The Art Law Blog

Richard Lacayo has a characteristically thoughtful response to my latest post on the deaccession wars. Essentially, he embraces the slipp...

Jori Finkel had an evenhanded, full page story in yesterday's Arts & Leisure section under the headline: " Whose Rules Are Thes...

Christopher Knight relates the gory details of what happened to an Eakins painting previously deaccessioned by the National Academy in orde...

In this morning's New York Times, Robin Pogrebin has a detailed look at the circumstances that led to the National Academy's decisi...

News out of Los Angeles this morning that "the board of the financially strapped Museum of Contemporary Art has voted to accept a $30-...

From Diane Haithman's LA Times story this morning: "The museum's federal tax returns show that early in this decade, it had sp...

Brett Littman, the executive director of The Drawing Center, writes in The Art Newspaper about "one of the most complicated and thorny...

My friend Libby Ellis of AEA Consulting has been following the deaccessioning debate that’s emerged in the wake of the National Academy’...

When I read Carol Vogel's story today about the Brooklyn Museum's decision to transfer ownership of its costume collection to the M...

The big news today was that the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has presented MOCA's board with a plan to merge the two institutions. ...

Robert Mardirosian, convicted last summer of possessing stolen goods, has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison. Story here . Fo...

Lee Rosenbaum breaks the news this evening that "the NY State Board of Regents' Cultural Education Committee this afternoon voted ...

Lee Rosenbaum posts excerpts from a "ringing manifesto" sent by the president of the American Association of Museums to the NY St...

Rebecca Tushnet on the " wonderfully chewy case ": "The court found the jury’s verdict on false advertising was supported by...

Mike Boehm and Kim Christensen's LA Times story this weekend on the financial crisis at LA MOCA mentions the museum's habit of borr...

The Art Market Monitor notices an art connection in the collapse of Dreier LLP. From the New York Times on Saturday: "The law offices...

The BBC News on retired FBI Art Crime Special Agent Bob Wittman. "For nearly two decades, usually masquerading as a crooked art deale...

Derek Fincham also weighs in on the National Academy deaccessioning, making an interesting comparison with the situation at LA MOCA : ...

Sir Norman Rosenthal, exhibitions secretary of the Royal Academy of Arts from 1977 to 2008, argues in The Art Newspaper for an end to Nazi ...

In The Amherst New Era Progress, Christa Desrets reports that the former director of Randolph College’s Maier Museum of Art , who resigned ...