http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/default.php Copyright 2003-2010 Global Fine Art Registry LLC. Fine Art Registry is the World's First Permanent Online Registry and Marketplace for Art and Collectibles en-us 09 Mar 2010 22:05:00 MST http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-03/park-west-enters-into-game-of-dirty-pool.php 09 Mar 2010 22:00:00 MST Fine Art Registry Attorney's for Park West Gallery enter into a game of "Dirty Pool" by contacting Fine Art Registry's witnesses attempting to convince them not to appear at trial. The dark deception continues! Fine Art Registry Video Series, Litigation Update #13 Part 13. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-03/park-west-motion-to-silence-fine-art-registry.php 09 Mar 2010 21:55:00 MST Fine Art Registry Emergency Motion - Park West Gallery files another motion that threatens, once again, to silence Fine Art Registry and our 1st Amendment Rights of Free Speech! Fine Art Registry Video Series, Litigation Update #13 Part 12. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-03/fine-art-registry-limine-12-response-2.php 09 Mar 2010 21:50:00 MST Fine Art Registry Crossing the professional line by Park West Attorney! A forthright response to Limine #12. Part #2. Fine Art Registry Video Series, Litigation Update #13 Part 11. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-03/fine-art-registry-responds-to-limine-12.php 09 Mar 2010 21:45:00 MST Fine Art Registry Fine Art Registry responds to Limine #12. Attorney for Park West Gallery .... Advocate or Witness? A Conflict indeed! Part #1. Fine Art Registry Video Series, Litigation Update #13 Part 10. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-03/fine-art-registry-response-to-motion-in-limine-3.php 09 Mar 2010 12:45:00 MST Fine Art Registry Park West Gallery attempts to muzzle Teri Franks by eliminating her affidavit and her testimony in motion Limine #3, and keeping the jury from hearing the unvarnished truth! Fine Art Registry Video Series, Litigation Update #13 Part 9. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-03/fine-art-registry-response-to-motion-in-limine-2.php 09 Mar 2010 12:40:00 MST Fine Art Registry "It's An Eye Opener" describes the audacity of Park West Gallery and it's quest to smother and distort the truth. Fine Art Registry Video Series, Litigation Update #13 Part 8. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-03/fine-art-registry-update-park-west-gallery-litigation-video-7.php 09 Mar 2010 08:25:00 MST Fine Art Registry "Oh The Drama" - Continuing and surprising updates on the contentious legal battle between Fine Art Registry and Park West Gallery. Fine Art Registry Video Series, Litigation Update #13 Part 7. Teri Franks, CEO of Fine Art Registry Speaks Out. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-03/park-west-gallery-motions-in-limine-2.php 05 Mar 2010 00:35:00 MST Fine Art Registry Fine Art Registry CEO Teri Franks brings you a blow by blow description of Park West's Motions in Limine 11 - 17, "up close and personal!" The battle will soon be joined. Fine Art Registry Video Series, Litigation Update #13 Part 6. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-03/fine-art-registry-in-defense-of-truth.php 04 Mar 2010 22:55:00 MST Fine Art Registry Fifth in the series of Fine Art Registry CEO Teri Franks' blow by blow description of the litigation battle between FAR and Park West Gallery. Fine Art Registry Video Series, Litigation Update #13 Part 5. Fine Art Registry "In Defense of Truth" Affidavit. Teri Franks, CEO of Fine Art Registry, Speaks Out. http://www.fineartregistry.com/mediacenter/2010/legacy-of-artist-kenneth-freeman-protected-by-fine-art-registry.php 04 Mar 2010 22:00:00 MST Fine Art Registry Having one traveling museum exhibition, Artist at Work: The Kenneth M. Freeman Legacy currently at the Booth Western Art Museum in Atlanta, and sending a second museum exhibition on the road in June 2010 named Portraits of the West: The Kenneth M. Freeman Legacy, Bonnie Adams, curator of the Kenneth M. Freeman Legacy Collection, had some unique challenges to make certain the collection was protected. Bonnie Adams decided to protect the priceless originals and the authorized limited edition prints using the Fine Art Registry patented, secure tagging and registration system. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-03/park-wests-motions-in-limine.php 04 Mar 2010 11:55:00 MST Fine Art Registry Fourth in the series of Fine Art Registry CEO Teri Franks' blow by blow description of the litigation battle between FAR and Park West Gallery "World's Largest Art Gallery" up close and personal! Fine Art Registry Video Series, Litigation Update #13 Part 4. Park West's Motion in Limine 3 through 10. Teri Franks, CEO of Fine Art Registry, Speaks Out. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-03/park-west-gallery-motion-to-compel.php 04 Mar 2010 09:40:00 MST Fine Art Registry News Flash! Judge rules on Park West Gallery's Emergency Motion! Hear all about it from Teri, CEO of Fine Art Registry. "Park West Gallery's Emergency Motion to Compel" Teri Franks, CEO of Fine Art Registry Speaks Out. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-03/park-west-gallery-motions-in-limine.php 03 Mar 2010 18:00:00 MST Fine Art Registry Second in the series of Fine Art Registry CEO Teri Franks' blow by blow description of the litigation battle between FAR and Park West Gallery "World's Largest Art Gallery" up close and personal! Fine Art Registry Video Series, Litigation Update #13 Part 2. Park West's Motion in Limine 1 and 2. Teri Franks, CEO of Fine Art Registry, Speaks Out. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-03/park-west-style-bury-the-truth.php 03 Mar 2010 00:15:00 MST Fine Art Registry First in the series of Fine Art Registry CEO Teri Franks' blow by blow description of the litigation battle between FAR and Park West Gallery "World's Largest Art Gallery" up close and personal! Fine Art Registry Video Series, Litigation Update #13 Part 1. "Bury the Truth - Park West Gallery Style." Teri Franks, CEO of Fine Art Registry, Speaks Out. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-03/litigation-update-video-series-intro.php 03 Mar 2010 00:10:00 MST Fine Art Registry Fine Art Registry invites you to tune into a series of new videos featuring CEO and Founder Teri Franks as she confronts the self-proclaimed "World's Largest Art Gallery" Park West Gallery. Brought to you as it happens! Be sure to stay tuned to the cliff hanger sequences. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-03/fine-art-airbrush-artist-mike-royal.php 03 Mar 2010 00:05:00 MST Fine Art Registry Video Series Produced by Fine Art Registry Featuring Air Brush Artist Mike Royal. Part 4, Fine Art Airbrush Artist, Mike Royal Exhibits More of His Artwork! http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-03/camille-pissarro.php 01 Mar 2010 16:45:00 MST Gwen Howlett The oldest of the French Impressionists, Camille Pissarro, was in fact born thousands of miles away from France. Saint Thomas in the Virgin Islands is the birthplace of this talented, gentle man. His family ran the local general store and was prosperous enough to send their young son to Paris to study. Camille won immense praise for his promising artistic talent at this time. http://www.fineartregistry.com/featured_artist/ken-freeman/ 01 Mar 2010 12:02:00 MST Georgianna Lane Fine Art Registry is proud to feature one of our latest registered artists - the legendary Western painter Kenneth M. Freeman. Ken was truly "larger than life" and we will be profiling him in a series of articles. Here, we begin with an overview of Ken's legacy, his tremendous output and a groundbreaking new exhibition celebrating his phenomenal accomplishments. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-02/airbrush-artists.php 01 Mar 2010 12:01:00 MST Fine Art Registry As a direct result of February's article on air brush painting and purely because I wanted to open new windows, as far as our creative artistic abilities are concerned, something really astounding happened. We were contacted by one of our valued FAR members who, just incidentally, happened to be an airbrush artist. Mike Royall was very appreciative that we reported on this decidedly less than valued form of art and gave it the recognition it so richly deserves. Mike invited us to an exhibition that he and his fellow airbrush and pinstripe artists were hosting to benefit The 100 Club. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-02/fine-art-registry-artist-mike-royal.php 26 Feb 2010 08:17:00 MST Fine Art Registry Video Series Produced by Fine Art Registry Featuring Air Brush Artist Mike Royal. Part 3, Mike Royal invites you to visit Airbrush Zone store and Gallery at Desert Sky Mall in Phoenix, AZ. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-02/art-appraisals-and-authentication.php 26 Feb 2010 08:05:00 MST Dr John Daab Appraisal organizations such as the Appraisers Association of America (2009) advise their members that appraisals are opinions of value and not certificates of authenticity. This warning arises from clients of appraisers who believe that appraisals are statements of authenticity regarding the subject items being appraised. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-02/air-brush-painting-mike-royal.php 24 Feb 2010 18:30:00 MST Fine Art Registry Video Series Produced by Fine Art Registry Featuring Air Brush Artist Mike Royal. Part 2, Mike Royal presents an Award Winning SUV. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-02/fine-art-registry-to-square-off-with-park-west-gallery.php 23 Feb 2010 16:14:00 MST Theresa Franks Fine Art Registry and Park West Gallery are scheduled to duke it out at the Federal District Court in Port Huron, Michigan, on March 15, 2010. Fine Art Registry has been in training for this big event for nearly three years now and we can’t wait to weigh in. No longer will Albert Scaglione be able to hide behind the curtain. Game day is finally at hand. Fine Art Registry cordially invites all of its readers and members to attend the trial in Port Huron, Michigan. It is a public forum and you are all welcome. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-02/park-west-plymouth-auctioneering-sham-insider.php 23 Feb 2010 13:45:00 MST Fine Art Registry Fine Art Registry is receiving additional key information on the relationship between Plymouth Auctioneering and Park West Gallery in response to our recent article titled: "Park West Gallery and Plymouth Auctioneering Services, Ltd.: The Perfect Sham" http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-02/airbrush-painter-mike-royal.php 23 Feb 2010 09:23:00 MST Fine Art Registry First in Video Series Produced by Fine Art Registry Featuring Air Brush Artist Mike Royal. Part 1, Fine Art in the Eye of the Beholder. Watch artist Mike Royal in action. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-02/airbrush-painting.php 19 Feb 2010 15:50:00 MST Fine Art Registry This series of articles will attempt to bring you some varied ways to try your wings at innovative and interesting forms of Assisted Reproductive Technology, ART. First up will be: Airbrush Painting! http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-02/hand-embellished-by-the-artist.php 19 Feb 2010 07:22:00 MST Concerned Artist A series of articles about the art of graphic works, current abuses, portraits of certain people involved and other matters published here as a service to collectors, art lovers and artists.... http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-02/viper-responds-to-alex-perez-story.php 17 Feb 2010 18:20:00 MST The Viper The Viper has provided Fine Art Registry with keen insight for those that find themselves victims of Park West Gallery's deceptive and unfair trade practices. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-02/fine-art-appraising.php 16 Feb 2010 16:22:00 MST Dr John Daab This is the first in a series of articles about appraisal and appraisers. This article provides an overview of the appraisal process, its structures, system, issues and the nature of its problems. Upcoming articles will focus on authentication and appraisal value, legal and ethical standards, IRS expectations from appraisers, the appraiser credential, expert/specialist, the appraisal instructor, limitations of appraising, and the appraiser protecting himself versus his or her client. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-02/park-west-gallery-and-plymouth-auctioneering-services.php 15 Feb 2010 17:57:00 MST Fine Art Registry Albert Scaglione has from the beginning tried to distance Park West Gallery from another company he (and Park West) controls known as Plymouth Auctioneering Services, Ltd. Scaglione claims that Plymouth Auctioneering is a separate and distinct offshore entity in the Turks and Caicos Islands where it is also reported that Albert Scaglione owns a mansion or a villa. Scaglione claims that Plymouth Auctioneering is the entity that supplies Park West Gallery with all of its auctioneers (or salesmen) for the cruise ships Park West Gallery serves. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-02/artist-perez-fights-back-against-park-west-gallery.php 12 Feb 2010 18:04:00 MST Fine Art Registry Part 3. Back Against Odds. (It's not Over Yet.) - Quick as Park West's lawyers were to take advantage of Alex Perez's situation, they were not so quick to ensure that he received the court's orders. These papers were never properly served. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-02/park-west-gallery-violates-copyrights-of-artist.php 11 Feb 2010 18:52:00 MST Fine Art Registry Part 2. Legal Bullying and Strong-Arm Tactics to Cover Up Rip-offs and Copyright Violations - This is the second part of an extraordinary account of events in which the US legal system has been used to bully, frighten and suppress a fine artist of international repute simply because he tried to protect his copyrights and his artist's signature from abuse by Park West Gallery. This is not an isolated case but it is one where we do have the documents to show clearly what happened. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-02/park-west-gallery-rip-off-international-artist.php 10 Feb 2010 07:50:00 MST Fine Art Registry Part 1. Breach of Contract, Unauthorized Issue of Prints by Park West Gallery, Forgery of Artist's Signature, Fraud, Unjust Enrichment - The following documents are the result of a Fine Art Registry investigation stemming from research into some legal documents regarding an internationally known Chilean artist, Alex Perez who was all but crushed by Park West Gallery, that famous lover and supporter of artists, if you would believe its valiant CEO, Al Scaglione, who poses as the friend and discoverer of contemporary artists, a veritable reincarnation of Ambroise Vollard. The middle man in the scenario is an artist's rep and gallery owner named Rami Rotkopf, now living and working in Fort Lauderdale, who owns a company called Smart Publishers. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-02/artists-signing-series-of-serigraphs.php 08 Feb 2010 10:50:00 MST Fine Art Registry The visit to Florida and the signing of the last series of serigraphs, before the end of the contract between the agent and the artist (in May 2004). http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-02/park-west-gallery-style-lie-cheat-steal.php 08 Feb 2010 10:49:00 MST Fine Art Registry The following was recently sent to us by a Park West Gallery insider. The information comes from a reliable source who wishes to remain anonymous. It's truly astonishing how the cruise lines continue to allow the Park West Gallery con games and con men to continue working on board their ships. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-02/vipers-park-west-gallery.php 08 Feb 2010 10:48:00 MST Fine Art Registry The following article came to us through a posting in the Fine Art Registry Forum. The message is so significant that we thought we would publish it in article form so all of our members and readership can have ready access to it. We sincerely appreciate the author's contribution. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-02/artists-exhibition-at-the-great-gallery.php 07 Feb 2010 15:20:00 MST Fine Art Registry The Exhibition of the Artist's Paintings at the Great Gallery. A strange incident in a major gallery at the beginning of the century. Visit to "The Gallery", the Exhibition, and the ridiculous video shoot. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-01/the-artist-the-agent-and-the-gallery-owner.php 06 Feb 2010 11:10:00 MST Fine Art Registry Everything that Happened Between the Artist, his Agent and "The Big One" Regarding the Discovery of the Falsification of his Images, etc., from the Fax in 2000 Until Just Before the Exhibition of his Work at "The Gallery" in the USA in 2002. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-01/artists-rep-choose-with-care.php 05 Feb 2010 17:05:00 MST Fine Art Registry Episode in which the artist describes what happened with his agent between mid 1999 and March of 2000 (Extension of the contract and the Millennium Expo in 2000 in NY). http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-01/international-artist-crushed-by-ruthless-art-gallery-owner.php 04 Feb 2010 17:57:00 MST Fine Art Registry We are launching a new series of articles which take up the cause of the artist. These will either be written by us as a result of interviews on a particular artist, or will be contributed by the artists themselves. They will tend to be about abuses and infringements which artists have been subjected to. The aim is to expose these situations so that other artists and also collectors can be warned and avoid them. http://www.fineartregistry.com/featured_artist/joy-waters/ 02 Feb 2010 22:26:00 MST Georgianna Lane An arresting gaze and luminous eyes insist that you look into their depths, explore the soul behind the vibrantly hued visage and find inspiration in their multi-colored beauty. It is impossible not to be fascinated by the faces of mystery and elegance and other-worldly wisdom created by this artist of sublime vision and staggering talent. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-01/pierre-auguste-renoir.php 02 Feb 2010 22:26:00 MST Fine Art Registry Without doubt the most well known pioneers of the French Impressionist movement was born in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France in 1841. Auguste Renoir, in direct contrast to many of his fellow Impressionist artists, was born into a working class family and began by laboring in a porcelain factory as a boy. His drawing talents resulted in painting intricate designs on fine china. Unlike Edourd Manet and Berthe Moriset, his contemporaries who had the advantage of wealthy families, Auguste traveled a more arduous path to success. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-01/fine-art-insurance-agents.php 02 Feb 2010 22:26:00 MST Shaunda Clifton I am asked many times what the difference is between an agent's office and a brokerage office. It is very important to understand what each is so that you know you are speaking with the correct person and firm. It can be very confusing from the start. Like what is the difference between an insurance broker, producer or agent? Which one do I go to? Brief descriptions of their responsibilities/roles in insurance follow. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-01/fine-art-forensic-photography.php 02 Feb 2010 22:26:00 MST Dr John Daab, CFE, CFC, AFC Forensic photography or legal photography pertains to the taking of photographic images to provide evidence of facts or data surrounding an event. In providing appraisals to the Internal Revenue Service a photo of the appraised object is used not only to describe the nature of the object but also to substantiate that the object exists. http://www.fineartregistry.com/mediacenter/2010/robert-descharnes-worlds-foremost-expert-on-dali-works.php 29 Jan 2010 16:16:00 MST Fine Art Registry On December 17, 2009 the Real Circulo Artístico of Barcelona (Royal Artistic Circle of Barcelona - RCAB), Spain, issued a proclamation awarding French photographer Robert Descharnes, long term friend and associate of Salvador Dali and expert in his work, its coveted Gold Medal "For the merit which he displays, the greatest authority in the world in the knowledge and defense of the work of the artist Salvador Dalí i Domench." The award was accepted on Robert Descharnes’ behalf by his son Nicolas at the RCAB's headquarters in Barcelona on December 27th 2009 and acknowledged in a video addressed to the RCAB by Robert Descharnes who was unable to attend the presentation in person. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-01/six-blistering-complaints-against-park-west-gallery.php 29 Jan 2010 14:30:00 MST Fine Art Registry The Class Action suits filed by victims Sean Mullen and Bruce Alleman were recently transferred from Michigan to the Western District of Washington Federal Court on December 29, 2009. This now makes a total of SIX Nationwide Class Actions now before the Honorable Robert S. Lasnik in the PARK WEST GALLERIES, INC., MARKETING AND SALES PRACTICES LITIGATION. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-01/deception-and-abuse-by-park-west-gallery.php 28 Jan 2010 09:55:00 MST Fine Art Registry Fine Art Registry was contacted by Attorney James Egan of Seattle, Washington, just before the first of the year. The following is his story in his own words of how Park West Gallery hucksters tried to swindle him and his wife into a purchase of artwork - which was represented repeatedly by Park West Gallery auctioneers as a "great investment." http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-01/fine-art-media-testing-art-forensics.php 27 Jan 2010 17:16:00 MST Dr John Daab Fine art is created using many different media. There are close to 50 categories of fine art media including stone, paint, wood, paper, crayon, ink, plastic, fabric, steel, and so on. One merely has to visit a local museum to observe the many different ways artists have taken the materials from the environment to create their art. The list of categories is growing and perhaps never ending since new materials are constantly being developed via the march of technology and artistic creativity. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2010-01/court-denies-royal-caribbeans-appeal.php 25 Jan 2010 17:59:00 MST Fine Art Registry Royal Caribbean and its counsel, Hershel Fink, weren't at all happy with the Michigan Court of Appeals recent decision ordering Royal Caribbean back into the Sharon Day and Julian Howard litigation in Oakland County Michigan State Court. So Royal Caribbean stomped its feet and threw a tantrum like a spoiled child and filed a Motion for Reconsideration with the Court of Appeals arrogantly arguing that the Michigan Court of Appeals was dead wrong in its recent Order and demanding that the three Appellate Justices reverse their opinion. The Court of Appeals' response to Royal Caribbean's Motion for Reconsideration couldn’t have been more swift and sure: "The court orders that the motion for reconsideration is DENIED." http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/park-west-gallery-lawsuits/multiple-formal-judgments-against-park-west-gallery.php 25 Jan 2010 09:10:00 MST Fine Art Registry Judge Nanci Grant of the Circuit Court for the County of Oakland, Michigan entered four formal Judgments on January 21, 2010 against the besieged Park West Galleries, Inc. in favor of four victims, Plaintiffs Cheryl Crist, Deborah Austin, Al Best, and Vivian Best. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/park-west-gallery-lawsuits/greedy-dogs-park-west-gallery-and-cruise-lines.php 22 Jan 2010 16:42:00 MST Fine Art Registry Shamefully, Park West Gallery takes full and complete advantage of human frailties. There can be no question about this. We have a parade of victims and many sad stories and the evidence to prove it. Ask victims Sharon Day, Julian Howard, Mike and Maria Vallillo, Martha Szostak, Al and Vivian Best, Debi Austin, Heidi Rice, and Cheryl Crist who are currently suing Park West Gallery, as well as scores of other victims that Fine Art Registry has interviewed, and they will all tell you how they have suffered enormously at the hands of Park West Gallery and its CEO Albert Scaglione, and continue to suffer. http://www.fineartadvocacy.com/articles/2010/01/park-west-gallery-cruise-ship-auctioneers-speak-out.php 22 Jan 2010 15:54:00 MST Fine Art Registry Recently two more Park West Gallery auctioneers contacted us and gave us some further insight into the ways of the Park West Gallery art auction. This material is published here to help potential auction goers walk into the auction with their eyes wide open. http://www.fineartadvocacy.com/articles/2010/01/four-judgments-against-park-west-gallery-for-fraudulent-sales.php 21 Jan 2010 21:05:00 MST Fine Art Registry Four judgments against Park West Gallery, sued by customers who claimed they had been defrauded by the Michigan art gallery, were handed down by Michigan Circuit Court today, awarding the Plaintiffs damages of close to $9,000 against Park West. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/park-west-gallery-lawsuits/park-west-gallery-litigation-update-8.php 16 Jan 2010 11:52:00 MST Fine Art Registry It is important to explain or attempt to explain just how Park West Gallery is able to con hundreds of thousands of cruise passengers (as well as customers at land based auctions) sometimes out of their life's savings. Some of Park West Gallery's sales tactics are so subtle that it would and often does fool even the intelligent and savvy. Park West Gallery preys on all sorts of victims - they make no distinction - doctors, lawyers, college students, retirees, and especially the elderly are all subject to the rip off. http://www.fineregistry.com/articles/2010-01/scandalous-revelations-from-current-and-former-park-west-gallery-insiders.php 08 Jan 2010 12:11:00 MST Fine Art Registry A reliable source emailed Fine Art Registry after reading Litigation Update No. 5, and specifically the section in the update where we reported that Park West Gallery's own lawyer had referred to Park West Gallery artwork as "shit" while at recent depositions in NYC at the end of 2009. http://www.fineartadvocacy.com/articles/2010/01/park-west-gallery-drags-royal-caribbean-into-cesspit-of-controvesy.php 07 Jan 2010 17:36:00 MST Fine Art Registry The latest information and exciting developments regarding the barn burner litigation between Fine Art Registry and Park West Gallery. We also report here on the continuing sensational events swirling around the victims' lawsuit against Park West Gallery, and how the recent shocking Michigan Court of Appeals decision and Order weighs heavily in favor of the victims. http://www.fineartadvocacy.com/articles/2010/01/lawyers-dismiss-park-west-gallery-libel-case.php 07 Jan 2010 16:45:00 MST Fine Art Registry On January 6, 2010 The Art Newspaper published an article about the Sharon Day and Julian Howard lawsuit against Park West Gallery, entitled Lawyers dismiss Park West libel case. However non-binding judgement means part of action will still go ahead. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/art-education/berthe-morisot-french-impressionist.php 31 Dec 2009 16:55:00 MST Fine Art Registry The lovely and talented Berthe Morisot was born in 1841 to a wealthy and prominent Parisian family. The middle of the 19th century produced a number of artists of renown from upper class Paris families, including that of Edourd Manet and Edgar Degas. This fact was not surprising however when a young woman from this strata of society engaged in what was seen as a "male dominated" profession, it was shocking. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/art-insurance/art-insurance-is-not-one-size-fits-all.php 31 Dec 2009 11:05:00 MST Shaunda Clifton Insurance for fine art is a specialized field. This is an advantage because each artist needs a policy specific to his or her needs. While there are many standard policy forms such as for museums, dealers, galleries, etc. one of these may not be the best for you. A manuscript policy is one that is custom written to meet your individual needs. http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/fine-art-forensics/la-bella-principessa-case-study.php 30 Dec 2009 16:45:00 MST Dr John Daab Originally identified by Christie's auction house in a 1990 catalogue as "German, 19th Century, Young Girl in Profile in Renaissance Dress", it has now been renamed, "La Bella Principessa" by Mark Kemp, a specialist Leonardo Da Vinci art historian. According to various news releases it is a genuine Da Vinci because a smudged fingerprint found on the painting revealed by a revolutionary multispectral analysis was "comparable" to a fingerprint on another Da Vinci work. http://www.fineartadvocacy.com/articles/2009/12/park-west-gallery-lawyers-hasty-court-filings-throws-open-pandoras-box.php 30 Dec 2009 15:50:00 MST Fine Art Registry You would think that with all the money Park West Gallery and its CEO Albert Scaglione have made off the backs of innocent victims that he would be able to afford the cream of the legal crop to defend him and his gallery against the mounting nationwide litigation being filed against them. Okay, if not the cream of the legal crop, then at least halfway skilled legal counsel with the sense of a walnut to perform even the most basic of due diligence BEFORE filing public documents. http://www.fineartadvocacy.com/articles/2009/12/open-letter-on-expertise-of-dali-works.php 22 Dec 2009 13:36:00 MST Robert Descharnes Twenty years after the death of the surrealist master (January 1989), a second wave of prints is creating a scandal. During the eighties, an outbreak of fake prints invaded the market. Robert Descharnes, at the head of the Demart organization, founded at the request of the artist (1986), led the war in close collaboration with the police. http://www.fineartadvocacy.com/articles/2009/12/park-west-gallery-destino-prints.php 17 Dec 2009 13:30:00 MST Fine Art Registry But Do You Know What You Are Buying When You Buy the Destino Prints from Park West Gallery? Destino is the name of a short, animated film produced by Disney Studios, based on a collaboration between Salvador Dali and Walt Disney. Reproductions of some of the artwork on which the film is based has been turned into a series of prints, sold in limited editions of 1035 of each print mainly by Park West Gallery for thousands of dollars per print. http://www.fineartregistry.com//mediacenter/2009/court-orders-royal-caribbean-cruises-back-in-lawsuit-with-park-west-gallery.php 15 Dec 2009 18:07:00 MST Fine Art Registry An order issued by the Michigan Court of Appeals on 11 December 2009, effectively brought Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd. as co-defendants with Park West Gallery, back into a court case from which they had been dismissed. http://www.fineartadvocacy.com/articles/2009/12/park-west-gallery-remarkable-developments-litigation-update.php 15 Dec 2009 15:15:00 MST Fine Art Registry The February 2010 scheduled legal boxing match between Park West Gallery and Fine Art Registry was recently cancelled by the Michigan Federal Court. It is currently on the court's trailing docket calendar, and is expected to be reset sometime in March of 2010. Though Fine Art Registry has been ready to go head to head in the legal ring with the bully, Park West Gallery, since the originally scheduled trial date in October, this second in a row of welcome delays provides Fine Art Registry with additional time to further expose the gallery's continued bad business practices. To this end, we will in the immediate future begin with the release of a new investigative report on the Park West Gallery Destino collection. http://www.fineartregistry.com/mediacenter/2009/park-west-gallery-throws-in-the-towel-in-defamation-case.php 03 Dec 2009 09:40:00 MST Fine Art Registry On November 30th, 2009, Hon. Nanci J. Grant, Circuit Judge of Oakland, State of Michigan, ordered the dismissal with prejudice of Park West Gallery's Counter-Complaint against Counter-Defendants Julian Howard and Sharon Day. http://www.fineartregistry.com/featured_artist/dan-koon/ 01 Dec 2009 17:11:00 MST Georgianna Lane Fate is a word that painter Dan Koon might not use in describing the sometimes winding and varied but always interesting path he followed to becoming a painter. Intelligent and analytical, with... http://localhost/articles/art-education/edouard-manet-french-impressionist.php 01 Dec 2009 17:00:00 MST Fine Art Registry A paradox indeed marked the life of Edouard Manet, who is often referred to as the father of Impressionism. Born into a very well placed Parisian family, a dapper dresser and most elegant in his...