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| Richard Prince (left) and Larry Gagosian |
As some of you have no doubt noticed, thanks to you my articles published here and elsewhere frequently appear in the top five of Google search results, even months after they are published.
Today I performed some searches on Google (using Firefox) for rankings of news that I broke and exhibitions that I reviewed.
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| Cezanne loan nixed |
Search: Russian art loan embargo
Number of Search Results: 1,190,000
Rankings:
1. My New York Observer article on Chabad v. Russian Federation, the court case that triggered Russia’s embargo on loaning art to U.S. museums
2. Jerusalem Post
3. New York Times
4. New York Times
5. Los Angeles Times
Search: Richard Prince copyright lawsuit
Number of Search Results: 153,000
Rankings:
1. New York Times
2. My New York Observer article breaking the news of Prince’s strategy on appeal and what happened to his unsold, copyright-infringing paintings
3. New York Observer
4. New York Times
5. New York Times
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| Soutine portrait |
Number of Search Results: 141,000
Rankings:
1. My review of the Soutine/Bacon show held in New York
2. New York Times
3. Huffington Post
Search: Metropolitan Museum cancels loans
Number of Search Results: 106,000
Rankings:
1. My Observer article breaking the news that the Met had canceled loans to Russia in response to Russia’s art embargo
2. New York Times (kindly and appropriately crediting my article with breaking the news)
Search: Picasso Marie Therese lamour fou
Number of Search Results: 17,300
Rankings:
1. My review of the "Picasso and Marie-Therese: L’amour fou" show at the Gagosian Gallery
2. Gagosian
3. Artnet
4. nymuseums
5. New York Magazine
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| On loan from Koons |
Search: Jeff Koons Old Masters Metropolitan Museum
Number of Search Results: 39,400
Rankings:
1. New York Observer (kindly and appropriately referring to my article, which broke the story)
2. My story uncovering Koons’ secret loans of his Old Masters to the Met
3. Telegraph
Search: Poussin fails to sell
Number of Search Results: 3,560,000
Rankings:
1. My piece on Poussin’s “Ordination” flopping at Christie’s
2. BBC
3. Wall Street Journal
Search: Cervera Hebrew Bible Metropolitan Museum
Number of Search Results: 104,000
Rankings:
1. My piece on the opening of the Cervera Hebrew Bible display at the Met
2. My piece on pages of the Bible showing unicorns in the context of French and Islamic art
Search: Richard Prince Larry Gagosian copyright infringement
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| $2.43 million paid |
Number of Results: 7,670
Rankings:
1. The Art Newspaper
2. My story (different from my Observer article mentioned above) exclusively revealing some of the buyers of Prince’s infringing paintings and how much they paid
Search: Rauschenberg Short Circuit
Number of Search Results: 8,660
Rankings:
1. New York Times
2. My piece analyzing Robert Rauschenberg’s “Short Circuit”
Search: Passion in Venice Man of Sorrows
Number of Search Results: 292,000
Rankings:
1. Museum of Biblical Art
2. Amazon
3. Wall Street Journal
4. New York Times
5. My review of the “Passion in Venice” show that examined the Man of Sorrows at New York’s Museum of Biblical Art
Images: Top from Artinfo, Cezanne and Soutine pulled from the internet, bottom image from court documents.
Image of Koons loan and text Copyright 2011-2012 Laura Gilbert
