Press Releases

Fine Art Registry® Wins Mediation on Domain Name Violation Against Park West Gallery Hired PR Consultants

On October 22nd, 2008, the World Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration and Mediation Center ruled in favor of Fine Art Registry and against Park West and its hired PR practitioners in an important case of domain name misappropriation where Park West Gallery consultants had set up a website "aboutfineartregistry.com" for the purpose of slandering Fine Art Registry and advancing their own commercial ends, as detailed in the Administrative Panel Decision, Fine Art Registry versus Cartoon Heaven (Cartoon Heaven being the cover under which the website was set up and operated).

International Dali Experts and Art Crime Police Find Dali Prints Sold by Park West at Sea to be Fake – Fine Art Registry Releases Full Length Video

Global Fine Art Registry, LLC, announces the release of a 48-minute documentary video about Salvador Dali fakes. The video includes interviews with a leading German art crime detective, Ernst Schöller, world renowned experts on Dali original works, Robert and Nicolas Descharnes, and international Dali graphics authority, Frank Hunter, Director of the Salvador Dali Archives, Ltd. They examine two prints sold by Park West Gallery for thousands and tens of thousands of dollars at cruise ship art auctions, and determine that they are fakes.

Masterpiece Artist Canvas Sponsors Fine Art Registry CEO, Theresa Franks, to Deliver Workshop on Provenance and Authenticity of Art and Join Masterpiece at the 2008 Annual Namta Convention in Reno Nevada

Masterpiece Artist Canvas, who have for some time been shipping their top-of-the-line Elite Canvases with Fine Art Registry tags already attached, is sponsoring Theresa Franks, Founder and CEO of Phoenix-based web company, Fine Art Registry, to deliver a workshop at the 2008 NAMTA (International Art Materials Trade Association) annual convention on April 30th, prior to the opening of the trade show itself which runs from May 1st to May 3rd.

Park West Gallery and Park West at Sea Attempt to Silence Consumer Advocacy Group with Strong Arm Legal Tactics

Park West Galleries, a Michigan based company best known for selling art on board cruise ships, has filed a series of lawsuits against the consumer advocacy group which spoke out regarding reports of inflated prices, misrepresentations and deceptive trade practices on CBS's Inside Edition in February of this year. In retaliation for Fine Art Registry exposing Park West's activities on that program and on the Fine Art Registry website, and for assisting Park West customers who approached Fine Art Registry, with education about works of art they bought at the cruise ship auctions, Park West recently filed suits against the company and some of its personnel, claiming libel and defamation. The suits are an attempt to stop the flow of information about Park West and to stem the tide of refund requests which have multiplied since the airing of the Inside Edition exposé and Fine Art Registry advocacy.

Fingerprint Forgery and Fabrication Expert Finds Fingerprints on Alleged Jackson Pollock Painting were Forged.

Commissioned by Global Fine Art Registry, LLC., world renowned fingerprint forgery and fabrication detection specialist, Pat Wertheim, examined fingerprints found on an alleged Jackson Pollock painting which had been "authenticated” by self-styled art forensic specialist, Peter Paul Biro of Montreal, Canada (the same expert who was featured in the movie Who the %$#@ is Jackson Pollock? as having "authenticated" the painting Teri's Find as a Pollock). The investigation is now complete. In what is only the second ever known case of fingerprint forgery in the history of the science, Pat Wertheim found that the fingerprints on the alleged Pollock were forged, planted there by an inked rubber stamp made from a cast of a fingerprint on a paint can at the Pollock-Krasner House.

Filling The Gap In Art Law Knowledge. Fine Art Registry and Attorney Gail Christensen Provide Art Related Law Lectures to CLE 123 Inc.

Fine Art Registry® is working with Arizona attorney and legal consultant, Gail Christensen to record a series of lectures on a variety of topics about art and the law. These lectures are available from CLE123 Inc. for CLE credit in New York, California and Arizona as well as being for sale as stand-alone lectures without CLE credit, both downloadable and on CD from Fine Art Registry.

CBS's Inside Edition Features Fine Art Registry As Advocacy Group For Those Who Feel They Have Grossly Overpaid For Art At Cruise Line Art Auctions

On 11 Feb 08, CBS's Inside Edition aired the results of an investigation into cruise line art auctions which it had been conducting for quite some time. The Inside Edition investigative reporters had been on the cruise ships attending auctions held by Park West at Sea, a division of Park West Gallery of Southfield, Michigan, and had interviewed a number of people who had bought art at cruise line auctions on the understanding that it was a bargain and an investment, only to come home and find that they had been grossly overcharged and that the same pieces were available on land for a third or less of the price they had paid.