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Case Review in Brief: Art Historian Found Liable for Incorrect Authentication (2013)

By Center for Art Law Werner Spies, former director of the Pompidou Center and renowned Max Ernst expert, was found liable for an incorrect authentication...
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New York District Court Upholds Dreier Victim’s Right to $33 Million Art Collection

By Ariel Greenberg On May 11, 2009, Marc Dreier--former high profile lawyer turned phony promissory note purveyor at the height of the financial crisis--pled guilty...
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Update: California Court Dismisses Suit Against Sotheby’s for Non-Disclosure of Nazi Connection

By Dan Arnheim The Art Newspaper reports that a California federal court this week dismissed a lawsuit brought by a collector against Sotheby's for failing...
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Tradition of Art Censorship in Russia is Alive and Well

Vasilii Slonov. Image from Siburbia.ru "Welcome! Sochi 2014" [Not]. Vasilii Slonov thought he got his 15 minutes of fame when his vivid posters commenting on...
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Honghe Hani Rice Terraces Added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List

  China's Honghe Hani Rice Terraces were among the 18 sites added to UNESCO's World Heritage List a week ago, and local authorities in China...
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Is Cariou v. Prince Headed to the Supreme Court?

Photographer Patrick Cariou is expected to file an appeal with the Supreme Court within the next three months in the next installment of the closely...
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UPDATE: Warhol Foundation Wins $6.6 Million Insurance Payment After Six Years

The Andy Warhol Foundation and the Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company (PIIC) have reached a settlement favorable to the Foundation.  According to the Foundation's press release, the PIIC...
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Picasso Si, Picasso La: Pending Legal Actions Involving Two Picasso Paintings

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), man of many talents, was arguably the most influential and versatile artist of the 20th. His works are perennially coveted and ubiquitous. Everybody who is anybody had,...
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Money, Money, Money, Not So Funny in Sicily

Mozia Charioteer, 470-460 BC, now on display at the J. Getty Museum Sicilian are crying foul to the J. Paul Getty and Cleveland Museum exhibition...
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Six Syrian Sites Added to UNESCO’s List of World Heritage in Danger

The World Heritage Committee has placed six sites in Syria on the UNESCO's List of World Heritage in Danger in an effort to draw attention...
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Police Confiscate Pornographic Justin Bieber Collage in Australia

Paul Yore, Are End of the World, 2013 installation at the Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts. The circumstances of Brooklyn v. NYC are revisited once again in Australia.  The police...
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Fact and Fraud: Two Forgery Rings Discovered in France and Germany

Wassily Kandinsky's Blauer Kreis No. 2. This week two forgery rings were discovered in France and Germany.  Both cases required long investigations and police resources--...
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