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Co-founder Jane Cohan says the revamped site will offer galleries around the world a virtual space to show buyers their wares.
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Plus, Bonhams auction house is making a play for contemporary art.
View ArticleArt & Crime: Art Investment Scam Fleeces Hundreds in France
Marble Art Invest promised unrealistic returns and was never even authorized to do business in France.
View ArticleArt Market: Sotheby's Boosted Sales to a Bubblicious $4.8 Billion in 2010
The New York-based auction house touted its year-end revenue as the highest since 2007, joining arch-rival Christie's in benefiting from the market resurgence.
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Plus, a new Netflix for art?
View ArticleOld Masters & Antiquities: Will Afghanistan's Buddhas, Blown Up by the...
A German expert has a plan to reconstruct one of two massive statues that were destroyed ten years ago in the Bamiyan valley.
View ArticlePostwar & Contemporary Art: I Smell a Rat!: The True Creator of Lowbrow Art's...
The family of Don "Monté" Montéverde claims the landmark graphic was stolen by Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, who has claimed the glory and the profits.
View ArticleMuseums: World's Richest Man Carlos Slim Inaugurates Mexico City Museum, With...
The Mexican megabillionaire's $34-million Soumaya Museum, designed by Slim's son-in-law, will showcase the communications magnate's vast art holdings.
View ArticleThe Daily Checklist: Damien Hirst Gets First U.K. Retro During Olympics,...
Plus, Congressman Anthony Weiner is shocked, shocked, by a naked artwork.
View ArticlePostwar & Contemporary Art: Mysterious Street Artist JR Unveils Plan to...
The "Inside Out" initiative is the recipient of the TED Prize, which comes with $100,000 and the contacts to make the epic project happen.
View ArticleThe Daily Checklist: United States Plans to Combine Venice Biennale and...
Plus, where's Damien Hirst at the Armory Show?
View ArticleArt and Politics: The New Egyptian Government Can't Fire Zahi Hawass ...
The fast-talking antiquities minister seems to have his own personal timeline when it comes to the looting of the Met's excavation site in Egypt.
View ArticlePostwar & Contemporary Art: Art for Zeus: Britain Picks 6 Public Art Projects...
A Lady Godiva puppet, a junkyard band, and a crocheted-lion-mobile are some of the more unusual grant winners.
View ArticleThe Daily Checklist: Is Charlie Sheen a Performance Artist Too?, Rahm...
Plus, Chinese artists are fighting back after being evicted in Shanghai.
View ArticleDesign & Architecture: Norman Foster Triumphs in Bid to Design Vast $2.8...
The British architect's proposal, described as "rooted in Hong Kong's urban DNA," beat out rivals including Rem Koolhaas's OMA.
View ArticleImpressionist & Modern Art: How Psychologists and a Team of Monkeys, Babies,...
Further foiling wannabe contemporary art debunkers, Boston University researchers proved that a studio art degree is worth something.
View ArticleArt & Crime: Samurai Swords and Financial Hocus-Pocus: The Saga of Art Dealer...
The former Rhode Island art peddler is on trial for conning investors including a doctor/inventor and a karate-loving janitor out of $6 million.
View ArticleDesign & Architecture: The Five Most Spectacular Architectural Projects in China
ARTINFO China spotlights the most ambitious and interesting buildings that people are talking about in the booming country.
View ArticleThe Daily Checklist: Fox News Calls Art the "Key to a World of Great Sex,"...
Plus, does the record Picasso's Tate Modern destination provide a clue to its mystery owner?
View ArticlePeople: The Discreet Enigma of George Economou: A Greek Magnate Unveils His...
ARTINFO France spoke with Economou, whose feverish collecting shows a distinctive take on art history.
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