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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) By Vivianne Diaz On November 19, 2025, collector Charles C. Cahn Jr. sued Sotheby’s in the Supreme Court...
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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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Cooling Off or Cutting Off? The UK Consumer Act 2024 and Future of Charitable Memberships

By Lauren Stein With reduction of government funding to the arts being an perennial issue, museums and other institutions rely on subscriptions for building up...
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On Duty of Auction Houses to Authenticate

By Vivianne Diaz The art market’s existence rests on authentication.[1] “[T]he market for artworks and artifacts only functions if these objects have a proper attribution...
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Power of “x”: Legal Questions and Possibilities of Artist x Brand Collaborations

A Louis Vuitton bag with Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa; an Alexander McQueen x Damien Hirst scarf collection; an Elsa Schiaparelli dress featuring Salvador Dalí’s lobster motif. By Natalie...
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Can AI Tell the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth? The Courts Aren’t Sure

By Rebecca Bennett As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes an increasingly ubiquitous presence across virtually every industry, legal systems are forced to grapple with the implications...
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Book Review: “All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art” (2024)

By Guest Writer All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art by Orlando Whitfield is a compelling and thoroughly engaging recollection of...
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Don’t Blame Me: How the Art Market Battles Forgeries

By Shaila Gray In May of 2025, federal prosecutors revealed that 77-yers old Pennsylvania resident Carter Reese, once known for being Taylor Swift’s former neighbor,...
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