Our Legal Issues In Museum Administration

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MoMA Down Under

The Museum of Modern Art in New York [MoMA] and the Art Gallery of Western Australia [AGWA] have recently entered into a unique agreement. AGWA...
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Get Back: Arbitration Award Threatens Art Loans

What does a blood plasma business have to do with art law? Well, after a 2008 Czech arbitration court ruling on the verge of enforcement...
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Solomonic Decision In Labor Disputes at the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Site

"If we build, it they will come," is a motto of the Abu Dhabi and Dubai developers. One of the ambitious projects in the United...
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2011 Legal Issues in Museums Conference

The annual conference on legal problems in museum administration took place on March 22-24, 2011. It was organized by the American Law Institute-American Bar Association...
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James Cuno at the Getty

Museums are treasure chests full of artifacts with questionable histories. Who is the rightful owner of these precious objects - the museums that have acted...
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Those on the Market for a Graduation Gift Nota Bene — Leopold Museum is to sell a Schiele

On May 31, 2011, Cardozo will graduate its 33rd class of bright-eyed and bushy-tailed lawyers-in-the-making. One of these soon-to-be-grads once wrote an admission essay declaring...
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Klimt Stolen by Gestapo Returned to Victims’ Heir

Salzburg's Museum of Modern Art is returning a famous Klimt painting stolen by the Gestapo in 1941. According to the provincial government, Litzlberg on the...
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Gagosian Takes on Avedon

Gagosian Gallery is to become the exclusive, worldwide representative of the Avedon Foundation. Richard Avedon, who passed away in 2004, has been hailed as one...
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How could one be "causing the theft of" a painting?

On April 21, 2011, an Egyptian court sentenced five state officials, including Mohsen Shaalan, former head of the state's fine arts department, to serve time in...
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Feeling Generous: Who Will Return Goudstikker Paintings?

On March 28, 2011, The J. Paul Getty Museum announced that it would deaccession Landscape with Cotttage and Figures, an old master painting by Peter...
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The UCL Panopticon and Protests: A lack of arts funding in the UK?

University College London [UCL] has recently dropped what The Art Newspaper has called "one of the UK's most ambitious university museum projects" due to a...
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A Museum’s Online Image Library

Carol Vogel at the New York Times has reported that the Los Angeles County Museum of Art [LACMA] will provide high-resolution images in its online...
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