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Book Review: “Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock” (2018)

By Lauren Stein Amy Werbel's Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock offers a compelling portrait...
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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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Book Review: Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger (2012) by Ken Perenyi

By Caitlin O’Hare Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger is a first-hand account by Ken Perenyi, who built a lucrative career...
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Book Review: “Art & Crime” (2022) by Stefan Koldenhoff & Tobias Timm, eng. ed.

By Anna Bashlakova Stefan Koldenhoff and Tobias Timm's book Kunst und Verbrechen came out in 2020. Translated and published in English in 2022 as "Art...
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Book Review: “Museum Administration: Law and Practice” by Walter Lehmann (2022)

By Helen Boone According to Walter Lehmann, out of the 35,000 museums in the United States, only 50 maintain in-house counsel.[1] For those institutions without...
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Book Review: “Posthumous Art, Law and the Art Market,” Sharon Hecker and Peter J. Karol, eds. (2022)

By Viola Koenz The first impression after picking up the book Posthumous Art, Law and the Art Market, edited by Sharon Hecker and Peter J....
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Book Review: The Art Collecting Legal Handbook, Bruno W. Boesch And Massimo Sterpi, eds. (3rd ed., 2023)

By Briana Pierre In 2023, two of the leading art attorneys and scholars Bruno W. Boesch (Switzerland) and Massimo Sterpi (Italy) revised and released the...
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Book Review: “Lost Art: The Art Loss Register Casebook Vol I” (2021) by Anja Shortland

By Caitlin O’Hare For those interested in stolen artworks and the enormous effort involved to retrieve them, you’ll find yourself instantly captivated, mesmerized, and ultimately...
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Book Review: “The Whole Picture: The Colonial Story of the Art in Our Museums & Why We Need to Talk About It” (2020) by Alice Procter

By Amber Lee In her book The Whole Picture: The Colonial Story of the Art in Our Museums & Why We Need to Talk About...
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Art Law Journals

Art Antiquity and Law (U.K.) A quarterly, which starting in 1996, was designed for all who value the cultural and historical environment. “The principal aim...
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Book Review: “Females in the Frame: Women, Art, and Crime” (2019) by Penelope Jackson

By Yuchen Xie. “I know of no notable female forgers in the history of forgery.” Noah Charney, The Art of Forgery: The Minds, Motives and...
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Book Review: “A Philosophy Guide to Street Art and the Law” (2018)

By Lucy Siegel. In his recent publication, A Philosophy Guide to Street Art and the Law (Brill Research Perspectives, 2018), philosophy and art theory professor...
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