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Social Media: A Smuggler’s Tool For Looted Antiquities

By Lucy Siegel. Social media allows us to connect in a matter of seconds with people all over the world, ranging from fan pages discussing...
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Case Review: Is There HOPE for the Estate of Robert Indiana?

By Taylor Barje. Lawsuit I: Morgan Art Foundation Ltd. v. McKenzie et al., No. 1:18-cv-04438 (S.D.N.Y. filed on May 18, 2018).Lawsuit II: Morgan Art Foundation...
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An Excursion into the Antiquities’ Law of India

By Atreya Mathur India’s rich cultural legacy is embodied in artworks throughout the country. Whether it is a bronze statue of a goddess, an engraved...
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Case Review: Allen v. Cooper (2020)

By Alexa Sussmane Joseph Nicholls, “Capt. Teach alias Black-Beard” (1736), print engraved by J. Basire and reproduced in D. Defoe, A General History of the...
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Case Review: Republic of Turkey v. Christie’s

By David Jenkins. In recent years, the Republic of Turkey has displayed a dedication to preserving and repatriating its cultural artifacts and antiquities to be...
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Market-Ready: Concerns in Authentication and Appraisal of Russian Art

By Yulianna Vertinskaya In January 2020, art collectors Igor and Olga Toporovski were arrested in Belgium on suspicion of handling stolen goods, fraud, and money...
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Case Review of the 5Pointz Appeal: Castillo et al. v. G&M Realty L.P. (2020)

By Louise Carron. February 20, 2020 will be known in legal art history as the day that street art was affirmed as “a major category...
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Book Review: “Hitler’s Last Hostages” (2019)

By Madhulika Murali. What do art and fascism have in common? More than one might think, as Mary M. Lane details in her thorough exploration...
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Book Review: “Art and Modern Copyright” (2018)

By Sophie Chung. Pulitzer-winning novelist Pearl S. Buck once said, “If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.” Dr. Elena Cooper’s new...
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Good Art, Ugly Divorce

By Sophie Chung. In 2019, billionaire Harry Macklowe’s “ugly divorce” put the spotlight on his $700 million art collection and raised the issue of dividing...
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Book Review: “Females in the Frame: Women, Art, and Crime” (2019)

By Yuchen Xie. “I know of no notable female forgers in the history of forgery.” Noah Charney, The Art of Forgery: The Minds, Motives and...
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Art and Restorative Justice: Transformative Healing Through Expression

By Madhulika Murali As of 2019, 5% of the world’s population resides in the territory of the United States.[1] However, the US prison population makes...
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