Our Legal Issues In Museum Administration

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Dealer Seeks Return of Plumed Artifacts

A five-year investigation into artifacts dealer Christopher Kortlander's museum resulted in a raid and allegations that he was dealing in fraudulent artifacts and feathers in...
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A Museum "Tax" in Boston?

The Mayor of Boston, Thomas Menino, has announced plans for a new Payment in Lieu of Taxes scheme ("PILOT"). Under the scheme, non-profit organizations are...
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Intl Law Gift: Israeli museum refuses to return WWII spoils

Dutch News reported that the Israel Museum in Jerusalem is refusing to return a Tora cover stolen by the Nazis during World War II to...
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Libya’s antiquities department recovers and displays looted Roman antiquities

Arab Spring has not been too gentle to cultural heritage. Not surprising, some artifacts have been stolen in the aftermath of Libyan civil war. It...
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Nazi-Looted Art in a Small Museum

The Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science in Tallahassee, Florida has been feeling the effects of a poor economy like many other arts institutions....
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The Friends of the Barnes: A Last-Ditch Effort Denied

As this blog reported in September, the Friends of the Barnes made a last-ditch effort to stop the Barnes Collection from moving to a new...
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What To Do When Museums Face Tough Times: The American Folk Art Museum

Disaster has been averted for the American Folk Art Museum. The fate of the fifty-year-old institution has looked bleak since last spring. Word of its...
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The New Barnes to Open on May 19, 2012

The Barnes Foundation is expecting to open its new doors in the new museum on May 19, 2011 regardless of the fact that there is...
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Art Terrorized in DC, Encore

Who: Susan Burns -- Repeat Offender When: August 2011 What: Arrested slamming Henri Matisse's painting against a wall at Washington's National Gallery of Art At...
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No One is Innocent but the Cow, or The Tale of a Callous Son

Meet Cowless Met In 2009, Monaco-based British collector Robert Wylde purchased Mark Tansey's "The Innocent Eye Test" for $2.5 million. Little did he know that...
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Google Goggles & Getty

The team behind Google Goggles has partnered with the Getty Museum to provide information on paintings from the permanent collection, and the project has the...
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Copyright Fees: another riot in Canada?

What if museums had to keep paying fees to display art that they have acquired and art that they have on loan? Canadian Artists’ Representation/Le...
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