Emily Weintraub Fine Art

10/27/2025

We interrupt this investigation for some sartorial splendor...

Is he even real? The internet had many questions after a photo began to circulate.

03/17/2025

How unfortunate that the prospect of legal liability has become so great that experts prefer not to express their opinions. But I'll always trust the conclusions of the trained eye over AI.

Attributing a work to the artist generally requires authentication by the Van Gogh Museum, but lawsuits and an influx of requests have made it reassess that role.

10/08/2022

Attribution is such a fraught thing. I hope this painting was a family piece, possibly started by Vermeer and finished by his eldest daughter and secret apprentice.

Museum researchers said there was enough evidence to warrant changing the attribution of one of its four Vermeers.

10/03/2021

Adieu Christo. Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped was such a beautiful bookend to his career and a gift to Parisians. I’ve admired his and the late Jeanne Claude’s installations since I watched the documentary Running Fence (1977) long ago. They shifted one’s perspective on landscapes in surprising ways, then played with time by taking it all down only weeks later, leaving the projects to exist in memory (and, happily, in several documentaries).

09/21/2020

A beautiful and uplifting project in difficult times.

The artist Ragnar Kjartansson has built his reputation around endurance works, and a Milanese church will host his latest: the same romantic tune repeated hour after hour, day after day, for a month.

10/10/2018

I'm raising my hand for this appraisal! This "damaged" piece wasn't damaged at all. It was completed by the artist in the sales room, and the lucky buyer realized an immediate increase in value. A great case study on the fluidity of value.

The British street artist Banksy appeared to pull off one of his most spectacular pranks on Friday night, with a frame that shredded his “Girl With Balloon” after it sold.

09/26/2018

A new podcast that brings back into focus the details of this long-ago robbery.

It remains the most valuable — and confounding — art heist in history: 13 artworks stolen from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Twenty-eight years later, not a single piece in a haul worth half a billion dollars has surfaced. The art, and the thieves who made off with it, remain at la...

12/12/2016

Thrilling to read! The owner's reaction on hearing the value of his drawing is wonderful.

A retired doctor visited a Paris auction house in March with a portfolio of drawings. It contained a work now attributed to Leonardo da Vinci and valued at about $15.8 million.

06/27/2016

It is predicted that fewer pieces will come to market in Britain because of the weakened pound, but experts maintain that art will persevere as an asset class.

03/31/2016

This article brought to mind Georges Seurat's sublime, haunting conte crayon drawings.

After the Industrial Revolution, artists started getting creative with some newly available black materials. An exhibit at LA's Getty museum celebrates their exploration of the shadows.