APPLICATIONS INVITED. MAs IN THE HISTORY AND BUSINESS OF THE ART MARKET

Deadline for scholarships applications: 31st May 2013
Deadline for applications: 15th July 2013
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IESA (the Institut d’Etudes Superieures des Arts, Paris) runs two highly regarded MA programmes on…
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US retakes top market position from China

On Friday, 15 March, the art economist Clare McAndrew is due to present the findings of her annual art market report at a panel discussion held during Tefaf in Maastricht. Focusing on the emerging market of China and Brazil, the report reveals a…
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Sotheby’s $20m test of the Warhol market

Sotheby’s is selling Andy Warhol’s silkscreens Green Disaster (Green Disaster Twice), 1963 (est around $ 12m), and Suicide, 1964 (est $ 6m-$ 8m), both from his “Death and Disaster Series”, at its contemporary art evening sale in New York…
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Things that go pop: Jeff Koons’s seesaw market

One American artist seems to be everywhere this year. At the Fondation Beyeler here in Basel, the acclaimed exhibition “Jeff Koons” opened on 13 May (until 2 September). The celebrations continue in Frankfurt on 20 June, when simultaneous…
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Credit card investigation shows art market open to international fraud

A criminal network is believed to have targeted more than 30 auction houses across the UK, using fake credit cards to steal works of art. While initial reports claimed that the suspects only approached regional auction houses, it is now clear that…
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Fears grow that Greek art market is riddled with forgeries

A major Greek collector has taken Sotheby’s to court in Athens over two alleged fake paintings attributed to the Greek artist Constantin Parthenis (1878-1967). The case has stoked fears that the Greek art market is riddled with fakes, which may have…
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Rubens masterpiece “made for market”

The restoration of a painting by Rubens from London’s Courtauld Gallery has revealed that the work was probably not a commission, but created for the speculative market. Cain Slaying Abel, around 1608-09—one of the most significant works by…
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