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The Root
April 12, 2018
An inability—or a flat reluctance—to speak to provenance born of plunder is the sort of thing that alienates black people inside and outside of the art world ... She singles out Museum Hue, a collective for people of color in the arts that addresses inequity across the art world and connects people to jobs, andÃâà...
New York Times
April 11, 2018
These patterns reveal the shirt's provenance: It was likely owned by a roving dignitary or courtier of the Sogdian Empire. ... Fancy Frames The design of the two-toned blue rectangular framing the birds is likely to have been strongly influenced by the art of Sasanian Iran (circa A.D. 224 to A.D. 640),Ãâà...
CoinCentral
April 8, 2018
One major area where blockchain could play an important role in the high-end art world is provenance. Provenance refers to the ownership history of a work of art. It's the trail of ownership that leads all the way back to the artist who originally created the piece. Currently, provenance is mostly managed byÃâà...
CryptoNewsReview
April 6, 2018
Verisart will use Bitcoin's blockchain technology protect artist's work, and reassure buyers. As works of art becoming increasingly used as financial investments, rather than just things to be enjoyed, the massive industry that surrounds it has increasingly found itself concerned with proving the provenance ofÃâà...
New York Times
April 6, 2018
But the market for Russian avant-garde art began to develop in the 1970s and flowered with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many legitimate works began to surface — often unaccompanied by provenance documentation. Forgers took note, and took advantage of the murky situation, in part because theÃâà...
The National
April 4, 2018
“Art is a currency in a way; at the end of the day when they come to auction, the provenance is a very important element of their value.” Then he met Rob Norton, the founder of Verisart, a US-based start-up that's using blockchain, the ledger technology underlying Bitcoin, to verify the authenticity of artwork.
Smithsonian
April 4, 2018
Unseen challenges portraiture's tradition, says Asma Naeem, the Portrait Gallery's curator of prints, drawing and media arts and a co-curator of the new exhibition. .... Gonzales-Day's modus operandi is to dig behind the representations, thoroughly researching the provenance of existing art pieces, identifying those whoÃâà...
CoinCentral
April 3, 2018
With pieces in the fine arts market selling for tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars, it's important that you're buying what you think you're buying. Similar to blockchain's use in ... Blockchain art provenance is a method of proving the ownership of original creations via blockchain. It works like this:.
Insider Louisville
April 3, 2018
The purchaser's only recourse to recover damages for a purchase of stolen art may be against the dealer/seller. If the buyer has recorded the artwork's provenance and bibliography, and it supports a public chain of title, then the true owner's claim may be weakened. This is not an issue when you purchaseÃâà...
ARTnews
April 3, 2018
... Seven on Seven include video-sharing platforms, safe sexting apps, and digital provenance services. Zachary Kaplan, the executive director of Rhizome, said in a statement, “Over ten editions, [Seven on Seven] has done so much to make the argument that the fields of technology and art must learn fromÃâà...
Busselton Dunsborough Mail
April 3, 2018
A new tour group has launched in the South West taking visitors to exeperience contemporary and visual art throughout the region. A range of small group experiences are on offer with the guidance of local artisans who have a deep commitment to wellness and nurturing creativity in everyday life. RangingÃâà...
South China Morning Post
March 31, 2018
Attempts by Malcolm Duncan, formerly of South Africa, to sell the hands back in 2007 were scuppered by controversy over provenance and a possible missing charitable donation. This time he's had better luck, albeit with an unusual buyer. Making the gold castings of Nelson Mandela's hand.
artnet News
March 29, 2018
Experts from the Henry Moore Foundation have traveled to Bern but so far, no verdict has been delivered. The work on paper's provenance is also problematic, like many pieces in the Gurlitt hoard. Hildebrand Gurlitt tended to focus on French and German art rather than British. But he did deal in Moore'sÃâà...
ArtfixDaily (blog)
March 29, 2018
Located in the heart of New Orleans' historic French Quarter, our peerless showroom houses one of the world's most extensive and stunning collections of museum-quality fine art by artists such as Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso, 18th- and 19th-century antiques, and breathtaking jewelry, including rareÃâà...
CoinCentral
March 28, 2018
Physical works and digital art will also benefit from blockchain art provenance–the ability to track art back through its owner history all the way back to the artist. All told, blockchain is already radically changing art as we know it. From Rare Pepes to Anime, blockchain and technology is expanding what weÃâà...
New Mexico State University NewsCenter
March 28, 2018
Roy Montibon, CEO of Montibon Provenance International Inc., is working with NM FAST to combat fraud in the Native American art market. ... Just this month, National Geographic Digital reported that a well-known Albuquerque business owner pleaded guilty to two felony counts for violating the Indian ArtsÃâà...
Art Newspaper
March 27, 2018
It was removed from the sale after the Art Loss Register flagged its provenance and Doyle informed Ukraine, but the country has made no move to recover it. The picture is believed to be at the auction house still. Ukraine's ongoing military conflict with Russia creates another problem. Objects seized byÃâà...
BLOUIN ARTINFO
March 26, 2018
Provenance: Private collection, France. Estimate: 40,000 - 60,000 € (US$ 49,614 – US$ 74,420). - Maurice de Vlaminck (1876 – 1958) – Landscape. Oil on canvas, Signed lower right "Vlaminck", h: 46.20 w: 55 cm. Estimate: 40,000 - 60,000 € (US$ 49,614 – US$ 74,420). - Othon Coubine (1883 – 1969)Ãâà...
Greater Wilmington Business Journal
March 26, 2018
Today, the Wilmington resident has a large collection of art, including Minnie Evans' work, “one of the blue chip, better, top-tier folk artists,” he said. ... Objective evaluation of art includes provenance (record of ownership over time), authenticity, originality, condition, rarity and the artist's biography and placeÃâà...
BLOUIN ARTINFO
March 25, 2018
Exhibited: Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Alvar Sunol: Paintings and Prints; April 5 - May 9, 1982. Reproduced as a double page illustration in "Alvar", by Jacques Lassaigne, Antoni Guasch, Guillem Cabrer and Edmund Newman, 1982, pages 156 – 157. Canvas: 59" x 78.75"; Frame: 69.5" xÃâà...
CoinCentral
March 25, 2018
The impact of blockchain on the art and collectibles is often misunderstood within the cryptocurrency world, let alone the general population. Blockchain provides a solution to many of the fundamental issues that plague the art collection and creation communities today: ownership provenance, copyright,Ãâà...
Financial Advisor Magazine
March 24, 2018
Trust -- or lack of it -- is at the core of the challenge, with potential buyers balking at the possibility of spending considerable sums on works whose provenance can't be fully verified. The value of fake art sold is almost double the real thing, said Norton, the former chief executive officer of Saatchi Online andÃâà...
CoinCentral
March 24, 2018
One important application is blockchain art provenance, helping art buyers establish a history of previous owners all the way back to the original artist. The benefit of using blockchain is its ledger is immutable and append-only. It would be difficult to forge, fake, or change the provenance of a piece of artÃâà...
artnet News
March 22, 2018
Tracing the provenance of artworks looted during the Nazi era has been a major topic of public discussion: World Jewish Congress president Ronald S. Lauder delivering a speech on the issue of Nazi-era looted art, at the Kunsthaus in Zurich, February 2, 2016. Photo courtesy Michael Buholzer /AFP/GettyÃâà...
Art Newspaper
March 20, 2018
A dearth of translations has impeded study of Middle Eastern Modern art history. “With the lack of full documentation and forensic investigation, we can only rely on provenance and logical reasoning,” says Nada Shabout, from the University of North Texas, who co-edited the publication and sits on ArtÃâà...
CoinCentral
March 20, 2018
But with the advent of the camera and now digital imaging, copying art has become trivial. A new level of forgery also exists. This makes blockchain art provenance a promising field. In the digital age, the challenge for art is copying. First, the camera made it possible to reproduce prints of any painting. NowÃâà...
BLOUIN ARTINFO
March 17, 2018
Estimate: $ 18,000 - $ 22,000. - Attributed to William James, (Active 1730 – 1780) (British School) – View of Santa Maria Della Salute, Venice, with the Grand Canal. Oil on canvas, 79 x 130 cm. Provenance: Apparently, Christies 18/6/1977, Lot129 Stencil mark verso, '304S X'. Estimate: $ 25,000 - $ 45,000.
artnet News
March 15, 2018
He was, however, found guilty of lesser fraud charges for fabricating the provenance of four artworks. The Israeli art dealer and collector Itzhak Zarug and his business partner Moez Ben H. were arrested in June 2013 after a German police raid found over 1,000 suspected forgeries in apartments andÃâà...
Terre Haute Tribune Star
March 15, 2018
She has worked on museum projects including WWII art restitution and provenance research at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Guess has also taught art history at ... Guess' talk is being offered in conjunction with the Vigo County Public Library's 2018 National Endowment for the Arts Big Read Program.
Austin Chronicle
March 14, 2018
Also fitting is the provenance of many of the cult traditions the Appalachian granny witches: Scottish and Irish traditions of magic and gramarye. The hauntings evoked here are ripples through time, the half-lives of trauma and unspeakable violence, inherited rites and superstitions. Horan's flat paper-cut andÃâà...
The Guardian
March 14, 2018
Victorian arts minister Martin Foley, whose government is in the process of preparing to negotiate a treaty with Aboriginal peoples and has committed to ... Another fiction, for which art galleries and museums bear responsibility, concerns the provenance of cultural materials produced by and collected orÃâà...
cleveland.com
March 14, 2018
The provenance or ownership history of the works, which depict a monumental stepped pyramid and a pile of ceramic jugs, includes the collection of Anita Brenner, the scholar of Mexican culture and history. She commissioned Weston in 1925 to provide photographs to illustrate her book, "Idols BehindÃâà...
Cleveland Scene
March 13, 2018
The museum's performing arts series showcases a range of artists in Gartner Auditorium and in the galleries themselves. Provenance Cafe contradicts the old saying about art in restaurants and food in museums. As one of the world's top museums with free admission, it's no wonder CMA is one of theÃâà...
HamletHub
March 13, 2018
For nearly two decades, Gorayeb has specialized in art historical research on the provenance and attribution of works of art. Handmade: Women Reshaping Contemporary Art includes artwork by a diverse range of over 15 female artists with a focus on fiber and textile arts. Artists of note include Lesley Dill,Ãâà...
Architectural Digest
March 13, 2018
Provenance always adds a certain cachet to objects that surface in the decorative arts world, whether at auction or in a shop. Call it star power: Who can forget when a sterling silver tape measure owned by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was sold for near $42,000 at Sotheby's back in 1996? One star-powerÃâà...
Antiques and the Arts Online
March 13, 2018
Provenance for many of the items in Skinner's March 3 American furniture and decorative arts sale included some of the top dealers in those categories. ... Several of the game boards, weathervanes and an exceptional face jug, included the names of prominent folk art specialists in their provenance:Ãâà...
artnet News
March 12, 2018
Art Industry News: Guggenheim Acquires Provocative Animal Artwork Removed From Its China Show + More Must-Read Stories ... While the DA is investigating around 40 cases of illicit trade, some say that even the market for objects with no evidence of problematic provenance threatens to grind to a halt.
ArtfixDaily
March 12, 2018
... the Bernsteins' luxe apartment in the landmark Dakota in New York City's Central Park West, said to be the most famous apartment building in New York City, where they famously entertained celebrities and their friends in music, arts and entertainment worlds. The couple avidly collected art, antiques andÃâà...
artnet News
March 9, 2018
In Macron's speech delivered in Burkina Faso last November, he went beyond art and artifacts in France's public collections, declaring: “African heritage can't just be in European private collections and museums.” The outcome of the French head of state's meeting with Benin's president, Patrice Talon,Ãâà...
Artsy
March 9, 2018
... it's got great provenance. The piece (on offer for €1–2 million) once belonged to Jay C. Leff, a Pennsylvania man who assembled an extensive bounty of Pre-Columbian artifacts; it was included in an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum devoted to Leff's collection in the late 1960s. Made from volcanic stoneÃâà...
Art Newspaper
March 9, 2018
Van der Doort took his stewardship of Charles's collection seriously, as his meticulous inventory of the king's art, taken in around 1638, shows. (The inventory, complete with dimensions and provenance notes, can be seen in London in the Royal Academy of Art's (RA's) exhibition, Charles I: King andÃâà...
Art Newspaper
March 9, 2018
“The Met is and will remain engaged in ensuring the provenance of our collection and items on loan… this recent activity reflects our proactive approach and our productive working relationships with ... Steinhardt, Phoenix Ancient Art gallery and the Met have all seen their holdings challenged in the past.
Deutsche Welle
March 8, 2018
The exhibition "Germany Is Not an Island" in Bonn features the latest acquisitions for Germany's official contemporary art collection. What do these .... While the Bern exhibition focuses on "degenerate art," the Bonn show includes mainly Nazi-looted artworks or those of questionable provenance. The worksÃâà...
Daily Sabah
March 8, 2018
Schnabel, the lawyer for the Mondrian heirs, said it would have been "hopeless" for Mondrian to try to reclaim his works because they were deemed "degenerate art" after the Nazis took power in Germany in 1933. Mondrian himself left Europe for the United States and died in exile in New York in 1944.
Hindustan Times
March 8, 2018
Schnabel, the lawyer for the Mondrian heirs, said it would have been “hopeless” for Mondrian to try to reclaim his works because they were deemed “degenerate art” after the Nazis took power in Germany in 1933. Mondrian himself left Europe for the United States and died in exile in New York in 1944.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
March 8, 2018
Louise Lippincott, curator of fine arts for 27 years at Carnegie Museum of Art, will step down July 1. She's the third top leader ... More recently, Ms. Lippincott worked on the Art Tracks team, an initiative to use data visualization for researching the chain of ownership, called provenance, of artworks. Upon herÃâà...
artnet News
March 7, 2018
A local art enthusiast may have identified a rare print by Renaissance master Raphael hanging in a small, rural church outside of Richmond, Virginia. ... Since that day, he's made it his mission to investigate the provenance of the piece and has spent several years researching the artwork's origin, compilingÃâà...
The Providence Journal
March 6, 2018
The Nazis looted Kann's mansion outside Paris in October 1940 and took more than 1,200 works of art. Kann died in 1948. The Kann Association made its initial claim to the Picasso at RISD in 2010. RISD commissioned art provenance expert Laurie Stein to investigate. RISD said Stein and RISD curatorsÃâà...
Help Net Security
March 6, 2018
Recently, there has also been a convergence between the language of information security and art criticism: we now talk of 'provenance', 'curation', 'authentication' and 'attribution'. In our world, this is the language of governance and regulation. Forensics provides evidence of who, what, and how. TodayÃâà...
Art Newspaper
March 5, 2018
The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)'s board of trustees have denied a claim on a painting by Pablo Picasso which the heirs of the prominent art Paris collector Alphonse Kann said was looted in occupied France by the Nazis. The Cubist work, Femme assise au livre (Seated woman with a book)Ãâà...
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