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ISIS Cultural Destruction: In Brief

By Mia Tomijima War and political takeovers define history, but are also often responsible for erasing it. The devastating effects of these feuds result in...
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Gold or Not? Scenery or Forgery? Art Reproductions Created for Film

by Mia Tomijima “Woman in Gold” (2015)adapts for the big screen the story of Maria Altmann (1916-2011) and her legal battle against the Government of Austria to...
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Wish You Were Here: Sotheby’s Institute of Art (CA) Conference, January 2015

by Jessica Newman (Source) On January 30 and 31, the Sotheby’s Institute of Art gathered attorneys and art professionals together in Los Angeles, California for...
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Restitution, Repatriation and Return: When Objects Go Back; (PART 1 of 5) Restitution of Stolen Cultural Objects

By Kevin P. Ray, first posted on Greenberg Traurig's art law blog Cultural Assets on February 25, 2015. An important and frequently misunderstood development in the law...
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Je Suis Public Domain

by Dennis C. Abrams On January 7th in Paris, an Islamist terror attack at the headquarters of the satirical magazine Charlie  Hebdo resulted in the...
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Case Review: Red Rothko Suit, a.k.a. Hoffman v. L&M Arts (TX)

By Chris Michaels, Esq. A private art sale involving a Rothko painting is the subject of a bitter lawsuit in the Northern District of Texas....
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Of Koons, Twombly, Perelman and Gagosian: Lessons to be Learned

By Jessica M. Curley (Part I) and Daniel Kokhba (Part II) Part I: Places, lights, action The lack of transparency in the art world can...
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Viability and Feasibility: How much is an Art Museum Worth?

By Elizabeth Lash, Esq. Who can say how much a piece of artwork is worth?  Who owns public art?  In one particular case, that of...
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Boston Raphael: Legal Art History

By Belinda Rathbone In 1969, my father, Perry T. Rathbone, then Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (the “MFA” or the “Museum”), bought...
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The Copyright Office’s Recent Fee Changes

By Elena Kravtsoff, Esq. For the first time since August 1, 2009, the U.S. Copyright Office instituted a number of fee changes that took effect...
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Why Ronald Lauder Is Right About Nazi-Looted Art in Museums

*From the Editors: The following article  first appeared on ArtNet. It is a response to two recent articles, an editorial authored by Ronald S. Lauder, a...
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Attention all Art Buyers – Caveat Emptor and then Emptor some more!

by Hanoch Sheps, Esq. Caveat Emptor (Latin for “let the buyer beware”) could quite possibly be the understatement of the century, at least it appears...
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