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Art Market Spring/Summer 2016
1. NEW YORK If you were paying attention to the London auctions last week, you noticed that there was still significant bidding from telephone representatives who handle Mainland China clients. The...
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Archaeology Spring/Summer 2016
1. MIAMI (FLA).- A second look at a tusk and tools unearthed from an underwater archaeological site in Florida has revealed that people migrated to the Americas almost 1,500 years earlier than...
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Book Review Spring/Summer 2016
1. NEW YORK Will It Always Be Just Sotheby’s & Christie’s?May 3, 2016 by Marion Manekerde Pury, The AuctioneerNPR has a brief story on Simon de Pury’s new memoir, The Auctioneer. In the story,...
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Art Foreferies and Theft Spring/Summer 2016
1. Art forger goes straight selling £5,000 fakesMay 8, 2016 – 06:45telegraph.co.ukhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/07/art-forger-goes-straight-selling-5000-fakes/Art forger goes straight selling...
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Starnge Happenings Spring/Summer 2016
1. NEW YORK - Christie’s kicked off the spring auction season in New York last evening (8 May) with Bound to Fail, a curated sale that set seven new artist records, including a new high for Maurizio...
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Art Economy Spring/Summer 2016
ART ECONOMY1. NEW YORK - Gigaweek Closes As Christie’s Imp-Mod Is Managed to a Soft LandingMay 13, 2016 by Marion ManekerRumbler in the BoxEven in its reduced state, the current week of auctions in New...
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Auction Houses 2016
1. LONDON - The folks at Paddle 8 and Auctionata are very excited to announce that the two platforms—one with strength in Europe and the other with a base in the UK and US—are merging. The announcement...
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Indiana University Museum Fails Again Spring/Summer 2016
Editor's Note: Noted collector, scholar, and artist Ray Wielgus passed away in 2010 leaving his world class ethnographic collection and a large cash bequest to the Indiana University Museum at...
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If You Thought NAGPRA was Bad - Read This Spring/Summer 2016
Kate Fitz Gibbon and The Committee for Cultural Policy (https://committeeforculturalpolicy.org/) will soon publish a statement on HR1327 sponsored by Flake, McCain, and Udall. From everything we can...
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Art Market Fall 2016
1. NEW YORK Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal ran a story suggesting that auction houses would be offering generous incentives to consignors because of fears of a weak auction market.The meat...
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Auctions Fall 2016
1. LOS ANGELES LOS ANGELES, CA.- On Saturday, May 19, 1962, at a Democratic fundraiserand early 45th birthday celebration, President John F. Kennedy took his seat in Madison Square Garden anticipating...
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Tribal Art Auctions and Exhibitions Fall 2016
1. FALLS CHURCH FALLS CHURCH, VA.- Quinn’s Auction Galleries has been chosen to auction the highly important African tribal art collection of renowned dealer, artist and collector Merton D. Simpson...
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Archaeology Fall 2016
1. SYDNEY SYDNEY (AFP).- Circular stone foundations discovered on an island in Western Australia suggest that Aborigines were building "houses" up to 9,000 years ago, a researcher said University of...
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Museums Fall 2016
1. CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.- The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia is pleased to announce the new appointment of Adriana Greci Green, PhD, as Curator of the Indigenous Arts of the...
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NAGPRA - Repatriation - US Government
It is important that any collector of Native American Art read this and the letters that follow. To stay up to date one should also follow the Committee for Cultural Policy newsletter. Jim Owen gave...
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Bits and Pieces Fall 2016
1. WAMENA (AFP).- Cradling the centuries-old remains of his mummified ancestor, tribe leader Eli Mabel lays bare an ancient tradition that has all but vanished among the Dani people in the Papuan...
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Legal 2016
1. CHICAGO While everyone’s talking about the trial in Chicago that has required Peter Doig to justify his own claim that a work of art is not his own, it might be worth looking at this 2009 decision...
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Art Forgery Fall 2016
1. NEW YORK Like method actors and bearded brewmasters, the best art forgers are obsessed with authenticity. But thanks to a handful of new authentication technologies, even history’s most painstaking...
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Internet Art Market Fall 2016
1. NEW YORK - Online Sales Are 3.6% of Sotheby’s Auction Total - Below is a transcript of Tad Smith’s remarks on Online Sales during the Second Quarter Earnings call. As Smith points out, online sales...
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