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Park West Gallery initiated a smear campaign against Fine Art Registry® to try to silence or discredit FAR® who was publishing a bit too much of the truth about Park West’s operations... Read MoreArticle, October 27, 2008
Fine Art Registry® Wins Arbitration Over Defamatory and Slanderous Statements as well as Trademark Infringement made by Individuals Linked to Park West Gallery and Hired to Hijack Fine Art... Read MoreArticle, October 23, 2008
A former Park West auctioneer, Gavin Watson, who pioneered art auctions on cruise ships before Park West Gallery ever got involved or Park West at Sea was formed. Play VideoVideo, October 10, 2008
Stephen and Kimberly Wood tell how they were sold art which was fraudulently overpriced by Park West at Sea on their honeymoon aboard the Royal Caribbean International cruise ship... Read MoreArticle, October 1, 2008
The following description of the various ways that cruise ship art auctioneers and associates trick the auction attendees and clients and rip them off for their own profit and the profit of the... Read MoreArticle, August 31, 2008
Five part video series in which Fine Art Registry takes Salvador Dali prints to world renowned Dali experts and authorities in Stuttgart Germany, Paris France and New York for their expert Play VideoVideo, August 28, 2008
Photographs provided by the Salvador Dalí Archives Ltd., of New York City. Their provenance is Mara and Giuseppe Albaretto, Turin, Italy.... Read MoreArticle, August 28, 2008
I write this to you as a cautionary tale so that you may avoid the consequence of losing your artwork as I did mine. I submitted a piece of artwork to a charity auction that was organized by a... Read MoreArticle, July 29, 2008
Fine Art Registry member, sculptor, author and teacher Cork Marcheschi is currently teaching a summer session at the prestigious Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington. Play VideoVideo, July 1, 2008
Art auctions have been a popular pastime on cruise ships for over a decade, auctioning off everything from Picassos and Dalis to the works of up-and-coming living artists. And while all who atten... Read MoreArticle, May 11, 2007
My daughter’s school had a fundraiser of sorts at a North Beach clothiers. It was Friday night and early winter darkness was sharp and clear. I love seeing the darkness on the eastern edge of... Read MoreArticle, March 27, 2007
BUILDING TOMORROW’S ANTIQUES - "We are building tomorrow’s antiques,” says Rolf Gruller, General Manager and co-owner of Framer’s Workshop in Scottsdale, Arizona, recognized as one... Read MoreArticle, March 20, 2007
The art dealer is perhaps one of the most widely misunderstood and largely unappreciated professions in the art industry. There are no regulations or any other standards to which an art dealer... Read MoreArticle, February 26, 2007
June of 1970 I received my MFA degree in sculpture from the California College of Arts and Crafts. (That is a story in itself). I had applied for 110 college level teaching positions and I got on... Read MoreArticle, February 2, 2007
However you define "art", the culture or the society in which the art is created is often a key influencing factor. Chinese contemporary art is understandably reflective of the Chinese culture an... Read MoreArticle, February 1, 2007
Esam Pasha never considered himself a political painter. But when he painted over the first and largest mural portrait of deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, covering it with... Read MoreArticle, January 31, 2007
Bombs. Death. Destruction. Not the usual environment one might imagine an artist to create in. For Iraqi painter, Ghassan Ghaib, the realities that unfolded in Iraq following the U.S.-led... Read MoreArticle, January 31, 2007
Iraqi painter and printmaker Hanaa Malallah has said Iraq’s long history in the fine arts is more valuable than the country’s oil. After viewing the works of Malallah and other Iraqi artists, man... Read MoreArticle, January 31, 2007
When art and Iraq are mentioned in the same sentence it is more often than not in the context of Iraq’s ancient art and antiquities. But far beyond the art of ancient Mesopotamia, is a rich cultu... Read MoreArticle, January 31, 2007
Well, most of them anyway — After several months, there is a happy ending to a great and fun adventure for the five Hitchhikers in the Valley of Heart’s Delight and all the people who got involve... Read MoreArticle, October 17, 2006
Sadly, de Forest is our first missing hitchhiker. He is so cute, too! We hope that he is just in a large hotel, or somewhere that a signal can not escape. Either Julie or Mike will check the Blue... Read MoreArticle, August 1, 2006
Without Mario Wolczko who knows where the famous five hitchhikers would have ended up! As it is, thanks to his engineering skills you can follow their progress on a GPS tracking map. A lot of wor... Read MoreArticle, July 25, 2006
What? Messrs. Hewlett and Packard and other notable electronics pioneers spotted hitchhiking through Silicon Valley? Are we on LSD? These guys have been dead for years.... Read MoreArticle, July 17, 2006
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