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The Spoliation and Restitution of Jewish-owned Cultural Assets in Italy, 1938 to the Present
The report The Spoliation and Restitution of Jewish-owned Cultural Assets in Italy, 1938 to the Present (October 2026), authored by Bianca Gaudenzi and Katharina Hüls-Valenti, examines the confiscation, forced sale, and looting of Jewish-owned cultural property under Fascist and Nazi rule, as well as postwar restitution efforts. Drawing on historical research and archival sources, the study highlights the active role of Italian Fascist authorities in the dispossession of Jewish property and the considerable obstacles survivors and their heirs faced in seeking restitution. It also provides a comprehensive guide to relevant Italian archival holdings and assesses recent developments in provenance research and restitution. Despite some progress, the report identifies significant shortcomings, including the lack of systematic provenance research in Italian museums, inadequate restitution legislation, and the absence of an independent restitution commission.
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The Parisian Heist
Emma, a struggling American artist in Paris, thought she had left her dreams behind when she took a job cleaning for the city’s wealthy elite. Then she meets Stella Swanson, the widow of one of the most notorious art dealers in the business. The Swansons move in a world where billionaires, oligarchs, and heads of state pay fortunes for masterpieces. Drawn in by their dazzling wealth and the pull of a dangerously charming grandson, Emma becomes both a player and a pawn in a family battle to protect their empire and conceal its crimes.
In the late 1800s, the young widow Jo van Gogh inherits hundreds of paintings from her brother-in-law Vincent that the art world deems worthless. Determined to prove their genius, and to secure a future for herself and her young son, she becomes consumed by Vincent’s legacy. As her devotion deepens, a vanished painting and a thwarted love affair leave her unsure who she can trust and how much of herself she’s willing to lose in the process.
From glittering auction houses to the idyllic canals of Amsterdam and the grand museums of Paris, the lives of these two women converge as Emma uncovers the Swanson family’s darkest secrets and agrees to mastermind a daring heist inside the Musée d’Orsay. The stakes have never been higher, and these women refuse to be written out of history, no matter the cost.
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NextGen Collectors and the Art Market
An incisive survey from bestselling art-market commentator Georgina Adam of the changing landscape of art collecting as a younger generation of collectors disrupts the status quo. Drawing on new interviews with collectors and art-market specialists internationally, Adam examines how changes in collecting trends are being driven by generational shifts in the sources of wealth, as well as the changing tastes, different motivations and new modes of acquiring art of Millennial and Gen Z collectors compared to older generations. What does all this mean for the future of art collecting and of the art market?
This is the first book to focus on the tastes and buying patterns of a new group of dynamic and Influential collectors, most of them still under 50, who are shaping the art market today. This group is younger than previous generations of collectors, with much of their wealth being self-made. Many of them will also benefit in the coming decades from the Great Wealth Transfer, which could see in the region of $72 trillion pass to Gen Z and Millennials. Their art purchases may well be conducted online, via channels which cut out the traditional art-market institutions. They are also more likely than previous generations to be based outside the traditional art centres of the US and EU, with China and the Middle East both seeing a growth in young collectors. These trends are likely to have a profound impact on the ways in which art is bought and sold, as Georgina Adam describes with clarity and insight.
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Inherited Empire in East European Architectural Conservation: Appropriating Ottoman, Habsburg and Russian/Soviet Past
Rather than a mere technical matter, the restoration of built monuments is a process through which societies promote their vision of history and cultural identity. The reasons why many monuments survive to this day are to be found in the nineteenth century, when modern practices of heritage preservation began. This book addresses the emergence and practices of architectural conservation in the case of the heterogeneous, disputed, fragmented and controversial heritage of Eastern and Central Europe from ca. 1800 to 1990. Thirteen chapters, an introduction and an afterword, follow the transformation and preservation of monuments, many of which are little known internationally, and their present legacy, from Georgia to Estonia, from Dalmatia and Galicia to the Russian Far North. With a focus on regions within and around the former Habsburg, Ottoman, Russian and Soviet empires, the volume contributes to decolonising this field of historical research by investigating the imperial and post-imperial architectural legacies, including how they enforced social, racial or ethnic inequalities.
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Provenance Research for Mediterranean Antiquities: Methods and Resources
This practical volume is the first to gather resources specific to the provenance of Mediterranean antiquities in an accessible, comprehensive guidebook.
The first of its kind, this book is an accessible, comprehensive primer of methods and resources for researching the provenance of Mediterranean (Greek, Roman, and Etruscan) antiquities. In addition to outlining effective strategies for documentation and investigation, the volume features an annotated guide to key archives, databases, and twentieth-century dealers to facilitate a broad spectrum of research endeavors. Building upon a decade-long review of the Getty Museum’s antiquities collection, it draws together instructive case studies, legal perspectives, and practical experience to provide an efficient reference for museum professionals, scholars, collectors, and students. The authors aim to emphasize the need for diligent provenance research and to shorten the learning curve for such projects.
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Books Reviews
The Mendelsohn Case: Implications for Future Restitution
Case Review: Bennigson v. Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Case Review: The Modigliani Forgery Epidemic Strikes Again?
Perelman’s Art Damage Case Continued to Burn Through Court Last Week
Case Review Update: Thaler v. Perlmutter (2025)
Case Review: Hayden v. Koons (2025)
Case Review: Ravensburger v. Italian Ministry of Culture (LG Stuttgart, Judgment of 14.03.2024 – 17 O…
Case Review: Getty v. Italy (2024)
Case Review: Farmer-Paellmann v Smithsonian Inst.
Case Review: Kerson v. Vermont Law School, Inc.
Matters of Baldessari: Estate of the Artist Finds Itself on Both Sides of Litigation
Case Review: Hermès International v. Rothschild
“Shhhhhh”: Kat Von D and Tattoo Fan Art – Sedlik v. Von Drachenberg (2021)
Case Review: RF and Bulatov v. Tsvetkova and other charges against an artist
Appropriation or Art? Court Orders Richard Prince to Pay Damages in Highly Anticipated Copyright Lawsuit
AI and Artists’ IP: Exploring Copyright Infringement Allegations in Andersen v. Stability AI Ltd.
Diversity-Fraud: Accent Delight v. Sotheby’s
Case Review: Reif, et al. v. The Art Institute of Chicago (2023)
Case Review: Thaler v. Perlmutter (2023)
Case Review: The Barnes Foundation can now loan art (2023)
Case Review: Free Holdings v. McCoy and Sotheby’s (2023)
Protection of Cultural Icons: Implications of the Galleria dell’Accademia v. Edizioni Conde Nast Decision
Case Review: Yuga Labs, Inc. v. Ripps, et al., 2:22-cv-04355 (C.D. Cal. April 21, 2023)
Copyright Registration for AI Generated Works: Zarya of the Dawn and the Dawn of a New…
Langford and the Pandora Papers: The Flaws Uncovered in the Art World
Case Review: Roberts v. Richard Beavers Gallery et al (2022) – on Artistic Tradition and Copyright…
Case Review: The Prosecutor v. Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi
Degrees of Transformation: Andy Warhol’s 102 minutes of fame before the Supreme Court
Case Review: US v. Philbrick (2022)
Case Review: Art Works, Inc. v. Diana Al-Hadid
Appropriation Art on Trial: Oral Arguments before the Supreme Court in Warhol v. Goldsmith
Case Review: Cassirer et. al. v. Thyssen Bornemisza Collection Foundation (2022)
Legacy and Lawsuits: An Overview of the Robert Indiana Estate Court Battles
A Case of Forgeries at the Herbert Hoover
Case Review: Republic of Turkey v. Christie’s Inc. (2021)
Case Review: Lanier v. Harvard (2021)
Subhash Kapoor: A Decade in Review
Case Review: German Advisory Commission’s Recommendation in Rieger v. City of Cologne (2021)
Case Review: Distorted Image, Secret Dealings, and New York Artists Authorship Act (2020-2021)
A Blow to Pop Art: Case Review of Warhol v. Goldsmith (2021)
Case Review: Federal Republic of Germany v. Philipp (2021)
Oklahoma to France and Back Again? A Case of Split-Custody of Nazi-Looted Art
Case Review: Rock’n’Roll, Museums, and Copyright Law (2020)
Making a Case for the CASE Act
Case Review: A Last Laugh from Frans Hals (UK)
Case Review: Abbott Labs v. Feinberg (2020)
Case Review: René Gimpel’s Heirs Fight for Restitution by French Museums (2020)
Case Review: U.S. v. Righter (FL/CA, 2020)
Book Review: “A Philosophy Guide to Street Art and the Law” (2018)
Case Review: Meaders v. Helwaser (2020)
Case Review: Barnet et al v. Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Hellenic Republic (2020)
Remembering Modigliani: Italy’s Ongoing Battle against Forgery
Case Review: Is There HOPE for the Estate of Robert Indiana?
Case Review: Allen v. Cooper (2020)
Case Review: Republic of Turkey v. Christie’s
Case Review of the 5Pointz Appeal: Castillo et al. v. G&M Realty L.P. (2020)
Case Review: The Mayor Gallery v. Agnes Martin Catalogue Raisonné
Two for the Price of One: Recent US Legal Developments in Nazi-Looted Art
Case Review: Takeaways from Mary Boone’s Day in Court
Case Review: Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation
Case Review: de Csepel v. Republic of Hungary
Case Review: Warhol v. Goldsmith
Case Review: Droit de suite… not so sweet
Case Review: Sotheby’s v. Greece
May Flash: Basqui-what?
Around the Block Ruling in 5Pointz
Blockage Discounts and Artists’ Estates: The De Kooning Post-Mortem
Rights: Investigating and Prosecuting Kleptocracy in Malaysia
The Making of the Moral Rights Case: The Factual and Legal Background of the 5Pointz Trial
Case Review: Maestracci v. Helly Nahmad Gallery Inc. (2014)
Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow: Covenants Not to Compete Between Auction Houses
Suing Cargo Largo, Pak Mail and UPS in Florida for Art Theft
Case Preview: Andy Warhol Foundation v. Bugarin
Case Review: Christie’s v. Jombihis
Case Review: Rauschenberg Estate Saga of Trust and Fees Explained, Again
Case Review: Galin v. Kunitake Hamada (2015), or Legal Storm over “Ice Storm”
Case Review: Foster v. Svenson (2015)
Case Review: Rybolovlev v. Bouvier
Case Review: Red Rothko Suit, a.k.a. Hoffman v. L&M Arts (TX)
Rockwell-not Case Review: Knispel v. Gallery 63 Antiques
Case Review: David Toren v. Federal Republic of Germany and Free State of Bavaria – Task…
Rauschenberg Estate Saga of Trust and Fees Explained
Case Review: Crile v. Commission of Internal Revenue
Case Review: United States v. Twenty-Nine Pre-Columbian and Colonial Artifacts, From Peru
Case Review: Karlsson v. Mangan
Case Review: US v. Mask of Ka-Nefer-Nefer (8th Cir.)
Case Review: Frank Kolodny v. James Meyer, Fred Dorfman, and Dorfman Projects LLC (May 2014)
Case Review: Schoeps v. Free State of Bavaria (June. 2014)
Case Review: Scher v. Stendhal Gallery, Inc., et al.
Case Review: Caterbetti v. Bloomgarden, et al
Basquiat sightings, or Case Review: Heriveaux v. Christies, Inc.
Case Review: Bilinski v. the Keith Haring Foundation
Libel by Fiction: Greene v. Paramount Pictures Corporation
Case Review: Photographer v. Artist (2013)
Calder Estate Fraud Claim Dismissed: Judge Finds Allegations “An Incoherent Stew of Irrelevance and Innuendo”
Case Review: Meyer v. Bd. of Regents of the U. of Oklahoma, or How long will…
Case Preview: Lonny Marrow v. Jacob Javits Center, et al.
Lessons on Auction Houses from Sotheby’s and the Case of the Stolen Renoir
Small Win for Artists Fighting Against 5Pointz Demolition, But Will It Be Enough?
Case Review: Janney-Pace v. Metropolitan Fine Arts & Antiques
Wallspace LLC Sues Insurance Company for Damages Sustained During Sandy
A Knoedler Aftershock: Freedman sues for Defamation
Statkun v. Gasser and Grunert: Another VARA Claim on the Table in the Southern District of…
After a Protracted Battle, Los Angeles Takes Final Steps to Lifting Ban on Murals
Right to Privacy v. Freedom of Expression in Case of “Peeping Tom” Photographer
Case Review in Brief: Art Historian Found Liable for Incorrect Authentication (2013)
Is Cariou v. Prince Headed to the Supreme Court?
What’s in a name ‘Borghe$e’?
“What’s in a Name?” Peter Paul Biro v. Condé Nast for Defamation
Five Art Market Lessons from Recent Case Law
Appropriate Standards in Appropriation Art? Cariou v. Prince Decision Garners Relief but Fails to Provide Substantive…
In Sobel v. Eggleston, Limited Edition Is NO Limit to Subsequent Editions
Keith Haring Foundation v. Colored Thumb Corp.
“Pandorin’s Box”: Jenack v. Rabizadeh Threatens Anonymity of Sellers at Auction
Jasper Johns’ “Tantric Detail” Paintings Held Hostage and Subject of Suit
Case Review: Konowaloff v. Metropolitan Museum of Art (Holding: Met Can Keep Cézanne)
Regarding Flower in Murakami v. Boesky
Lagrange v. Knoedler — SETTLED
Case Review: the Seven-Year Saga of Bakalar v. Vavra Comes to an End
Perelman and Gagosian Countersue Over ‘Popeye’
The Velvet Underground v. The Andy Warhol Foundation — DISMISSED
Court of Appeals Reverses Lower Court’s Decision in Legal Battle Between Fashion Powerhouses
New York’s Southern District Court Rules that Artworks Consigned to Galleries May Be Reached By Creditors
CA District Court Finds State Resale Royalty Unconstitutional
The Mask, Egyptian Funerary and Known to Legally Disappear
Footnote: Supreme Court Declines Review of Black Swan Case
Marc Jancou Files $26 Million Suit Against Cady Nowland and Sotheby’s
The Kunstmuseum Basel and Malevich Heirs Settle
Warhol Foundation Urges Protection for Appropriation Art as Experts Debate
Nazi-Era Art Litigation: Orkin v Swiss Confederation
More About the Public Domain: Golan v Holder
Cariou v Prince: a continuing controversy
VLA fils an amicus brief in support of Kelley
Inspiration or Infringement: Gordon v McGinley
No One is Innocent but the Cow, or The Tale of a Callous Son
"Phony And Overvalued Russian Art" Impossible but Caveat Emptor
Supreme Court Nonplussed by Claimant Endeavor to Recover Art in Von Saher v. Norton Simon Museum…
Framing Fiduciary Duty in Marchig v. Christie’s
A Pissarro, Stolen and Forfeited
Art Authentication: another foundation comes under scrutiny
Yes Rasta: Richard Prince loses copyright suit
Recent Developments on the Herzog Collection — Nixon Peabody Advises Hungary with Restitution Issues
Parties in Adams Photo Dispute Settle
Dances With Bisons Starring Costner and Detmers — UPDATED 5/15/12
Art Dealers Under Review: The Wildensteins
Westfield v. Federal Republic of Germany — FSIA schields Germany from defending the case on the…
WikiLeaks and Art Law?! Black Swan Affair Gets Wind to its Sail
Spain, Thyssen-Bornemisza Seek Review of Ninth Circuit FSIA Decision
Term of Art: Authenticity
United States and Nicaragua Extend Agreement to Protect Archaeological Heritage of Nicaragua
Will the Supreme Court Take Up Nazi-era Limitations Periods?
YouTube copyright case in Spain — Google cleared
Just Another Art Restitution Case? Think again
Another Odyssey Decisions from FL courts
VARA Applies to Unfinished Works
DOJ Urges 7th Circuit to Shield Iranian Artifacts From Seizure by Terrorism Victims
GLOBAL PIRACY WATCH: AUSTRALIA’S ISP LIABILITY TEST CASE
SHEPARD FAIREY V. ASSOCIATED PRESS (PICTURE’S WORTH SOMETHING)
Keep your Friends Close — Foundations In Dispute Over Artists’ Funds
Photographers of the World Unit (Under US Copyright Law)
