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Et tu, Poland?! Poland seeks return of 18 paintings taken by the Soviet Red Army in 1945

'Madonna and Child' by Lucas Cranach the Elder, sought by Poland for recovery from the Pushkin Museum. The Russian Federation should beware all Ides. This...
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Mayan Temple Destroyed

It was reported that on May 13th, 2013 archaeologists and government officials in Belize discovered that the Nohmul complex site was destroyed.  It was one...
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Attorney’s Appeal for Intervention Against Museums Addicted to Nazi Looted Art

In an article with a cheeky title and a noble purpose, Raymond J. Dowd, Partner with Dunnington Bartholow & Miller LLP argues that the procedural...
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NPR Story on the Field Museum’s Financial Crisis Incites Sharp Comments from Listeners

The Field Museum is encyclopedic, with more than 20 million biological and geological specimens and cultural objects. On May 6th, NPR's Morning Edition aired a...
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Dispute over the Estate of Jack Tanzer Centers on Caravaggio Authentication

By Center for Art Law The battle rages on over the estate of Jack Tanzer and the authenticity of a painting that the now-deceased Upper...
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Fair Use Fails Mr. Brainwash: Judicial Stance on Infringement and Appropriation Art Swings the Other Way

Hot on the heels of appropriation artist Richard Prince's victory in the Second Circuit (covered here two weeks ago), a Los Angeles federal court has returned a less...
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UPDATE: Repatriation of Metropolitan Museum’s Cambodian Art

Following a visit to Cambodia six weeks ago by its General Counsel, Sharon Cott, and its Southeast Asian Curator, John Guy, the Metropolitan Museum of...
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Guardianship of Zao Wou-ki’s Estate in Dispute

Chinese-born, French-naturalized artist Zao Wou-ki died on April 9 2013 in Switzerland. Less than one months later, his family members, his third wife Françoise Marquet and...
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Liquidating Assets When the Asset is an Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol, Portrait of Dolly Parton, from Christie's May 2012 Post-War and Contemporary Art Morning Session.  The provenance lists that the Andy Warhol Foundation sold...
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Part II: UNESCO Forced to Consider Street Art as Cultural Heritage

By Center for Art Law. On March 27th, four sections of the East Side Gallery were destroyed to make way for a high-end construction project. ...
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Obituary: Edward De Grazia, Attorney Who Defended “Morally Defiant Artists”

I do have a cause, thought, it is obscenity. I'm for it! Tom Lehrer, "Smut" (1965)   Lysistrata by Aristophanes, Candide by Voltair, Tom Sawyer by Mark...
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Ownership of a Mahler Photograph in Dispute

The first one she married was Mahler, Whose buddies all knew him as Gustav. And each time he saw her he'd holler: "Ach, that is...
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