Ruling could have implications for other museums. By the time he died in 1929, French industrialist Auguste Pellerin had collected one-sixth of the artist's total output. This winter Pellerin's heirs are selling off ten paintings as well as a Rodin and a Manet. But this article, a year after he died, claims the artist relied so heavily on assistants that much of his work wasn't his own. The Young British Artists have been going for the jugular for years.
Every movement needs a history.
The earthquake in Assisi shattered Giotto and Cimabue frescoes. Computer programmers wrote a program that scans all the fragments and matches the hundreds of thousands of pieces to reassemble them. Washington's Hirschhorn Museum turns 25. This excellent profile reveals how museum director Jim Demetrion has deftly steered his museum of contemporary art through the politics of Washington and the art world. Preservationists are trying to save the thespian family's decaying Tudor mansion in Baltimore suburbs from being torn down.