Four years late and some £53million over budget, the V&A Museum of Design nonetheless opened to great fanfare and protest in Dundee on Saturday 15 September. Continue reading
Category: Art News
Experts uncover twist in the tale of ‘Salvator Mundi’
It was the most expensive painting ever sold at auction for an eye-watering £335 million in 2017. Now new evidence has surfaced, which supports an alternative back story to the much contested ‘Salvator Mundi’, said to be the last work by Leonardo da Vinci. Continue reading
Calling all art lawyers
Are you a lawyer, judge or law professor with art law experience? If so, the newly created Court of Arbitration for Art (CAfA) wants to hear from you. Continue reading
Stolen Buddha statue returns to India on Independence Day
Missing for nearly 60 years, a 12th-century statue of Buddha was returned to India by the UK government in a ceremony on Wednesday (15 August 2018). Continue reading
£165,000 Nicholson painting rendered worthless
Art experts were bamboozled by a £165,000 painting by British artist, Sir William Nicholson, which was rejected by a leading connoisseur. According to Philip Mould, an international dealer, it is now worth “only a few hundred pounds” without the attribution. Continue reading
HS2 railway art plan stops MPs in their tracks
HS2 Ltd is “in cloud cuckoo land” says one MP in response to plans to recruit a curator to place public art along the route of the new railway. Continue reading
Salvator Mundi – Is it or isn’t it a Da Vinci masterpiece?
Salvator Mundi – a painting hailed as a masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci and sold at Christie’s for a record-breaking £335 million in November 2017 – is actually the work of a studio assistant, according to an Oxford University scholar. Continue reading
New Zealand government bans English expat from tinkling the ivories
A British university professor who relocated to New Zealand was horrified to discover the ivory keys on his antique piano will be buried by the country’s Department of Conservation (DoC). Continue reading
Artists up in arms over Design Museum private event
Artists whose work is currently on display at London’s Design Museum have called for it to be removed after they discovered the Museum hosted a private event linked to the arms industry. Continue reading
Jarring claims: Jeddi v Sotheby’s and others
The judgment in Jeddi v Sotheby’s and others handed down in June, determined competing claims to ownership of a £12 million early Islamic rock crystal jar, and provides guidance on agency, bailment and the immediate right to possession. Continue reading
