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WYWH: “Art Lawyering Bootcamp: Copyright Law”

  [caption id="attachment_77515" align="alignright" width="175"] Kamee Payton (Judith Bresler Fellow 2025-2026) is leading the Bootcamp training.[/caption] By Alexandra Kharchenko On February 4, 2026, the Center...
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No Industry Seems Untouched by the AI Avalanche – Where Does AI Stand With ADR? Or Better Asked, Where Does ADR Stand With AI?

Screenshot from AAA AI Arbitrator Website By Marina Rastorfer Most discourses, no matter the field of interest, tend to have a catchphrase or a keyword...
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Regulation Without Legislation: Combatting Money Laundering in the U.S. Art Market

By William Yuen Yee Critics describe the art market as the “largest, legal unregulated industry” in the United States.[1] Lawmakers have repeatedly introduced federal legislation...
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Legacy Over Licensing: How Artist Estates and Museums Are Redefining Control in the Digital Age

Robert Rauschenberg, Susan—Central Park N.Y.C. (II) (1951) By Josie Goettel When an artist passes, their estate is tasked with two seemingly conflicting tasks: to protect...
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Flemish Government’s Plan to Dismantle M HKA’s Collection in the Name of Centralization of Art

Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA) By Alexandra Kharchenko On October 6, 2025, the Flemish Government announced plans to transform the Museum of Contemporary...
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When Imitation is Not Flattery: Art Fakes, Forgeries, and the Market They Fool

Han van Meegeren, The Supper at Emmaus (1937) By Lauren Stein In 2014, the Swiss Fine Art Expert Institute (FAEI) estimated that up to 50%...
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Not so Sublime: What the Cancellation of Sherald’s Retrospective Reveals About Curatorial Autonomy

Presidential Portraits Unveiled Feb. 12, 2018 and a Past Exhibition that Never Was. By Rebecca Bennett Nearly seven years in the making, mid-career retrospective of...
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Let’s Go, the Bayeux Tapestry: Legal Implications of Temporary Loan

Credit: Bayeux Museum By Josie Goettel A Rare Journey In a historic decision, the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, has authorized a loan of the...
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The Digital Fade: NFTs and the Future of Blockchain Art

By Shaila Gray In September of 2025, auction house Christie’s announced that they would be closing their digital art department after 3 years of operation....
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The Modigliani Forgery Epidemic Strikes Again?

Amedeo Modigliani, Portrait of Leopold Zborowski (1917) (fragment) By Vivianne Diaz On November 19, 2025, collector Charles C. Cahn Jr. sued Sotheby’s in the Supreme...
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Getting over Cash: A Guide to Noncash Charitable Donations

By Kamée Payton Charitable donations are integral to sustaining and expanding nonprofits, arts organizations, and cultural heritage institutions. With government funding decreasing and operational costs...
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Against the Illusion: The Limits of Digital Repatriation in Restitution Debates

By Afroditi Karatagli Museums and cultural institutions increasingly use the language of digital repatriation[1] - the idea that returning digital surrogates of cultural heritage objects...
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