Law & Politics A Bombshell Lawsuit Claims That High-Flying Art Dealer Inigo Philbrick Swindled His Clients by Selling the Same Rudolf Stingel Again and Again The case includes accusations of a fake auction guarantee and double-dealing. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 8, 2019
Law & Politics Los Angeles Police Have Recovered $800,000 Worth of Missing Scottish Spiritual Art From a Private Home, Ending a Seven-Year Mystery But roughly 974 works remain to be found. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 7, 2019
Law & Politics The Marciano Brothers Are Closing Their Huge Private Museum in Los Angeles Indefinitely as Staff Fight to Unionize The decision comes amid layoffs of front-of-house staff, who were seeking to unionize. By Kate Brown, Nov 7, 2019
Law & Politics Prince Charles’s Charity Displayed Paintings by Picasso, Dalí, and Monet—Until a Convicted Forger Claimed Them as His Own 'There's no way the paintings could pass even the lightest scrutiny," the artist claiming them said. By Javier Pes, Nov 4, 2019
Law & Politics In a Brazen Treasure Heist in France, Thieves Rammed a Medieval Cathedral With a Tree Trunk and Made Off With Precious Artifacts The perpetrators targeted the UNESCO World Heritage Site early on Monday morning. By Naomi Rea, Nov 4, 2019
Law & Politics Disgraced Financier Jho Low Is Turning Over a Picasso and Basquiat Once Given to Leonardo DiCaprio as Part of a $700 Million Settlement Low's settlement with the US Justice Department is said to be the largest civil forfeiture deal ever. By Julia Halperin, Oct 31, 2019
Law & Politics To Settle the Macklowe Divorce, a Court Will Ask a Famed Art Dealer to Sell Off Their $700 Million Art Collection—and Everyone Is Watching The hefty collection may be coming to an auction block near you soon. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 28, 2019
Law & Politics The FBI Has Seized Suspected Nazi-Looted Art From a Little-Known Upstate New York Museum The painting had been in the collection of prominent German patron Rudolf Mosse. By Kate Brown, Oct 24, 2019
Law & Politics Three More People Are Arrested in Connection With the Theft of Maurizio Cattelan’s Solid Gold Toilet From an English Palace A reward of almost $130,000 is also available to anyone with information leading to the sculpture's recovery. By Javier Pes, Oct 23, 2019
Law & Politics An Italian Court Rules Once and for All to Allow Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Vitruvian Man’ to Travel to the Louvre, Ending Years of Legal Wrangling The upcoming Louvre retrospective marks the 500th anniversary of the artist's death. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 17, 2019
Law & Politics A UK Watchdog Has Shut Down Two Fraudulent Art Investment Companies That Scammed Unsuspecting Backers Out of $1.3 Million Participants thought they were investing in works by Picasso and Dalí. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 16, 2019
Law & Politics The Owners of Hobby Lobby Are Returning Biblical Antiquities That Were Allegedly Stolen by an Oxford Professor This is the second time that the family and its Museum of the Bible have bought illicit antiquities. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 15, 2019
Law & Politics After the Release of a New Movie on a Notorious Art Fraudster, the FBI Is Seeking the Owner of a Dubuffet Painting Connected to the Case The French-born con man at the heart of the scandal is now the subject of a new BBC documentary. By Caroline Goldstein, Oct 11, 2019
Law & Politics An Artist Shut Down His Own Show at New York’s HG Contemporary After Claiming the Dealer Didn’t Pay Him or His Framers Louis Carreon has abruptly ended his relationship with the dealer. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 8, 2019
Law & Politics A Judge Has Ordered Facebook to Reveal the Anonymous Instagrammer Who Made #MeToo Allegations Against Artist Subodh Gupta The artist is also pursuing a defamation lawsuit against the account holder. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 1, 2019
