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Artsy and Artnet Merger: Corporate Law 101

By Lena Rohde   The merging of notable art world resources Artnet and Artsy was officially announced by Artnet on April 15, 2026. The news...
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FBI Recovers 75 Paintings by Hanna “Kali” Weynerowska After 16-Year Search

FBI Recovers 75 Paintings by Hanna “Kali” Weynerowska After 16-Year Search In April 2014, the FBI announced the recovery of 75 paintings by Polish artist...
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Ten Years Ago and On: Looted Antiquities Stashed in Geneva Freeport Returned to Italy

(Image: Carabinieri Patrimonio Culturale via NYTimes) Ten years ago, in March of 2016, hundreds of looted artifacts handled by Robin Symes, disgraced London dealer with...
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The Verdict on the Stolen Banksy

Banksy’s Balloon Girl By Cara Ianuale In November of 2025, a judge at London’s Kingston Crown Court sentenced 48-year-old Larry Fraser to thirteen months in...
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Jasper Johns Awarded Presidential Medal of Honor

Jasper Johns received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, on February 15, 2010. The famous artist was among 14 individuals who...
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The Statute of Limitations Invoked to Dismiss Copyright Claims (Source: NYSBA EASL Blog)

Joel L. Hecker, counsel for Gideon Lewin, in the ongoing case of Gideon Lewin v. The Richard Avedon Foundation (2015) offers some comments on the...
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Gurlitt Saga Continues: U-Turn or Rotary?

By Steffanie E. Keim, Esq.  Children should not be punished for the mistakes of their parents. Sometimes it gets difficult to determine where mistakes of...
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Photographs and Richard Prince: The Gifts that Keep on Giving

By Irina Tarsis, Esq. In truth... in art, there are few, if any, things , which in an abstract sense, are strictly new and original...
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Stalled Disbursement of Wally Settlement

By Lesley Sotolongo After a 13-year legal battle that seemed to have ended in 2011, Egon Schiele’s 1912 Portrait of Wally remains embroiled in disputes. By...
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Ryan O’Neal Wins Warhol’s Farrah Fawcett Portrait

[caption id="attachment_4155" align="alignright" width="300"] Andy Warhol's portrait of Farrah Fawcett (1980).[/caption] By Mary Elizabeth Williams Last month a jury awarded title of a disputed Andy...
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Jasper Johns Testifies, Foundry Owner Pleads Guilty to Fraud

On Monday, January 27, 2014, former foundry owner Brian Ramnarine has admitted to lying about the authenticity of thirteen sculptures and attempting to sell forgeries...
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Kapoor’s Assistant Pleads Guilty to Possession of Illicit Antiquities

By Angelea Selleck In late November 2013, Aaron Freedman pled guilty in New York Supreme Court to one count of criminal conspiracy and five counts...
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