The Art Law Blog

Speaking of excellent points by Amy Adler (who by the way co-teaches the best art law seminar in the world), she has a terrific new law re...

The Financial Times:   How an artist's legacy became big business . Related:   What Artists Should Do to Protect Their Legacies before...

This one from Laura Gilbert in The Art Newspaper. A previous example here . I continue to think the answer is "not much."

Artnet collects reactions to the Peter Doig case from various experts, all interesting and very much worth reading. Amy Adler makes an e...

The Art Newspaper's Julia Halperin has the details , including that "[u]nlike the plaintiffs in the previous cases, Salazar—who pos...

The Washington Post's Peggy McGlone had a story last week on the demise of the Corcoran Gallery: Homeless art, lost jobs and low enrollm...

The New York Times:   The Artist Peter Doig Wins a Case Involving a Painting's Attribution . But of course, nobody really won here . ...

The Washington Post reported last week that, in the Monkey Selfie appeal , a "prominent anthropologist at the University of Notre Dame...

I don't generally cover a lot of restitution stuff, but I did write a piece for the Journal of Art Crime on the Norton Simon-Von Saher ...

The Art Newspaper reports that the Artist Pension Trust has made its first distributions to participants.  That's nice, but it's al...

Stories by Dan Duray here and Brian Boucher here .

artnet's Dushko Petrovich has you covered .  Another report here .

I was away last week, but the big art law story continues to be what artnet news rightly calls the "bizarre" authentication trial ...

Alex Tabarrok on copyright protectionism .

I'm quoted in this piece on the subject in the Observer.

Los Angeles Business Journal:  " Trial Judge Denies Artists Request to Reconsider Royalties Decision ."  "While the law has b...

The billion dollar demand may lead you to think of the recently-filed lawsuit against Getty Images as less than serious, but it's not a ...

Story here .  Appropriate reaction from Mike Masnick here .  Background here .

Kevin Smith doesn't think so, at least not in the form envisioned by the recently introduced CASE Act :  "I think that the propose...

artnet :  "French scholar Marc Restellini has braved death threats over his efforts to authenticate works by the Italian artist Amedeo ...