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David Phillips
- International Writer & Photographer
David Philips is a freelance writer, photographer and designer based in Seattle,
Washington. He has been freelancing around the world since 1985, has been published
in numerous magazines, and has co-authored several books. An artist himself, art is
one of his favorite subjects to write about. You can see his work at
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Park West Gallery Director Morris Shapiro deliberately fed false information to the public via The Artist’s Magazine. His article was published under threat of legal action by Park West Gallery...
Read MoreArt Article, July 7, 2009
In 1998, the publication of a new, modern edition of eight Rembrandt etchings was begun under the banner of the Millennium Impressions which continued successfully until August 2003...
Read MoreArt Article, May 28, 2009
Park West responded to articles #1 and #2 in this series by building a whole new website in which they confess, after all these years, when they had no way out of it, that they have owned the...
Read MoreArt Article, May 14, 2009
Park West Gallery Buys Eight Rembrandt Copper Plates and Conceals their Ownership. Why the Secrecy? In August 2003, Park West Gallery secretly bought the eight copper plates that up to that time...
Read MoreArt Article, April 10, 2009
The Millennium Impressions – Recent Posthumous Etchings Made from Eight Rembrandt Copper Plates. An introduction to the Millennium Impressions, the provenance of the plates they were printed from...
Read MoreArt Article, April 8, 2009
Did someone forget to remove the color from inside the loop of the "D" in Dali’s signature when they carefully applied it to a print in the Park West Gallery catalog of "The Divine Comedy, Sacra...
Read MoreArt Article, December 1, 2008
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 to suit them...
Read MoreArt Article, October 27, 2008
Authentication - What it is and Who Does it. It may be too obvious but it’s worth stating: a genuine painting by Picasso, by Jackson Pollock, by Rembrandt, by any famous artist, can fetch tens or...
Read MoreArt Article, October 21, 2008
When Joseph Cioffi formed the basic concept for Artletics in ’98, it was for him the perfect marriage of his two great passions in life: sports (athletics) and art. Eight years working for Disney...
Read MoreArt Article, August 22, 2008
Fake originals and prints are a huge industry, and a scourge on the art market today. This is a study of forgery and fraud concerning two Salvador Dali limited edition prints.
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Read MoreArt Article, June 10, 2008
Ana Cabrera is the first Fine Art Registry™ member in Argentina, although she and her partner Segismundo Ulanowicz have been spreading the word and others are following suit. Ana’s story is...
Read MoreArt Article, March 1, 2008
The following material has come to us from a variety of sources. They all are or were in a position to be able to provide accurate data. Of course we have been unable to verify any of the informa...
Read MoreArt Article, January 22, 2008
In the third week of September this year, from the 15th to 22nd, I invited my mother to enjoy what I thought would be a relaxing seven night cruise so that we could celebrate her 80th birthday in...
Read MoreArt Article, November 30, 2007
In our article of 21 September, The Art Auction Afloat – Continuing in a Long Tradition of Piracy on the High Seas, we detailed the experiences of Avery and Joyce Hershkowitz with regard to a Park West...
Read MoreArt Article, November 29, 2007
Case Study: Betty Waudby is quick to acknowledge the fact that she exercised poor judgement when she bought three Salvador Dalí prints from Park West at Sea while on a Royal Caribbean cruise...
Read MoreArt Article, November 15, 2007
Bruce Hochman may be Salvador Dali’s greatest fan. Author of The Annual Print Price Guide to the Graphic Works of Salvador Dali, Bruce is also the Gallery Director of the Salvador Dali Gallery...
Read MoreArt Article, November 6, 2007
The following is, unfortunately, a true story. It is illustrative of how Park West at Sea art auctions and auctioneers work to fleece unsuspecting people of large sums of money under the false pr...
Read MoreArt Article, October 23, 2007
Park West at Sea (the cruise line arm of Park West Galleries), Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, Carnival Cruise Line, Global Fine Arts, GE Money, et al. There is something honest...
Read MoreArt Article, September 21, 2007
Another tale involving Paul Biro "authenticating" a possible Jackson Pollock (a different one), the same fingerprint, the same Tod Volpe in the background with schemes to separate the unwary...
Read MoreArt Article, July 24, 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 MoreArt Article, February 26, 2007
A lesson in keeping records and photos of antiques and collectibles — In the early hours of Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007, while Andrew and Kelly Vogel, owners of Wellesley House...
Read MoreArt Article, February 1, 2007
Francis Hogan (“Frankie”) Brown is a master of splatter-dash painting and a lot more besides… In 1999, in celebration of his 20th year of painting in the splatter-dash genre, which he began...
Read MoreArt Article, November 18, 2006
Not finding what she was looking for as an art collector, Lorna Wallace took matters into her own hands and began to create the missing art herself. In just a few years, marketing her paintings...
Read MoreArt Article, June 1, 2006
After nine long months the baby is finally born. It’s a girl! In the hospital she is quickly tagged so that there can be no confusion as to which baby belongs to which mother. She is given a name...
Read MoreArt Article, April 12, 2006
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