Art and Artifice

This is a reminder to our Seattle-area readers that the annual Art Law Institute presented by Washington Lawyers for the Arts will be...

The trustees of the Kunstmuseum Bern announced yesterday that the museum has decided to accept the bequest of Cornelius Gurlitt's art c...

Here's some information concerning a fascinating event which is coming up early next month, and which Art & Artifice blogger Liz Eme...

On November 12, 2014 Senator Patrick Leahy proposed Bill 2919 which would amend the Copyright Act to insure that all married couples are...

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...