http://www.fineartadvocacy.com/ Copyright 2011 Global Fine Art Registry LLC. Here you will find information on what Fine Art Registry is doing to help bring a little order to the world of art. en-us 06 Sep 2011 11:05:00 MST http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2011-08/park-west-gallery-and-the-art-of-the-con.php 19 Aug 2011 12:00:00 MST Avery Hershkowitz first contacted Fine Art Registry in approximately August 2007, at the very beginning of our investigation into cruise ship art auctions. The first couple of articles we published... http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2011-08/another-cruise-ship-art-auction-ripoff.php 15 Aug 2011 12:00:00 MST Fine Art Registry has been reporting on fraudulent, unfair, and deceptive art auction sales aboard cruise ships for well over four years now and the monkey business continues. You will want to... http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2011-08/insurance-investigation-reveals-stolen-dali-prints-sold-by-park-west-gallery-are-forged.php 02 Aug 2011 12:00:00 MST The following story is a warning to all prospective buyers and holders of Park West Gallery Dali inventory--and especially those Park West Gallery Dali prints that are purportedly signed by Dali... http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2011-07/peter-paul-biro-and-ex-con-tod-volpe-hit-the-mark.php 01 Aug 2011 12:00:00 MST As most in the art world now know, Peter Paul Biro is suing the New Yorker magazine and its writer, David Grann, and others for defamation. This third article in our continuing series will focus... http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2011-08/worthless-dalis-sold-on-cruises-new-york-post.php 31 Jul 2011 12:00:00 MST On their honeymoon cruise in 1998, Long Islanders Carl and Stacey Kolansky fell in love with two woodcuts by Salvador Dali. They saw them during an art show aboard their Royal Caribbean cruise... http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2011-07/park-west-gallerys-financial-abuse-of-richard-english-family.php 27 Jul 2011 12:00:00 MST Richard English and his wife, Tracey, are two more financial fatalities in a long and never ending line of Park West Gallery victims. Richard English testified at trial for Fine Art Registry... http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2011-07/park-west-gallery-propaganda-does-anyone-really-buy-this-rubbish.php 23 Jul 2011 12:00:00 MST Park West Gallery must truly believe that its customers are just plain dim or altogether brainless. Perhaps they are much too trusting in the far-fetched and completely unreliable verbal... http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2011-07/peter-paul-biro-and-his-wild-tale-of-conspiracy.php 18 Jul 2011 12:00:00 MST As promised, this is the second article in what will be a continuing series of articles on the Fine Art Registry investigation into Peter Paul Biro and company. You will recall from our initial... http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2011-07/former-park-west-gallery-auctioneer-tells-all.php 11 Jul 2011 12:00:00 MST Fine Art Registry Penny Tyler is a former Park West Gallery assistant auctioneer. On November 8, 2008, after being sufficiently indoctrinated at the Southfield, Michigan gallery by the fork-tongued auctioneer... http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2011-07/peter-paul-biro-sues-new-yorker-magazine.php 04 Jul 2011 12:00:00 MST Fine Art Registry BREAKING NEWS: The self-proclaimed "art authenticator" (cough-cough) Peter Paul Biro, has foolishly thrown down the gauntlet, accusing award-winning writer, David Grann and Conde Nast... http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2011-06/the-auction-house-know-your-risk-factors.php 04 Jul 2011 12:00:00 MST Fine Art Registry In an earlier article about auction house consigning and bidding it was noted that there are several assumptions grounding the approach to using an auction house to buy or sell your art. It... http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2011-06/park-west-gallerys-abuse-and-financial-rape-of-the-szostak-family.php 22 Jun 2011 12:00:00 MST Fine Art Registry The conclusion I came to was that I was completely swindled and that what I owned had absolutely no value.... I couldn’t breathe, to suddenly realize that I had been duped, that this was like a... http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2011-06/art-authentication-boards.php 13 Jun 2011 12:00:00 MST Fine Art Registry As technology takes many industries to the heights of efficiency, effectiveness and control, the fine art industry seems to be moving to greater levels of disorganization, inefficiency, and chaos... http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2011-05/21st-century-art-dealers.php 31 May 2011 12:00:00 MST Fine Art Registry The round up of players and their roles below is not meant to pinpoint any required activities or responsibilities. It is a quasi-representation of who does what in the creating, selling... http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2011-05/busted-again-park-west-gallery-sues-its-insurer-for-bad-faith.php 26 May 2011 12:00:00 MST Fine Art Registry The Pot Calling the Kettle Black? Is Scaglione's latest lawsuit against his insurer, the proverbial pot calling the kettle black or what? Who is really acting in bad faith here? Before we answer... http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2011-05/park-west-gallerys-financial-rape-of-the-vallillo-family.php 25 May 2011 12:00:00 MST Fine Art Registry Q. Sir, in your opinion, do you believe that Park West is engaged in unethical conduct? –Jonathan Schwartz, Attorney, April 2010. A. Unethical, criminal activity...they are worse than the Mafia... http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2011-05/madcap-trial-testimony-of-bernie-ewell.php 18 May 2011 12:00:00 MST Fine Art Registry "To my eye those signatures are not authentic..." --Bernard Ewell (Trial Testimony, March 31, 2010). As promised, this article will be the first in a continuing series on the Michigan Federal Court trial testimony of Park West Gallery's star "expert" witness, the Mad Hatter of the Park West Dali World, the bumbling, Bernie Ewell. The quote above is Ewell's sworn testimony regarding the half-million dollar forged set of Divine Comedy prints that was sold by Park West Gallery to Sharon Day and Julian Howard... http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2011-05/salvador-dali-foundation-blasts-park-west-gallery.php 17 May 2011 12:00:00 MST Fine Art Registry The following is perhaps the greatest and biggest news since Fine Art Registry announced its huge win at trial against Park West Gallery in April of last year. We are pleased to announce that the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation in Spain has formally weighed in on the legitimacy of the Divine Comedy Set sold to Sharon Day and Julian Howard by Park West Gallery for the outrageous sum of nearly $500,000... http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2011-05/round-2-park-west-gallery-royal-caribbean-jury-trial.php 09 May 2011 12:00:00 MST Fine Art Registry It has been some time since our last update as it relates to Park West Gallery and all of the related litigation that is ongoing, but it certainly does not mean that our investigation into cruise... http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2011-04/buying-art-at-sea-dont-blame-the-victim.php 09 Apr 2011 12:00:00 MST Fine Art Registry Starnes argues that art fraud is an invisible crime: you do not know you have been duped unless someone tells you. Yet in the response to assigning responsibility for purchasing cruise line art... http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2011-02/navigating-an-unregulated-art-industry-coming-soon.php 15 Feb 2011 12:00:00 MST Fine Art Registry In this new year we are working on bringing our Fine Art Registry members and readership new and continuing investigations and reports concerning the unregulated art industry, including new... http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2011-01/bernard-ewell-park-west-gallery-zany-dali-authenticator.php 27 Jan 2011 12:00:00 MST Fine Art Registry It's hard to believe that we are coming up on the four year anniversary of our reporting on cruise ship art auctions. Since that time, in an effort to silence Fine Art Registry from reporting the... http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2011-01/class-action-lawyers-slam-park-west-gallery-in-amended-lawsuit.php 06 Jan 2011 12:10:00 MST Fine Art Registry Since we are well on our way into the New Year of 2011, we thought it fitting to update our members and readership on the latest in the class action lawsuits filed against Park West Gallery that... http://www.fineartregistry.com/articles/2011-01/park-west-gallery-tightens-the-refund-noose.php 06 Jan 2011 12:00:00 MST Fine Art Registry Since Fine Art Registry first started reporting on the bad business practices cruise ship art auctions in 2007, Park West Gallery has frequently and significantly changed, revised, edited, and...