The Art Law Blog

Frank Pasquale on Thomas Kinkade's apparent attempt to establish broad intellectual property rights "over a style and manner of pa...

The Long Beach Museum of Art and their former director have settled their lawsuit. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed. For backg...

The LA Times's Mike Boehm reports that the financially troubled LA MOCA has released the following statement: "MOCA has received ...

From the Daily News : "A New York art gallery owner was nabbed Friday for commissioning dozens of knockoffs of Matisse, Calder and oth...

Regarding the recent decision discussed here , Josh Baer wonders how it's possible that the Basquiat Authentication committee could pos...

In The Art Newspaper, ADAA President Roland Augustine writes in support of The Artist Museum Partnership Act.

A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that Sotheby's had announced that it was done with guarantees. Now Christie's too says it will...

There was a decision earlier this month in a NY state court case that could have far-reaching implications for the auction houses. In 1990 T...

The New York Post reports that the City Council "last week began considering limiting the number of art vendors to two per block"...

Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento spots another case of "institutional censorship and curatorial alteration," this time in New York: "...

Peru has reportedly approved a plan to bring a lawsuit against Yale for the return of the Machu Picchu artifacts. BBC News story here . Pa...

The Art Market Monitor reports that Sotheby's is done with guarantees.

In the Halsey Minor-Sotheby's litigation , the parties are skirmishing over whether Minor's separate class action lawsuit in Califor...

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The Boston Globe's Cate McQuaid has the story of painter Nick Lawrence, who in 2004 "stopped by his studio at the Boston Center fo...

A while back, I noted that the London police were recruiting art historian-types to form a volunteer art squad. Now, The Art Newspaper has...

ARCA (The Association for Research into Crimes against Art) has announced a new Masters Program in international art crimes studies. The fi...

Lee Rosenbaum notes that the painting that was the subject of the documentary "Who the #$%& is Jackson Pollock?" is being of...

Derek Fincham points to a report of two men being indicted for looting Native American sites in Nevada. He thinks it may be connected to th...

Seattle Weekly updates the story of Roxanna Brown, who died in federal custody last May , four days after being arrested in connection with...