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    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

  • Law

    In a Precedent-Setting Move, the Supreme Court Denies Jewish Heirs’ Attempt to Reclaim the $250 Million Guelph Treasure

    The heirs of the dealers who sold the treasure under duress will get another chance to make their case in a district court.

    By Sarah Cascone, Feb 3, 2021

  • Law

    The Museum of the Bible Must Once Again Return Artifacts, This Time an Entire Warehouse of 5,000 Egyptian Objects

    The man behind the DC institution has admitted his collecting "naiveté."

    By Caroline Goldstein, Jan 29, 2021

  • Law

    In a Victory for Art Dealer Yves Bouvier, Swiss Prosecutors Are Closing the Book on Claims Brought Against Him by a Russian Oligarch

    The decision is the latest development in a long-running legal dispute between the Swiss dealer and billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev.

    By Naomi Rea, Jan 28, 2021

  • Law

    Landlords in a Tony Hamptons Town Must Fill Their Empty Storefronts With Works by Local Artists—Or Else Pay a Fine

    Southampton's mayor proposed the initiative, which is now a law, last summer.

    By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 25, 2021

  • Law

    UK Galleries Will Benefit From a Court Ruling Forcing Insurers to Pay Businesses for Losses Incurred During Lockdown

    Arts businesses will still likely have to fight to get their claims fully reimbursed.

    By Naomi Rea, Jan 18, 2021

  • Law

    The UK Government Plans to Make It Harder to Remove Public Monuments to Controversial Figures

    One minister referred to demonstrators as "baying mobs."

    By Naomi Rea, Jan 18, 2021

  • Law

    Artist Nick Cave’s Controversial Upstate New York Artwork Has Found a New Home at the Brooklyn Museum

    The public artwork has been attacked by the mayor of a small town where it was installed.

    By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 15, 2021

  • Law

    A Drawing Believed to Be the Final Nazi-Looted Artwork in the Gurlitt Collection Has Been Returned to Its Rightful Owners

    The provenance of some 1,000 artworks from the notorious collection still remain unknown.

    By Sarah Cascone, Jan 13, 2021

  • Law

    Street Artist Futura Is Suing the North Face Clothing Company for Allegedly Stealing His Signature Motif for a Line of Outerwear

    “The North Face seems like they care a lot about being cool,” says the artist’s lawyer. “This is probably the most uncool thing they have ever done.”

    By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 13, 2021

  • Law

    Mwazulu Diyabanza, the Robin Hood of Restitution Activism, Has Been Fined for Removing a Congolese Funerary Statue From a Dutch Museum

    Diyabanza was banned from entering museums, but is allowed to meet with museum directors.

    By Kate Brown, Jan 12, 2021

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