Inigo Philbrick, a dealer accused of defrauding dealers and investors out of millions of dollars, was sentenced to seven years in prison by a New York court today, bringing a saga that has taken the art world by storm to an end. Last November, about a year after being detained by U.S. authorities on the island of Vanuatu, the 34-year-old dealer pleaded guilty to ...
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines CLICK AND SELL. Dealer David Zwirner has created a new tool that allows people to submit photos of work to his gallery (via phone or computer) for potential resale, Melanie Gerlis reports in her Financial Times column. This is the latest tech innovation from Zwirner, which also runs an online selling platform, called Platform, that presents work from smaller galleries. ...
The Los Angeles art dealer Douglas Chrismas has been ordered by a California court to repay $14.2 million amid an ongoing bankruptcy case, the Art Newspaper reports. The money allegedly came from art sales, and he had redirected the funds to his personal accounts. Chrismas was renowned for giving major talents, including Ed Ruscha and Michael Heizer, a platform early on at his now ...
The British dealer Steve Shovlar has been selling art for the past 15 years. He mainly deals in Old Master paintings priced between £100 and £1,500—not enormous sums, but enough for his small business to be worth £1m.But, he says, his firm is now “in ruins” thanks to Brexit. And he sees “no way out”.Since the UK left the EU on 31 January 2020, ...
Vito Schnabel (Before Night Falls), Julia Fox (Uncut Gems), and Steven Van Zandt (The Sopranos) have signed on to star in the dark comedy The Trainer, which Tony Kaye (American History X) is directing from a script by Schnabel and Jeff Solomon. In development for nearly a decade, The Trainer is based on an original story by Schnabel. The film unfolding over eight days of sleep-deprived chaos follows Jack (Schnabel), a down-on-his-luck ...
Charles Obach, the gallery boss who sacked his assistant Vincent van Gogh for being clumsy at dealing with customers, eventually sold two of his drawings, we can reveal. These included Landscape with Walking Woman, which was auctioned at Christie’s in London on 2 March for £1.7m.Christie’s tracked down the provenance of the first drawing, finding that it had been owned by the Munich-based Galerie ...
As part of a case related to embattled dealer Inigo Philbrick, who pled guilty to wire fraud last year, another art dealer has also been indicted. News of Robert Newland’s indictment, which was unsealed on Friday, was first reported by Artnet News. In the indictment signed by U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss, a grand jury charged Newland, who is currently the head of sales for ...
What art would you try to sell Paris Hilton? Dealer Bella Haykoff knew exactly whose work to put in front of the socialite star: Armenian artist Martiros Manoukian, a painter of colorful female portraits. Works by the artist now hang in the Hilton family estate and even made an appearance in some of Paris’s wedding photos. Haykoff is an entrepreneur, art dealer, and collector who ...
It appeared one winter’s night on a steelworker’s garage, a wondrous piece of street art making points about the innocence of childhood, industrial decay and air pollution.After a three-year sojourn in the town of Port Talbot, Season’s Greetings, Wales’ first and only Banksy, was craned on to the back of a flatbed lorry and trucked out of the country.As the work headed towards the ...
A startling lawsuit filed in a New York court accuses art dealer Barbara Gladstone and her senior partner, Max Falkenstein, of conspiring to ruin a former employee’s career, including a job prospect with painter George Condo, after she raised red flags about unlawful compensation and sexual discrimination at the gallery. Laura Higgins, a gallery manager at Gladstone in New York from 2016 to 2021, says she ...
