Law & Politics ‘I Have No Other Choice’: Holocaust Survivor Relinquishes Her Claim to a Looted Camille Pissarro Painting The painting was stolen by the Nazis in 1941. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 1, 2021
Law & Politics A Street Artist Is Suing the Vatican—and Turned Down a Meeting With the Pope—After She Says It Used Her Art Without Permission Alessia Babrow is seeking $160,000 in damages after the Vatican issued a stamp using one of her images. By Sarah Cascone, May 25, 2021
Law & Politics More Than 130 Royal College of Art Students Accuse the School of Losing or Damaging Their Work During Lockdown Numerous artists are now threatening to sue the school over the incident. By Taylor Dafoe, May 21, 2021
Law & Politics The E.U. Rules Against Banksy in His Trademark Fight With a Greeting Card Company, Citing His Own Statement That ‘Copyright Is For Losers’ The European Union Intellectual Property Office also cited his anonymity. By Eileen Kinsella, May 20, 2021
Law & Politics An International Feud Over a Looted Pissarro Painting Comes to a Head as a French Court Rejects a Holocaust Survivor’s Claim The court denied Léone Meyer's attempt to overturn a settlement with an Oklahoma art museum. By Sarah Cascone, May 13, 2021
Law & Politics It May Have Been Kanye West—Not Kim Kardashian—Who Bought an Allegedly Looted Ancient Roman Sculpture From Italy Kardashian says she's never even seen the centuries-old sculpture. By Taylor Dafoe, May 10, 2021
Law & Politics New York Mayor Bill de Blasio Is Launching a $25 Million ‘New Deal’-Style Program to Employ Local Artists With Public Commissions The money will fund some 1,500 local artists in the “comeback of New York City,” the mayor says. By Taylor Dafoe, May 6, 2021
Law & Politics Kim Kardashian Must Forfeit an Ancient Roman Sculpture That Experts Say Was Looted From Italy The celebrity influencer purchased the work from Axel Vervoordt Gallery in 2016. By Naomi Rea, May 4, 2021
Law & Politics The Heirs of Late Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-Hee Will Give 23,000 Works of Art to Korean Museums to Polish Their Tarnished Image The family's art collection is worth a reported $2.7 billion. By Kate Brown, Apr 28, 2021
Law & Politics An Indonesian Theme Park Must Destroy Its Knockoff of Chris Burden’s ‘Urban Light’ After Losing a Suit Brought by the Artist’s Estate Rabbit Town has 30 days to remove the infringing installation and apologize to the Burden estate. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 27, 2021
Law & Politics After an Uproar, the Penn Museum Will Return the Suspected Remains of a Black Teenage Girl Who Died in a 1985 Police Bombing An online course in which the remains were used as a case study has stirred up controversy for the Philadelphia institution. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 27, 2021
Law & Politics French Galleries Must Remain Closed Even Though Auction Houses Are Open During the Country’s Third Lockdown, a Court Rules The ruling shuts down a gallery association lawsuit claiming the rules created unfair competition. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 15, 2021
Law & Politics A Former Samsung Chairman’s Multibillion-Dollar Art Collection May Be Donated to South Korea’s Museums, Avoiding an International Sell-Off Cultural officials previously feared that the chairman’s heirs might sell the collection abroad to pay their inheritance tax. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 15, 2021
Law & Politics A 27-Year-Old Artist Is on Trial in Russia After Publishing Cartoonish Drawings That Promote an Accepting View of the Female Body The state is refusing public access to the trial on the grounds that the artist's work will be examined in court. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 14, 2021
Law & Politics The Tel Aviv Museum of Art Will Restitute Two 17th-Century Tapestries of Moses Looted by the Nazis in the 1930s The artworks were taken from a German-Jewish family that ran a prominent liberal newspaper. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 12, 2021
