Our Legal Issues In Museum Administration

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Attorney’s Appeal for Intervention Against Museums Addicted to Nazi Looted Art

In an article with a cheeky title and a noble purpose, Raymond J. Dowd, Partner with Dunnington Bartholow & Miller LLP argues that the procedural...
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Pickpocketing at the Louvre Forces the Museum to Close After Guards Walkout

The Louvre closed its doors on April 10th after gallery guards staged a walkout in protest to an increase in pickpocketing and violence. On April...
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Part I: Who Owns Street Art?

By Center for Art Law. The reference to James Cuno's Who Owns Antiquity in the title of this article is not flippant.  The rhetoric and...
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Is the Metropolitan Museum Free?

There are currently two lawsuits against the Metropolitan Museum of Art, both demanding an injunction and signs that clearly state the ticket price is a...
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Will the AAMD’s Newly Updated Guidelines Lead to Substantial Change in Museum Collecting Practices?

In late January, the Association of Art Museum Directors (the AAMD) announced that it was publishing a revision to its "Guidelines on the Acquisition of...
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Sotheby’s Challenged in London Court over Caravaggio Attribution

Sotheby's Online Record. In December 2006, Lancelot William Thwaytes, decedent of Surgeon Captain W.G. Thwaytes*, consigned an artwork to auction at Sotheby's London. Entitled "The Cardsharps," it...
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Delacroix’s "Liberty Leading the People" Vandalized and Restored One Day Later

Delacroix's "Liberty Leading the People" (1830) at the Le Louvre-Lens. Eugene Delacroix's masterwork, "Liberty Leading the People" (1830), was defaced on February 7th at the...
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The Journey of Columbia University’s Rembrandt

Rembrandt, "Portrait of a Man with Arms Akimbo," 1658. The Otto Naumann Limited gallery describes Rembrandt's "Portrait of a Man with Akimbo" exquisitely on their...
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Three Suspects Arrested in Relation to the Kunsthal Museum Theft, Yet Paintings Remain MIA

Empty wall space where Matisse's "La Liseuse en Blanc et Jaune" once hung in the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam. Source: The Star. On January 22,...
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Getty’s Efforts to Verify Ownership x 45,000

Museums loath to admit that some objects that they hold have dubious provenance or questionable title. From time to time, it is inevitable that one...
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Case Review: Konowaloff v. Metropolitan Museum of Art (Holding: Met Can Keep Cézanne)

By Irina Tarsis On December 18, 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the 2011 decision dismissing the lawsuit of Pierre...
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UPDATE: Mark Rothko Vandal Sentenced

Vladimir Umanets, also known as Wlodzimierz Umaniec, defacedMark Rothko's Black on Maroon at the Tate Modern October 7, 2012. Judge Roger Chapple, of the Inner London...
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