Hot Off the Press: Breaking Art News
Losing Everything for Park West GalleryThe story of Jim Shlosser and his wife, Judy, who were lured by Park West Gallery away from the very successful auction company they owned, to go to work on the cruise ships selling Park West art where they soon lost everything they had.
Art News, June 23, 2009
The Great Art Con - From the Inside OutA veteran Park West Gallery auctioneer, no longer working for the company, called us with her story. By revealing this information she hopes to help customers who have been pressured into buying potentially fake or overpriced art get their money back and also to bring an end to unethical and dishonest art auction practices aboard cruise ships.
Art News, June 9, 2009
Behind the scenes at Park West Gallery cruise ship art auctions.We interviewed four people who had recently gone to train at Park West Gallery to become Art Directors and Auctioneers aboard cruise ships and had subsequently begun to work on cruise ships, only to find that there was a wide gulf between the promised life of lucrative luxury and the real world of selling art on the ships. Their experiences should prove valuable for others who are contemplating a career in cruise ship art auctions and also enlightening for cruise ship art auction goers who can get a flavor of what it's like behind the scenes at a cruise ship art auction.
Art News, June 8, 2009
Quotes From an ex-Park West Auctioneer Who Quit After Years at Sea. Direct quotes from a Park West auctioneer who quit, disillusioned, after years of making money with Park West at its cruise ship art auctions. They give an idea as to why he eventually quit and went on to get a "real job selling real art"...
Art News, June 3, 2009
Press Release - Park West Gallery Secretly Owned Eight of Rembrandt's Copper Etching Plates Since August 2003, Four New Articles From Fine Art Registry® Reveal.
Press Room, May 28, 2009
Oh What Tangled Webs They Weave! Park West Gallery is at it again. It seems that they have a problem with communicating the truth, even when it comes to addressing the respected courts of this country.
Art News, May 27, 2009
The following was submitted by the relative of a physician who has spent over $600,000 on art, mostly from Park West Gallery on cruise ships and online. It is published as submitted. Steal a TV go to Jail, Steal a Billion or two and...
Art News, May 22, 2009
Fine Art Registry has filed a counter-claim against Park West Gallery in the Michigan Oakland County Circuit Court (Case No. 08-096952-CZ), accusing the gallery of defamation.
Art News, May 12, 2009
Letter from a former Park West Art Associate. "I recently left my position as an art associate with Park West at Sea on board the Carnival Inspiration. After months of pay disputes, accusations about our work ethics, and being lied to by our company, my art auctioneer and I both decided to leave the company..."
Art News, May 11, 2009
"You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave." Change in Policy Regarding the Hiring and Letting Go of Auctioneers. On May 7, 2009, we received the following information from an informed source...
Art News - May 8, 2009
A counterclaim against Park West Galleries, Inc. was filed on 4 May 2009 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division on behalf of Fine Art Registry.
Art News, May 7, 2009
The Detroit News reports that Park West Gallery is named in federal lawsuit. New Yorkers filed a class action suit against Park West art gallery for alleged fraud.
Media Coverage, April 18, 2009
The self-proclaimed largest art gallery on the planet has been sued again! It was just reported to Fine Art Registry that a class action lawsuit has been filed in Michigan against the beleaguered Park West Gallery, Inc., including its CEO, Albert Scaglione, as well as other related companies, Park West at Sea and PWG Florida, Inc...
Art News - April 17, 2009
On March 21st 2009 we received the following unsolicited e-mail from a former Park West auctioneer who had read some of the material published on the Fine Art Advocacy and Fine Art Registry websites...
Art News - April 6, 2009
According to several Park West sources, the Park West Gallery auctioneers aboard the Disney cruise ships were told, on March 16th or 17th 2009, to pack their bags and leave the ships. "We have discontinued our relationship with Park West," confirmed a spokesperson at Disney Cruise Line today, March 19th...
Art News - March 20, 2009
The Detroit News reports of Park West Gallery's announcement of art auction withdraw from cruise ships on board Holland America Line, stating the cause of the withdrawal due to the global slow down in the economy.
Media Coverage, March 10, 2009
The ads were part of a cyberterrorism (or at least cyberyapping) campaign instigated by the beleaguered Michigan art gallery, through their PR agency, Fleishman-Hillard...
Art News - March 9, 2009
Park West Galleries, Inc. also operates in Michigan under the assumed name Circle Fine Art Liquidators. What we have uncovered here calls into serious question the ethics of the appraiser and...
Art News - March 3, 2009
Park West Galle(r)y Slaves? Indentured Service at the Art Auctions Afloat - or How to get two and a half months' or more work out of someone for no pay before replacing them with the next sucker...
Art News - February 25, 2009
Information received from currently or recently contracted Park West auctioneers and other personnel. They are published here in the interests of the buyers and potential buyers of art at the cruise line art auctions, so that they can be fully aware of what they are dealing with.
News, February 24, 2009
According to several reports received from Park West Gallery auctioneers aboard cruise ships and from other sources, at the end of January 2009 Park West Gallery ordered ship auctioneers to stop selling the company’s large stock of Salvador Dali prints and return all unsold inventory to headquarters in Southfield, Michigan.
Press Room, February 23, 2009
Fine Art Registry received comments from a former insider with Park West Gallery. Though the email was anonymously delivered, what is stated here has been corroborated by other independent sources and we believe the statements to be true and accurate to the best of our knowledge.
News, February 21, 2009
In a news article entitled,
Dealer drops Dali print sales, Mike Martindale reports that Park West Gallery has stopped selling Salvador Dali prints on cruise ship art auctions, ordering all Dali inventory returned to gallery headquarters.
Media Coverage, February 21, 2009
In a news article entitled,
Southfield art gallery's defamation case in Florida dismissed, Delores Flynn reports that Park West Gallery defamation case against Fine Art Registry® in Florida is dismissed.
Media Coverage, February 16, 2009
Park West's defamation case against Fine Art Registry was dismissed by US District Judge Ursula Ungaro on 10 February 2009, "for failure to prosecute in the name of the real party in interest," thus ending Park West Gallery's boasts of a "multi-state legal suit against Fine Art Registry" so frequently repeated in its press releases, paid internet ads, and to dissatisfied customers calling in to request refunds for artwork purchased.
Press Room, February 12, 2009
In a news article entitled,
Park West sued by customers, Martha Lufkin reports plaintiffs demand refund for "fake" works against Park West Gallery. Fine Art Registry® is referenced.
Media Coverage, February 4, 2009
In a news article entitled,
Park West denies they defrauded buyers in cruise ship auctions, Catherine Saunders-Watson reports about ongoing Park West Gallery cruise art auction lawsuit. Fine Art Registry® is referenced.
Media Coverage, February 2, 2009
In light of the recent spate of black PR propaganda forwarded by Park West Gallery and its henchpeople, we decided it was high time to begin letting all those nasty skeletons out of the PWG (Park West Gallery) closet. We can assure you, and it is an understatement to state that you have never seen the likes of these skeletons. They have deep, dark secrets that we are certain Park West Gallery would just as soon bury forever in the deepest depths of Sheol. But we've got the Skeleton Key and we're ready to unlock the door.
News, February 4, 2009
How do you deal with dissatisfied customers who demand a refund? Sue them!! And do what you can to silence anyone who tries to help them in their plight..
In a new fit of customer services zeal, the beleaguered Southfield, Michigan based art gallery has decided to deal with its dissatisfied customers by suing them for defamation and other trumped up allegations when they complained about and demanded refunds for art they bought which later was found by internationally renowned experts to be grossly misrepresented by Park West auctioneers and senior executives in terms of investment value and authenticity.
Article, January 31, 2009
Dispelling the Myths and Fabrications Created by the Wild Imagination of the Park West Gallery Propaganda Machine.
There seems to be no end to the machinations of Albert Scaglione, Park West Gallery and its hired public relations spin doctors. And while it is not unusual to see the truth twisted and bruised in the unscrupulous world of propaganda, it is dangerous indeed to rape and pervert the facts to the degree exercised by Park West Gallery and its henchpeople.
Article, January 31, 2009
It was recently brought to our attention through Caponigro Public Relations, Inc. (Park West's PR spin doctor) that Albert Scaglione and Park West Gallery donated over 40 million dollars (that's right - 40 million dollars) of its own inventory to a number of public universities and institutions across the U.S., the bulk of them educational institutions in the states of New Jersey, New York, Michigan and Ohio.
Article, January 30, 2009
Park West Galleries, Inc. sued for art fraud. Park Newspaper article, "Print Predicament: What is original?" that was published in the Detroit, Mich. News on December 12, 1976.
Article, January 28, 2009
In a news report entitled,
Park West Gallery Under Fire in Lawsuit, Jennie Miller reports about the lawsuit against Park West Gallery for claims of selling fraudulent art to 10 plaintiffs.
Media Coverage, January 14, 2009
In a news article entitled,
Divine Farce, Annie Reed reports Joseph Barabe, local scientist, helps investigate art fraud, in ongoing Park West Gallery Dali art fraud investigation. Fine Art Registry® is referenced.
Media Coverage, January 13, 2009
In a news report entitled,
LAWSUIT: Southfield Gallery Sold Fake Art, Peggy Agar reports about the lawsuit against Park West Gallery for claims of selling fake art to customers.
Media Coverage, January 12, 2009
In a news article entitled,
Suits Claims Sale of Forged Art at Southfield Gallery, Mike Martindale reports about the lawsuit against Park West Gallery for claims of selling forged artwork to customers. Fine Art Registry® is referenced.
Media Coverage, January 12, 2009
Sharon Day and her husband Julian Howard were sold a full set of Salvador Dali's Divine Comedy prints for close to half a million dollars by Morris Shapiro of Park West Gallery in Southfield Michigan. This was sold as an investment with representations of it being a rare investment opportunity. Not long afterwards, circumstances changed and Julian and Sharon decided to liquidate their "investment."
Case Study, January 10, 2009
A Complaint and Demand for Jury Trial was filed on 23 December 2008 against Park West Galleries, Inc., Albert Scaglione and Morris Shapiro (owner and gallery director, respectively) and Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., by the Farmington Hills, MI, attorneys, Kaufman, Payton and Chapa, for Plaintiffs Albert and Vivian Best, Sharon Day, Julian Howard, Deborah Austin, Cheryl Crist, Heidi Rice, Michael and Maria Vallillo and Martha Szostak, all customers of Park West Galleries and all, except for Albert and Vivian Best, Fine Art Registry members.
Press Room, January 7, 2009
On December 18th, 2008, the Honorable Lawrence P. Zatkoff of the Southern Division of the Eastern Michigan District Court, set aside a Default judgment against Fine Art Registry in the case filed by Park West Galleries Inc, claiming defamation in articles published on the FineArtRegistry.com website.
Press Room, January 5, 2009
Global Fine Art Registry, LLC, has produced and released a documentary video in which internationally renowned experts on Salvador Dali and a research scientist examine a set of Dali
Divine Comedy prints sold by Park West Gallery for close to half a million dollars, and state their unanimous opinions that the prints bear forged Dali signatures, in addition to a number of other anomalies in the set of boxed prints.
Press Room, January 5, 2009
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