Law & Politics ‘Artforum’ Settles With Ex-Employee Amanda Schmitt, Ending the Long Legal Battle That Ousted Former Publisher Knight Landesman Emails have surfaced indicating that the magazine's publishers knew more about Landesman's behavior than they let on. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 16, 2021
Law & Politics The Heirs to a Jewish Collector Are Appealing a Decision Allowing the Stedelijk to Keep a Kandinsky Painting It Acquired During World War II Some Dutch officials have decried the decision to favor the museum. By Kate Brown, Mar 12, 2021
Law & Politics A Trove of Islamic Artifacts Will Return to the Museum That Sought to Sell Them Off After the Al Thani Collection Foundation Stepped In Sotheby's helped broker the deal between the Museum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem and the Al Thani Collection Foundation. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 10, 2021
Law & Politics UK Art Dealers Are Misusing the Law to Avoid New Money-Laundering Regulations. Compliance Experts Say It Will Backfire Art businesses should not be fooled into thinking they can use "reliance" as a loophole, experts say. By Naomi Rea, Mar 9, 2021
Law & Politics A Battle in the Legal War Over Robert Indiana’s Legacy Ends as His Estate Settles With the Artist’s Longtime Representative But Indiana's estate is still in a fight with a publisher accused of manipulating the artist prior to his death. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 8, 2021
Law & Politics Harvard Can Keep Daguerreotypes Depicting Enslaved Africans, Despite Objections From One of the Subject’s Ancestors, a Court Has Ruled The photos belonged to the photographer, not the subjects, the judge ruled. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 5, 2021
Law & Politics Dissenting Artists Around the Globe Were Jailed and Killed at an Alarming Rate Last Year, According to a New Report The survey found that governments may be using the pandemic as a pretense to crack down on artists. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 3, 2021
Law & Politics Joe Biden Has Revoked Trump’s Executive Order Mandating Classical-Only Architecture for Federal Buildings, Restoring ‘Freedom of Design’ The "Make Federal Buildings Beautiful Again" order is no more. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 26, 2021
Law & Politics The Turkish Government Is Trying to Shut Down an Arts Organization Founded by Activist and Political Prisoner Osman Kavala Kavala has been imprisoned for more than three and a half years for specious charges brought by President Erdoğan’s government. By Artnet News, Feb 25, 2021
Law & Politics A French Appeals Court Has Found Jeff Koons Guilty of Copyright Infringement Again—and Hiked Up His Fines The Paris court shot down the Pompidou and Koons's appeal of the long-running case. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 24, 2021
Law & Politics No Longer Able to Easily Work in Europe, UK Artists Are Urging Boris Johnson to Renegotiate Brexit Terms to Allow for Visa-Free Travel British artists are now having a harder time getting work in Europe. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 18, 2021
Law & Politics A French Court Has Ordered a Far-Right Mayor to Close the Local Museums He Opened Last Week in Defiance of the National Lockdown Perpignan mayor Louis Aliot cannot act outside of the national lockdown decree, the court ruled. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 16, 2021
Law & Politics Artist Nick Cave Just Won a Bizarre Legal Fight Over Whether His Political Mural in a New York Village Is Actually Art. (It Is) The town's board unanimously ruled that Cave’s text installation is indeed an artwork. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 4, 2021
Law & Politics Turkey Violated an Artist’s Freedoms by Fining Him for Insulting the President, Europe’s Human Rights Court Has Ruled The British artist was convicted and fined in 2010. By Naomi Rea, Feb 4, 2021
Law & Politics The Ex-Wife of Disgraced Art Dealer Helge Achenbach Must Pay $1.2 Million to the Heirs of a Major Supermarket Chain Dorothee Achenbach has been found to have negligently sold unauthorized copies of artworks as originals. By Kate Brown, Feb 4, 2021
