Hot Off the Press: Breaking Art News - Archives 2007
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 style.
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.
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.
Article, November 15, 2007
Bruce Hochman may be Salvador Dalí's greatest fan. Author of The Annual Print Price Guide to the Graphic Works of Salvador Dalí, Bruce is also the Gallery Director of the Salvador Dalí Gallery in San Juan.
Article, November 6, 2007
Biro fingerprint evidence in Pollock painting "Authentication" found invalid by veteran fingerprint examiner, Tom Hanley.
Video, October 25, 2007
Peter Paul Biro fingerprint evidence in Jackson Pollock painting "Authentication" found to be invalid by veteran fingerprint examiner, Tom Hanley, commissioned by Global Fine Art Registry, LLC. Fine Art Registry retains fingerprint forgery expert for further peer review and examination.
Read corresponding article and previous reports:
Art Forensics
Press Room, October 17, 2007
For many of us, that word brings strong and highly varied images to mind: the somber, almost funereal pall hanging over a barn full of overall-clad men as a foreclosed farm is sold off, piece by tiny piece.
Article, October 12, 2007
Purchasers at Park West at Sea cruise ship art auctions receive a number of documents related to their purchases which contain critical terms and conditions all art buyers should understand.
Article, September 28, 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 about the traditional pirate. The bandana, the eye patch, the hook where once there was an arm, the peg leg and the cutlass. The jolly roger (skull and crossbones) flying at the mainmast. At least you knew what you were dealing with. Bandits, murderers, thieves, looters and ne'er-do-wells, but visibly so. When the pirates are dressed in suits.
Article, September 21, 2007
Dick Blick, the leading supplier of art materials, has introduced a new concept into their Fall 2007 Sale catalog, the new, Masterpiece® Elite™ prestretched canvas pretagged with a Fine Art Registry™ secure, tamper-evident seal, ready for the artist/customer to use to make a permanent record in the Fine Art Registry database. The canvases also ship with a free DVD introducing the artist to Fine Art Registry and the value of having their work tagged and registered with FAR®.
Press Room, August 23, 2007
Masterpiece Artist Canvas is pleased to announce the introduction of the Masterpiece Elite™ Canvas which is sold with a Fine Art Registry (FAR®) tag from Global Fine Art Registry, LLC already affixed to the back. "We took all our knowledge and experience in stretching canvas, and built the finest stretched canvas we could imagine."
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Press Room, August 1, 2007
A just issued preliminary report from Thomas Hanley, Chief of Police in Middlebury, Vermont, and veteran fingerprint examiner with close to 30 years experience in fingerprint identification, casts doubts on Paul Biro's claims of proving "authenticity" of a possible Pollock painting belonging to the Parker family of Long Island. Biro claimed that the "Jackson Pollock fingerprint" he found on the back of the Parkers' painting was "the same print as the one on Teri Horton's painting." Biro's much media-hyped work on the Horton painting has been withheld from peer scrutiny by Horton and Biro.
Press Room, July 23, 2007
Fine Art Registry has started work on a documentary,
Authenticating Jackson Pollock or
What Can Happen If you Don’t Tag and Register your Art. It's a look at the current art world with regard to authentication, catalogues raisonnés, art history and so on. As part of this documentary, we are going to feature five artists, FAR members only please (they can be newly joined, and the only requirement is that they have tagged and registered at least some of their art).
News, June 21, 2007
A new tag? Well, it's a different tag. A MICRO tag. The Microtag does NOT replace the regular FAR® tag. Both will be available and each will have its place and its purpose. What is the Microtag?
News, June 7, 2007
Not one but two Fine Art Registry related articles appeared in the April 2007 issue of art&antiques as well as a reference to FAR as a resource in protecting your art from theft.
Press Room, April, 2007
Accredited fingerprint examiner and police chief Thomas Hanley has completed an independent review, commissioned by Fine Art Registry™, of the fingerprint analysis carried out by Peter Paul Biró which was used to substantiate claims that a painting bought for $5 in a California thrift store by Teri Horton, was the work of Jackson Pollock. Chief Hanley concluded that the fingerprints shown in the published report were of no value for identification purposes.
Press Room, March 27, 2007
Official reports, documenting the FAR commissioned fingerprint analysis of the Teri Horton painting which is claimed to be a Jackson Pollock, are now online for public viewing.
Press Room, February 23, 2007
Once again, Fine Art Registry is in the news in Art & Antiques, the nation's leading publication for the art and antiques market. FAR member, Frankie Brown, is featured with one of his splatter-dash paintings inspired by the work of Jackson Pollock.
Media Coverage, January, 2007
