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From the AP : "Construction of The Barnes Foundation's new downtown home is slated to be complete by the end of 2011, a timetable ...

In response to this post about his dispute with Sotheby’s, Halsey Minor sent me the following email (and permission to print it): "Don...

Interesting rescission decision [ $ ] in today's NY Law Journal in a state court case involving Christie's. In 2002 a company called...

The Goya engraving stolen in Colombia last month has been "found in a Bogota hotel room after a tip-off, investigators said." BB...

In today's New York Law Journal, Joseph Gioconda argues that "the art community can learn from the actions taken by the luxury goo...

Nashville Public Radio reports that "the famous Stieglitz collection at Fisk University is in the public eye for the first time in nea...

Lee Rosenbaum had an update on Friday on Halsey Minor's battle with Sotheby's. Minor has filed an answer and counterclaim to Soth...

From ARTINFO : "Artist Ed Stross is facing 30 days in jail, two years probation, and a $500 fine for adding the word 'love' t...

Gans, Crawford, and Blattmachr respond to Joshua Tate's response to their piece in the Yale Law Journal's "Pocket Part"...

The ARTnewsletter reports that "the Board of Regents of the State of Iowa announced that it will no longer consider a possible sale of...

Online prediction market Intrade has created a futures market based on the Mei Moses All Art Index . The Financial Times has the story he...

Bloomberg reports that a former Enron exec is being sued by a New York gallery "for allegedly trying to extort more than $150,000 by c...

An art law story in, of all places, the sports pages of the New York Daily News: Wayne Coffey looks at New York's proposed " dead...

More from Carol Vogel today on the appearance of the Steve Wynn-owned "La Rêve" in New York (see earlier post here ). The show o...

Gregory Gibson, author of Hubert's Freaks (about Bob Langmuir's Arbus photos), criticizes this post of mine (as well as "nea...

Public Knowledge's Gigi Sohn reports that, with Congress adjourned, it's wait till next year for the orphan works bill.

In today's New York Times, the " indispensable " Kate Taylor reports on a series of lawsuits surrounding a 4,000-piece collec...

It appear Phillips de Pury has been sold to a Russian luxury goods company. The Art Market Monitor has the story .

You may have seen the news last week that the Corcoran Gallery plans to deaccession 10 paintings in December. You didn't think Lee Ros...