At the World Economic Forum last week in Davos, at an event organised by the Financial Times and the bank Julius Baer, the Economist Nouriel Roubini launched an attack on the art market.  According to Roubini regulation is required in the art market because it suffers from tax evasion, money laundering, price manipulation and trading
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Christopher Marinello is to launch a new database devoted to art recovery and research on the 19th January 2015.  This new business, Art Recovery International,  is to specialise in art recovery, resolving complex title disputes, due diligence and provenance research.  If a dealer. auction room or collector wants to check out an artwork then the
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  What is art?  A question that has puzzled thinkers since the beginning of time.  It can be hieratic, metaphysical, other worldly, beautiful, ugly, precious, technically accomplished, literal, abstact……the list goes on and on.  The only thing for sure is that with the passage of time people gradually understand what is great art and the
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  One of Russia’s most celebrated post war artists, Valentin Sidorov, has had a successful retrospective at the Russian Museum which closed in November.  Valentin Sidorov was a contemporary of the famous generation of post war artists which included Victor Popkov, Geli Korzhev, Tair Salakhov and Vladimir Stozharov.  His pastoral and lyrical landscapes never fitted
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