The Art Law Blog

This Bloomberg piece on the state of the art market includes the following: "Christie’s, along with Sotheby’s and Phillips de Pury ...

Carol Vogel's "Inside Art" column today reports that LACMA sold 16 works at Sotheby’s yesterday for $3.8 million (more than d...

At the close of his September 2007 oral ruling granting Mass MoCA summary judgment in its lawsuit against artist Christoph Büchel, District ...

The LA Times reports : "Artist Shepard Fairey is facing a criminal investigation in connection with his admitted misconduct in the on...

I've been meaning to flag Michael Rushton's characteristically thoughtful response to my post last week on the moral hazard argume...

A Tracey Emin forgery ring ? London's ICA could close by May. "A woman taking an adult education class at the Metropolitan Museum ...

The LAT's Mike Boehm talks to Shepard Fairey, "who last fall admitted that he'd lied initially about which AP photo the '...

More reviews of The Art of the Steal , the Barnes documentary which opens theatrically soon. Film Journal International says "claims...

Felix Salmon on an artwork, by Caleb Larsen, that "is so commercial that it can’t be collected." The purchase contract apparentl...

The Deaccessioning Blog on the "breaking news" I mentioned yesterday .

In this Sunday's NYT Magazine, Arthur Lubow had an interesting article on artist Tino Sehgal, who makes "ephemeral' "live...

The AAMD agrees with itself . Well, that settles it.

I've been meaning to mention this interesting story in the LA Times on the closing of the Fresno Metropolitan Museum . First, the story...

According to The St. Petersburg Times, the Salvador Dali Museum needs $6 million to complete construction on a new building. The president...

Two-year federal prison sentence for attempting to sell stolen artworks. Duveen was right ! (Related post here .) Lindsay Pollock on the r...

The NYT's Robin Pogrebin reports on "a round-table meeting [this morning] billed as the first discussion of deaccessioning among s...

Update on the Hotel Drouot investigation. "A 19th-century Impressionist artwork stolen off the wall of a French museum nearly three de...

ARTINFO.com : "The New York Post reports that the Metropolitan Museum of Art has pulled images of the Prophet Mohammed from its galle...

Speaking of sensible reform proposals , there've been a number of interesting follow-ups to Judith Dobrzynski's deaccessioning op-ed...

Andras Szanto has a long, interesting piece in The Art Newspaper on the situation facing US museums. The whole thing is worth reading, but...