Great article in this week’s New Yorker about the art authentication business. The Mark of a Masterpiece – David Grann – New Yorker, July 12, 2010

Images from the show are now available in the online gallery.

“It’s the first time we had Andy Warhol at the Bronx Museum.”

NYT: And Now, an Exhibition From Our Sponsor

Lawrence B. Salander, noted Upper East Side art dealer, was charged with stealing from investors and collectors.

A noted Upper East Side art dealer has been indicted on charges he stole $88 million from investors and collectors who consigned artwork to him and said they were cheated out of the sale proceeds or never saw the pieces again, according to a person briefed on the case.

Read: NYT: Art Dealer Charged With Stealing $88 Million

Why didn’t anyone realize right away that there was something seriously weird about the new piece of art in Brussels?

A short clip from the 2008 holiday party up on the fifth floor.

For the last couple of years Hirst has also been painting…

Now at the Asia Society through January 11, 2009

“When is it done?” is an issue that most artists struggle with. Two major elements of the artistic temperment – flow and what could be described as its opposite – a compulsion torwards perfection – are so often at odds. While inspiration may come in an instant, an eloquent expression of that inspired moment generally requires considerably more time to make. Often times I work on something and decide it’s finished, only to come back days later seeing nothing but flaws. Other times I see something close to perfection when I revisit a rough sketch I set aside early in the process.

George Grosz, New York 1932
Water color painting is very old. The first colors with which men began to paint were water colors. The early fresco painters also employed a kind of water color-a tempera color-which was made principally of egg and a species of cherry gum.