Art and Artifice

We have quite regularly discussed different cases of art stolen from Jewish families by the Germans during World War II on this blog. The on...

J ane Peel, on the BBC website, reports on litigation over a professional negligence claim hinging on the attribution of the painting il...

In the recent US case Crile v Commissioner , the IRS sought to show that the forty-year career of a well-known artist, some of whose works ...

This weekend I had the pleasure of participating in a panel presented by Washington Lawyers for the Arts at Geek Girl Con  in Seattle....

New York's Metropolitan Museum has acquired the nearly 4,000 year old Egyptian "Treasure of Haregeh" from Bonhams after it was...

The United Kingdom, like any modern multiracial and multicultural society, takes great pains to protect minorities from the hostility and pr...

A recent decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has been lauded as a victory for art collectors. More accurat...

Is defacing a Banksy art or vandalism? Well, from the US point of view, it is certainly a crime worthy of punishment from anywhere between...

Mark Rothko, Untitled (1961) At least four years of legal wranglings over the sale of this Mark Rothko painting appear to have come to ...

The government has announced that it will extend the VAT refund scheme which helps to support museums and galleries in providing free acce...