Siegmann Memorial Services Set

This is reprnted from an email we received from Kevin Dumouchelle.  Dear Friends, A memorial service for Bill Siegmann has been scheduled i...

Happy Holidays 2011

Crosscurrents - Art of the Southeastern Congo

September 30, 2011–January 8, 2012 Inspired by the Museum’s three finest works of African sculpture, Crosscurrent s explores the art of thre...

Pre-Columbian Art - November 2011

Remojadas Figure Veracruz, East Mexico c. AD 500 - 1000

Faces

Pokot Girl Kenya East Africa 

American Indian Art

Sioux Acquired August 29, 1890 Sarah Hatch Webster Pineridge Reservation Complete Documentation Available

JB - My Word November 2011

For many appraisers November is an insane time when you almost dread the ringing of the phone knowing that more work is on the way. Clients ...

Christmas Issue of the Newsletter

This next issue which will be out by mid December will not contain anything negative. If we need to report something it can wait until Janua...

Auction Sales Still Strong for High End

1. Bonhams achieves new auction highs for Chinese art sales in Hong Kong HONG KONG.- At a time of serious economic instability around the wo...

1000 Year Old Asian artifacts in Alaska?

ANCHORAGE (AP).- A research team is attempting to discover the origin of a cast bronze artifact excavated from an Inupiat Eskimo home site b...

William Siegmann, Curator Emeritus, Brooklyn Museum

It is with deep sadness that I write to inform you that William Siegmann, Curator Emeritus of the Arts of Africa and the Pacific Islands at ...

Can a Headrest Identify Your Sleeping Partner?

The Maurer headrest collection which the gallery is now offering was assembled by Evan Maurer with great care over almost four decades. Evan...

Common Sense in Your Art World

Associating common sense with the passionate pursuit of art may seem to many to be an oxymoron that can never be rationalized. The results o...

Ray Wielgus , His Guns, and Some Thoughts About Last Wishes

This month I was invited to speak at the Phoenix Museum of Art in celebration of the exhibition of the embellished gun collection of Ray Wie...