Our Legal Issues In Museum Administration

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New Takes on Old Fakes

Museums should embrace the fakes in their collections. This summer in London, the National Gallery pieced together a fantastic exhibition, "Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and...
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MCA Denver’s Approach to the Problem of Orphan Works

Last fall, this blog reported on a panel about the problem of Orphan Works. The Panel, "Lost & Found: A Practical Look at Orphan Works",...
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Metropolitan and Egypt Announce Initiative to Recognize Egypt’s Title to Objects from Tut’s Tomb

"Thomas P. Campbell, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of...
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MFA to keep Kokoschka Painting

The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued its decision in the case determining ownership of Oskar Kokoschka’s painting Two Nudes (Lovers)...
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One Point for Deaccessioning Regulation Advocates

Recently, the Blanden Memorial Art Museum (Fort Dodge, Iowa) deaccessioned many works in an auction. The lack of transparency in the process and the shockingly...
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The Case Against a Museum

"The Art of the Steal", Dir. Don Argott, 2009 On Wednesday night the Art Law Society took a trip to see "The Art of the...
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Guggenheim Settles With Malevich Heirs

An untitled painting by Kazimir Malevich. The foundation that runs the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum said on Monday that it had reached an agreement with...
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Museums Take Pro Sports Gambling to the Next Level

A new kind of transaction to spice up the art market: "A tale in 13 tweets: the head honchos of the New Orleans Museum of...
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Nazi Looted Paintings Discovered at Southern Methodist University

Monuments Men Foundation Announces that Famous Murillo Paintings Stolen from Rothschild Family in Paris, Later Discovered by the Monuments Men during World War II, have...
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To Return or not to Return? Are Museums Really at Crossroads on Nazi-era Claims?

It is true that some museums chose to use technical defenses to avoid returning art works in their holdings that were stolen by the Nazis...
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