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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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Creative Financing Ideas: A Potential Sale of the Met Opera’s Chagalls

By Halle O'Hern In January 2026, the Metropolitan Opera announced it may sell its two Marc Chagall murals, The Sources of Music and The Triumphs...
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The Dorville Case: A Judicial Turn Facilitating the Restitution of Artworks Acquired During the French Occupation

Edouard Vuillard, Fleurs en Pot, 1906 By Alexandra Kharchenko In November 2025, the Cour de Cassation (France's supreme court for judicial matters) rendered a positive...
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Endowments for the Arts: Shrinking Legal and Economic Landscape of Federal Arts Funding

By Lauren Stein Introduction For decades, public funding for the arts has been hotly contested.[1] The National Endowments for the Arts (NEA), established in 1965...
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Canada pledges an artist’s resale royalty—can the United States follow “suite”?

The Enchanted Owl, 1960 courtesy of FirstArts.ca By Donyea James Canada may join the company of over eighty countries that incorporate an artist resale royalty...
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Abraham and Isaac: Sculptures returned home after Spanish Supreme Court decision

Abraham and Isaac, attributed to Maestro Mateo, Museo do Pobo Galego By Lucas Güimil Valdés Introduction In a recent ruling, 18 June 2025[1], the Supreme...
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Changes in U.S. and U.K. Restitution Laws are Afoot, Museums are Worried, Claimants are Cautiously Optimistic, ADR Practitioners are Attentive – Where Does This Leave us?

Screenshots from The Institute of Art & Law and Congress.Gov, respectively By Marina Rastorfer [caption id="attachment_77940" align="alignleft" width="283"] Nazi-era Looted Art Restitution in the News.[/caption]...
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The End of the Mask: Banksy, Anonymity, and What We Just Lost

Digital creation by Nikoleta-Georgia Vlachaki By Afroditi Karatagli Anonymity as Condition, Not Absence The Reuters investigation into Banksy’s identity was published on March 13th, and...
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Case Review: Bennigson v. Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

Picasso, Woman Ironing, 1904, Guggenheim, New York By Lauren Stein and Donyea James On December 16, 2016, the outgoing president Barack Obama signed into law...
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Are Muralists Artists? Legally, It Varies

Credit: Diego Rivera, Still Life and Blossoming Almond Trees, California, available at Wikimedia Commons By Walker Schulte Schneider Murals, and the artists who paint them,...
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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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