Our Art Law History

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‘Chasing Aphrodite’ Co-Authors Felch and Frammolino to Receive 2011 SAFE Beacon Award

New York, NY (October 12, 2011) – SAFE/Saving Antiquities for Everyone, a New York City-based non-profit, will host a dinner honoring the recipients of the...
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Looting of Cultural Heritage Sites Remains a Problem in Latin America

  How far has Western civilization come since the colonization of the Americas? Like the archeologists and conquistadors that came before them, gangs of looters...
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Museum Wants to Return Objects, How Refreshing

In the late 19th and early 20th century, Minor C. Keith, a railroad magnate and a founder of the United Fruit Company exported thousands of...
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For Better or Worse: Yale and Peru Commit to the Return of Thousands of Incan Artifacts

On Feb. 11, 2011, Yale University signed an agreement to send back to Peru thousands of Incan artifacts, ceramic pieces, animal and human bones, and...
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Protecting Egypt’s Cultural Heritage

The recent political upheaval in Egypt is not without effect on the country’s cultural property. Reports of theft, vandalism, and looting have resulted in calls...
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Term of Art: Art for Tax Purposes (Part 1)

This story appeared in The Cardozo Jurist (February 2011): When you look at a Flavin creation, do you see a “light installation” or light fixtures...
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Digitizing Europe’s Cultural Heritage

The European Commission launched Europeana in 2008, in order to create a digital archive of cultural materials. Jennifer Baker reports that Europeana currently offers free...
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That’s cool: ICE returns archival materials to the Russian Federation

  In a ceremony at the Russian Embassy on December 3, 2010, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton presented 21 historical documents...
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As I sit studying: Art is getting its own “stock exchange”

  For those who have been in seclusion and oblivious, the art market rebounded and many new outlets have been springing about to help art...
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Underground Art

A large-scale exhibition has been mounted, illegally, under the streets of New York City in an old, unfinished subway station. Anyone who is caught defacing...
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Performance Art on Trial

In 1964, Joseph Beuys staged “Das Schweigen von Marcel Duchamp wird überbewertete” (The Silence of Marcel Duchamp is Overrated) in a live television broadcast. The...
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Ratification by Belgium to the Second Protocol

Ratification by Belgium to the Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict...
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