http://www.newser.com/2008 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorWed, 19 Nov 2008 12:08:53 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/32554/cruise-ship-art-dealer-faces-class-action.html?refid=rss_all_defaultPark West Gallery in Southfield, Mich., claims to be "the world's largest art dealer," flogging more works than the major auction houses through its sales on half a dozen cruise lines. But while the onboard auctions promise "good investments," the New York Times reports that Park West is selling works at tremendously inflated prices. Now the gallery is facing a class-action lawsuit by disgruntled collectors.http://www.newser.com/story/32554/cruise-ship-art-dealer-faces-class-action.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 16 Jul 2008 6:42:19 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/32341/tab-claims-its-idd-graffiti-artist-banksy.html?refid=rss_all_defaultAn exhaustive investigation has uncovered the carefully guarded identity of guerrilla graffiti artist Banksy, the Mail on Sunda y claims. The man whose works are coveted by celebrities and sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars is Robin Gunningham, now 35, who attended a posh private school as the son of middle-class parents in Bristol, in the west of England.http://www.newser.com/story/32341/tab-claims-its-idd-graffiti-artist-banksy.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMon, 14 Jul 2008 7:23:13 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/30376/fake-rembrandt-a-real-40m-self-portrait.html?refid=rss_all_defaultA self-portrait formerly considered a Rembrandt knockoff has been deemed a genuine early work of the Dutch master—and valued at $40 million. Rembrandt Laughing , executed on a small copper plate, was examined by Holland's leading Rembrandt experts. A British art collector purchased the work late last year for $4.5 million from an auction house that had appraised it at $3,100.http://www.newser.com/story/30376/fake-rembrandt-a-real-40m-self-portrait.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThu, 19 Jun 2008 0:57:58 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/27845/greek-claims-last-van-gogh.html?refid=rss_all_defaultA painting under examination in Greece is being billed as the last work of Vincent van Gogh, the Guardian reports. Seized by the Nazis from French Jews, then "liberated" by Greek resistance fighters in 1944, the work appears to be a third portrait of van Gogh’s physician, Dr. Gachet—though a notebook found with the portrait has been dismissed as not van Gogh's.http://www.newser.com/story/27845/greek-claims-last-van-gogh.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMon, 19 May 2008 13:07:39 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/24443/classic-painting-may-not-be-goyas.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMadrid's Prado Museum tomorrow opens a major exhibition, Goya in Times of War , but while the show will contain many of the master's most famous paintings from the Napoleonic invasion, his major 1808 work The Colossus has been withdrawn. The reason? After two centuries, art historians say the work might not be Goya's at all.http://www.newser.com/story/24443/classic-painting-may-not-be-goyas.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMon, 14 Apr 2008 6:16:24 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/76984/art-dealer-larry-salander-trials.html?refid=rss_all_defaultLooking back now, friends say that it was clear last summer that something was bothering Larry Salander. He had stopped returning their phone calls, and many hadn’t spoken to him or seen him in months. Those who had run into him on the street or seen him briefly at Salander-O’Reilly, his gallery on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, were struck by how haggard he looked. He seemed distracted and tense, "totally wired," one artist and longtime friend recalls.http://www.newser.com/story/76984/art-dealer-larry-salander-trials.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSun, 30 Mar 2008 7:49:40 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/22768/beloved-brit-painting-once-owned-by-hitler.html?refid=rss_all_defaultA nude painting of Venus on display in London's National Gallery for 45 years—one of the gallery's most popular works—turns out to have been once owned by Adolf Hitler. The whimsical Cupid Complaining to Venus, by German master Lucas Cranach, was given to Hitler by a prominent Nazi and hung in his apartment in Munich, the Guardian reports.http://www.newser.com/story/22768/beloved-brit-painting-once-owned-by-hitler.html?refid=rss_all_defaultFri, 28 Mar 2008 6:44:16 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/20827/new-keller-photo-surfaces.html?refid=rss_all_defaultA rare photo of a young Helen Keller accompanied by teacher Anne Sullivan in 1888 has surfaced among a family collection donated to the New England Historic Genealogical Society. The photo, which was tucked away in an album, may be the first taken of the two and the only to show Keller with one of her beloved dolls, the AP reports.http://www.newser.com/story/20827/new-keller-photo-surfaces.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 05 Mar 2008 19:49:32 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/20213/old-chess-guide-may-have-drawings-from-da-vinci.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSections of a recently unearthed manuscript, dating back to about 1500 and describing chess strategy, were likely illustrated by Leonardo da Vinci, the BBC reports. The book, De ludo scacchorum , is a collection of puzzles by Italian mathematician and Franciscan friar Luca Pacioli, a friend of da Vinci's. The striking illustrations are in da Vinci's style.http://www.newser.com/story/20213/old-chess-guide-may-have-drawings-from-da-vinci.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 27 Feb 2008 18:40:02 CST