A TLTC Blog
The dispute has cast an awkward spotlight on a closely held company better known for its discretion as well as on a hedge-fund pioneer — and a member of Christie’s advisory board — who has repeatedly been caught up in disputes about the provenance of…
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The pencil drawings were among the effects of the famously crusty London dealer Eila Grahame, who died in 2010.
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Judge says that neither Christie’s nor the bidder presented anything that showed that their privacy could not be maintained via a protective order.
Read moreSophia Kishkovsky looks into the history of Soviet ceramicist Oksana Zhnikrup and the Kiev workshop-factory where she created the figurines – to which, by the way, Koons did, in fact, purchase rights.
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Last week the company was fined $3 million for having purchased cuneiform tablets and other ancient items (which will be returned) apparently looted from Iraq for the museum’s collection. Here, Noah Charney writes about different allegations: that the Green family (Hobby Lobby’s owners) acquired papyrus fragments used to bind Egyptian mummies that had been removed […]
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According to the report, only 83 of 2,000 artifacts from the pre-Hispanic, or pre-Columbian, era could be certified as museum-quality by an independent team of museum curators who came from Mexico City to conduct the test. The other 1,917 are considered “decorative,” and will probably be given to schools or smaller museums before the museum […]
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