Wednesday, December 30, 2015

"Police Say Rome Airport Workers Ran Art-Theft Ring"

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Story here .

"Prioritizing giving to the arts over other charities comes from the passions, what donors think matters."

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Michael Rushton on effective altruism and the arts.  (For more on effective altruism, see here and here .)
Tuesday, December 29, 2015

I'm beginning to think they might not solve this case

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Boston Globe:   Latest search for Gardner paintings came up empty .
Thursday, December 24, 2015

"Five Legal Cases Changing the Art Market as We Know It"

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Really good end-of-year  piece by Laura Gilbert at Artsy.  Not all five are "cases," but I especially liked her take on the propo...
Monday, December 21, 2015

"Even a secretive museum is better than no museum."

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Kriston Capps has a long post on the issue of collector-founded museums, discussed recently here . To his credit, he seems to recognize it...

This is why nobody authenticates any more

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The New York Post :  "A California man claims in a Manhattan lawsuit that he lost out on an $800,000 payday after a Russian art foundat...

In limine

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The Art Newspaper's Laura Gilbert:   Lawyers battle to tip balance of evidence before Knoedler trial . Trial starts Jan. 25.

"If we could ban slippery slope arguments, the quality of public debate would be vastly greater."

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Eric Posner on the deaccessioning debate. Not really -- he's talking about something completely different .  But I really liked that q...
Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Held in the public trust (television spectrum rights edition)

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This story from a few days ago put me in mind of the deaccessioning debate.  Howard University has its own public television station, and i...

Here We Go Again

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Another infringement suit against Jeff Koons. Story here . The experts -- including my co-teacher Amy Adler -- weigh in here .
Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Second Circuit Affirms Haring Decision

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Earlier this month, the Second Circuit affirmed a District Court decision dismissing authentication-related claims against the Haring Founda...
Wednesday, December 09, 2015

Lawsuit of the Day

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New York Post :  "A Manhattan man is suing the Met, claiming it’s committing sacrilege by depicting Jesus as a blond."
Tuesday, December 08, 2015

Second Circuit Affirms Biro Dismissal

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Story here .  Opinion here .  Background here .
Saturday, December 05, 2015

"Exactly why the opera destroyed the sculpture is unknown."

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"Two years after artist John Raimondi learned the Palm Beach Opera had sold one of his signature bronze sculptures for scrap, he has se...
Thursday, December 03, 2015

Another Knoedler Settlement (UPDATED)

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This one involving John Howard and the fake de Kooning he bought for $4 million.  Laura Gilbert has the story in The Art Newspaper:  "...
Wednesday, December 02, 2015

"With the settlement, both are resolute that they will not have anything to do with each other in the future."

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A settlement in the Danh Vo-Bert Kreuk lawsuit.  Background here .
Tuesday, December 01, 2015

"More than a million people have visited The Barnes Foundation since the art museum moved to Philadelphia from a suburb in May 2012."

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"That's almost three times the number of visitors who saw its extensive collection in its former home in the five years before the ...

"It is hard to overstate the gravity of the Castelvecchio thefts."

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Thomas Marks on the recent theft of 17 paintings from one of Verona's most important museums.

"The letters were sent after an article in The New York Times earlier this year that examined the proliferation of tax-exempt private museums created by wealthy art collectors, sometimes in their own backyards." (UPDATED)

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The NYT's Patricia Cohen reports that the Senate Finance Committee is looking into the issue of collector-founded museums, "questi...
Monday, November 30, 2015

"In May last year, Fayadh was sentenced to four years in prison and 800 lashes. But on 17 November, another judge in the court of Abha in southern Saudi Arabia ruled that Fayadh be executed for apostasy."

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The Art Newspaper:   Art world rallies around artist sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia .