ARTISTS
2020
Is there anything left to know about the scandal that roiled M. Knoedler & Co., one of the world鈥檚 oldest galleries, and brought it to an untimely end in 2011?
For 15 years, one of New York鈥檚 most prestigious art galleries sold forged paintings 鈥� a new film explores how the art world fell for it
The saying goes that a person suspected of committing a crime will have their day in court.
2019
As the art world grew and became ever more global over the past decade, it was rocked by #MeToo allegations and accusations of unethical patronage, the formation of unions and calls for the destruction of artworks.
Three features are due to examine the Knoedler forgery scandal
2018
Lawrence Rubin鈥攏oted dealer of Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Diebenkorn, Nancy Graves, Robert Motherwell, and Helen Frankenthaler, among others鈥攄ied in Zurich on August 16 at age eighty-five.
A Chelsea (New York), art/antiques dealer, claims to have found six late paintings by the Abstract Expressionist Willem De Kooning in a New Jersey lock-up storage unit.
2017
One of the residual lawsuits from the scandal involving the Knoedler & Company gallery has ended with a court settlement between a man who bought a fake Rothko sold by the gallery and a Swiss art expert whom he had accused of aiding in the fraud.
The Long Island woman who fooled the art world by pawning off paintings by an unknown artist from Queens as the work of Modernist masters was sentenced to time served on Tuesday, more than five years after her actions helped lead to $80 million in fraudulent sales and the...
A drop in volume, court battles and authenticity issues dogged 2016 and no one is sure if the new presidency will be good or bad for business.
2016
Scandals involving increasingly skilled forgery have rocked the art world this year, ringing alarm bells for buyers and sellers alike.
When art historians, museum curators, or law enforcement officials suspect that a work of art isn鈥檛 genuine, they call Orion Analytical, Martin鈥檚 one-man 鈥渕icroniche materials analysis and consulting firm.鈥� Over the years, he has examined everything from Egyptian artifacts to...
Sotheby鈥檚 has added a scientist to its ranks. The auction house has hired James Martin鈥� a man who calls his stereo microscope his 鈥渂est friend鈥濃�攁nd acquired Martin鈥檚 firm, Orion Analytical. Martin will join the auction house and establish its Scientific Research Department,...
Judge's findings reveal what to look out for in art transactions
Sixty years ago, well before Ann Freedman sold a Mark Rothko forgery to Domenico and Eleanore De Sole, Knoedler was part of a very different trial, this time on the prosecution side. Below is coverage from the ARTnews archives of how, in 1956, Knoedler sued Wildenstein & Co....