Art and Artifice

I am very pleased to report that on October 24, 2014 I will be speaking at The John Marshall Law School Review of Intellectual Property L...

In the Washington Post, David Montgomery reports on a fascinating episode in the tale of contemporary art curatorship. In "Corcoran b...

When we last caught up on the situation , creditors of the city of Detroit were looking to the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) collection as...

Another post on Art & Artifice on looted art. This case concerns two sixteenth-century oil paintings looted in 1940 from the collectio...

This blog has often covered cases and disputes over art stolen from Jews during World War II. The most recent news on this topic appears t...

Apologies for the cross-post to readers of the 1709 Blog who may already have seen this, but we Artisans and Artificers have received notic...

The bloggers of A&A have quite diligently followed the City of Detroit's bankruptcy case, and the implications that the case may...

Reports this week from San Francisco that a local man has been charged with federal mail fraud in the US District Court, and is being held ...

It's been a while since we checked in with the state of affairs in Detroit. You may remember, this time last year, we reported here a...

Last year saw several claims by Cambodian officials in respect of art they allege was looted from Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge regime. On...