The Art Law Blog

John Myatt, "the man believed to be the world's most-prolific art forger," about whom I blogged here , has another exhibition ...

In response to the lawsuit I mentioned here , the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art has made its (now closed) King Tut exhibit more accessible t...

The Seattle P-I's art critic, Regina Hackett, had a long and interesting story last week about Dale Chihuly's recent legal (and oth...

Bloomberg has this story on Sotheby's increased use of "guarantees" to attract business. In a "guarantee," the au...

To celebrate the anniversary of his birth last week, Google came up with a Miro-inspired version of its logo. The Artist's Rights Societ...

. . . and the biggest theft -- not just art theft, but theft period -- in U.K. history happens .

Traveling this week. Blogging will resume next week.

In today's New York Law Journal ( $ ) my old Paul Weiss colleague Lew Clayton discusses a recent Southern District decision on the still...

In this week's New York Observer Simon Doonan responds to what he calls artist Jack Pierson's "desire to maintain a worldwide ...

David D'Arcy has much more on Pennsylvania's $25 million grant to the Barnes, which I wrote about here .

From Canada, a lengthy story in The Globe and Mail about a recently settled lawsuit involving the question whether jewelry designs can be p...

The Denver Post looks in on the progress of the planned Clyfford Still Museum there (via Tyler Green ). Still died in 1980. Under the unusu...

The story of the museum visitor who tripped over his shoelaces and smashed three 17th century Chinese vases just got a little more interest...

Either way, the result is five months in prison.

Two men -- one 79 and one 80 years old -- face charges in Vienna for vandalizing a sculpture of Mozart they considered pornographic. The 80...

Today's New York Sun has more on the attempt to seize Persian antiquities as a way to enforce a terrorism-related federal court default...

A timely follow-up to my post below on the right to destroy: The New York Times reported yesterday on the controversy surrounding the publ...

A documentary about Daniel Johnston, previously mentioned here , opened in New York yesterday. The New York Times review is here ; more her...

Via Will Baude , fascinating article in the Yale Law Journal by Chicago law professor Lior Strahilevitz offering what he calls a "qual...

The Barnes Foundation is getting $25 million from the State of Pennsylvania to help with its move to downtown Philadelphia. Tyler Green tak...