Art and Artifice

Should any reader be in need of a wife, you have one more week to get yourself to the 'Sleeping Beauty' exhibition at the National ...

Last week saw the latest step in an art dispute between Cambodia and Sotheby's. The dispute concerns a 10th century sandstone statue. ...

In "Could babies' faces reduce crime?", posted today on the BBC website here , Daniel Gordon writes (in relevant part): ...

SBS.com reports today on a complaint that the banning of men from watching images of Muslim women without veils in an exhibition due to ope...

Before ... Few items of religious art have had such indignities heaped upon them as Ecce Homo ("Behold the Man"), a church fres...

On 7 August, in the case of Lord Edward Albert Charles Spencer-Churchill v (1) Faggionato Fine Arts Ltd (2) Gerard Faggionato (3) Jombihis...

There are two main crimes in the world of dealing antiquities: selling forgeries and selling artifacts with improper provenance, particular...

An interesting issue which has been flagged by the press recently is whether the courts are qualified to make judgments as to the authentici...

The recent case of Avrora Fine Arts Investment Ltd v Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd (2012) saw Christie's' terms and conditions o...

A Colosseum's view Italian cultural officials announced that the  Colosseum, the most important monument in the world, will be enti...