On October 25, 2011, a lawsuit was filed in United States District Court for the Western District of Washington by Brian Wells, against Benjamin "Ben" Valenty and his respective companies for art... Read More
The art industry is completely unregulated, and as most in the industry know, literally anything goes. As a result, art crime and fraud is widespread, unchecked, and is a serious worldwide threat... Read More
As most in the art world now know, Peter Paul Biro is suing the New Yorker magazine and its writer, David Grann, and others for defamation. This third article in our continuing series will focus... Read More
As promised, this is the second article in what will be a continuing series of articles on the Fine Art Registry investigation into Peter Paul Biro and company. You will recall from our initial... Read More
BREAKING NEWS: The self-proclaimed "art authenticator" (cough-cough) Peter Paul Biro, has foolishly thrown down the gauntlet, accusing award-winning writer, David Grann and Conde Nast... Read More
As technology takes many industries to the heights of efficiency, effectiveness and control, the fine art industry seems to be moving to greater levels of disorganization, inefficiency, and chaos... Read More
It's hard to believe that we are coming up on the four year anniversary of our reporting on cruise ship art auctions. Since that time, in an effort to silence Fine Art Registry from reporting the... Read More
A Closer Look at Art Authentication and Attribution. Everywhere you turn there's a piece of artwork being sold. With a good deal of them, there's also a bit of paperwork including provenance... Read More
When things go wrong with an art deal they really go wrong and it's difficult for many to admit that they have been a victim of an art scam or crime. Many are embarrassed that they didn't know... Read More
A fascinating article entitled "The Mark Of A Masterpiece" has just been published in the world renowned and highly respected magazine The New Yorker. Teri is grateful to the author David Grann Play Video
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