The Art Law Blog

Two Picassos worth about $66 million were stolen from his granddaughter's house in Paris Monday night. Police said there were signs of b...

Back in October, when I wrote about the multilevel slide pieces by artist Carsten Höller that had been installed at the Tate Modern in Londo...

The New York Times has this report this morning (second item): "The collage 'Relative Value,' by the Norwegian artist Jan Chri...

Derek Fincham points to criminal charges that have been brought against a group of Florida police officers for, among other things, deliver...

The LA Downtown News has a lengthy update on Kent Twitchell's lawsuit over his painted over Ed Ruscha mural. Tests are ongoing to see ...

The Buffalo News has come out in favor of the Albright-Knox sale: "The bottom line is this: The Albright-Knox Art Gallery has a worldw...

As a follow up to my post last week about the appropriation art panel, I see that Eugene Volokh quotes a great line by Judge Leval from wh...

The Buffalo News has the latest on the Albright-Knox deaccessioning. The Buffalo Art Keepers group is planning "to file a petition in ...

Carol Vogel reports in tomorrow's New York Times that approximately 170 old master paintings recently returned to the heirs of Jacques ...

Bill Patry posts his thoughts on this symposium last week regarding appropriation art, which included his "public dialogue" with...

John Perreault defends Richard Prince against those who would find fault with his attitude toward a show of his early work at the Neuberger...

Geoff Edgers had an update in this weekend's Boston Globe. They're going to be exhibited at Boston College's McMullen Museum of...

Richard Lacayo points to a long article this weekend in The Guardian about the 2004 theft of The Scream from the Munch Museum in Oslo. H...

Inside Higher Ed has a piece on "the core, ethical issues" involved in the Fisk University sale. It quotes from the Tennessee att...

I was away from the computer Friday when the big news was a front-page story in The New York Times about payments made to MoMA director Gle...

The Maine Antique Digest reports on a copyright infringement suit brought in Texas by one auction house against another over catalogue desc...

A settlement has been reached in the lawsuit involving Fisk University's attempts to sell two paintings given to it by Georgia O'Kee...

Ed Winkleman has another post up about the Richard Prince show at the Neuberger Museum, mentioned earlier here . He starts with a quote fr...

Guards at the Louvre are on strike .

Derek Fincham points to a story in the Boston Globe about the arrest of attorney Robert Mardirosian on charges of attempting to possess, c...