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POPS Art! David L. Johnson’s “Rule” and the Legal Landscape of New York’s Privately Owned Public Spaces

Left: Seagram Building in Manhattan, New York, Ryan Ng, 2025 Right: Plaza at 375 Park Avenue Rules of Conduct Sign, Sam Brady-Myerov, 2026 By Sam...
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What Do Artists Give Up in Museums?

Artworks with their wall texts at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (credit: pxhere) By Priya Shah What does an artist give up in...
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Inside the Norval Morrisseau Forgery Ring

Norval Morrisseau, Observations of the Astral World (c. 1994), acrylic on canvas, 236 x 514 cm, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa By Victoria Cook Art...
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From National Treasure to Asset Class: The Gelman Collection’s Case

Diego Rivera, Portrait of Natasha Gelman, 1943 By Paula Gutierrez de Villasante The controversy surrounding one of the most historically significant and valuable collections of...
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Selling America’s Sistine Chapel: The Trump Administration’s Effort to Sell Federal Buildings and the Artworks Trapped Inside

Seymour Fogel, Wealth of the Nation, 1942 (Photograph by Carol M. Highsmith, 2011) By Sam Brady-Myerov As United States of America celebrate the 250th anniversary...
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Beautification Out of the (American Flag) Blue: The Lawsuit That Attempted to Halt the Reflecting Pool Makeover

The Reflecting Pool with its gray basin in 2006. (Image: Hu Totya, Sept. 18, 2026, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0) By Cara Ianuale Since...
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Art Law at America 250: Gilbert Stuart’s Art Battles and National Imagination

Gilbert Stuart, George Washington (The Athenaeum Portrait) (painting 1796) with a dollar bill, photographed by Hannah Gadway (2023). Copies of the painting held by National...
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A Global Fight: Dupes, Counterfeits, & Artists

About the Image: Thomas Rowlandson, "High Fun for John Bull, or the Republicans Put to their Last Shift" (November 12, 1798) By KimberMarie Faircloth People...
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WYWH: 2026 CPAL Conference on Preserving Artists’ Legacies (Day 2 of 3)

By Ian Silverstein On June 2, Day 2 of the Center for the Preservation of Artists’ Legacies (‘CPAL’) conference on preserving artist legacies hosted in...
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“Authentic” Forgeries: Chang Dai-chien and Chinese Copies

Left: Chang Dai-chien, Four Geese attributed to Bada Shanren, hanging scroll; ink on paper Right: Zhu Da (Bada Shanren), Four Geese, hanging scroll; ink on...
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Collaboration in Cultural Heritage: Greater Questions of Digital Reconstructions

March 22, 2014, from NYT March 27, 2016, released by Syrian Arab News Agency By Jacqueline Koutrodimos-Lewis The process of documenting and preserving cultural heritage...
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Who Owns Hollywood’s Past? 

By Center for Art Law Team Maybe it’s you?  This story does not begin with: “It was the kind of Saturday morning that makes Zurich...
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