Law Mega-Collector Ronald Perelman Is Suing to Recover $410 Million for Art He Says Lost ‘Oomph’ After a Fire at His Hamptons Estate. His Insurance Companies Say It Looks Fine Perelman says pricey artworks were damaged in the fire. Insurers say they were not. Which competing expert analyses will win out. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 26, 2022
Law Cardi B Is Found Not Guilty of Stealing a Stranger’s Tattoo for Her Racy Album Cover Art “I wasn’t sure if I was going to lose or not,” the rapper said after leaving the courthouse. By Vittoria Benzine, Oct 24, 2022
Law The U.S. Charges a British Businessman With Trying to Ship a Sanctioned Russian Oligarch’s Art Out of New York Graham Bonham-Carter was arrested for attempting to help the billionaire industrialist Oleg Vladimirovich Deripaska escape sanctions. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 20, 2022
Law ‘It Felt Like My Michelangelo Was Stolen Off the Wall’: Trial Begins Over Back Tattoo Photoshopped Onto Risqué Cardi B Album Cover Cardi B is fighting allegations that she misappropriated the plaintiff's likeness in artwork featured on the cover of her debut album. By Vittoria Benzine, Oct 20, 2022
Law ‘Shamefully Cruel’: A Curator Speaks Out as Guantánamo Detainees Petition to Keep the U.S. Government From Taking Their Art An open letter is asking the Biden administration to reverse a decision that denies detainees the right to own their own art. By Vittoria Benzine, Oct 17, 2022
Law The SEC Is Investigating Yuga Labs, Creator of the Bored Ape Yacht Club, to Decide If NFTs Should be Regulated Like Stocks Yuga Labs, the crypto company at the center of the probe, has not been accused of wrongdoing. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 13, 2022
Law Liberal and Conservative Justices Seem Split in the Supreme Court’s Landmark Andy Warhol Copyright Case (and Not in the Way You May Think) The case is expected to have major ramifications for the future of creative freedom. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 13, 2022
Law Two Paris Gallerists Accused of Buying and Hiding More Than $13 Million Worth of Stolen Picassos Are Finally Standing Trial The verdict is expected in November. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Oct 11, 2022
Law Uffizi Is Suing Fashion Label Jean Paul Gaultier for Using Botticelli’s ‘Birth of Venus’ in a Capsule Collection A similar case was fought last year when an adult entertainment website used images of the masterpiece painting for an online guide. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Oct 10, 2022
Law The Judd Foundation Is Suing Two Galleries for ‘Disfiguring’ an $850,000 Donald Judd Sculpture With Fingerprints Fingerprints can "leave permanent, disfiguring, irreversible marks" on Judd's anodized aluminum surfaces, the foundation says. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 6, 2022
Law A St. Louis Jury Just Ordered a Video Game Company to Pay a Tattoo Artist Whose Designs It Copied, Setting a Major Legal Precedent The case opens up a Pandora’s box of legal questions for the tattoo community. By Torey Akers, Oct 4, 2022
Law Homage or Copy? Deborah Roberts Is Suing a Fellow Artist for Allegedly Stealing Her Photocollage Style The legal clash revisits old disputes about whether artists with similar styles should be allowed to compete in the same market. By Zachary Small, Sep 28, 2022
Law A New York Artist Claims to Have Set a Precedent by Copyrighting Their A.I.-Assisted Comic Book. But the Law May Not Agree Kris Kashtanova recently secured a U.S. copyright for the 18-page book "Zarya of the Dawn," which uses imagery generated using Midjourney. By Vittoria Benzine, Sep 27, 2022
Law A New U.K. Law Gives Museums Unprecedented Power to Deaccession Art and Repatriate Objects in Their Collections The law could be a breakthrough for old restitution cases, but they remain at the museum's discretion. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Sep 27, 2022
Law In a Complete Reversal, Singapore Foundation Apologizes for Seeking Court Order to Block KAWS Exhibition The Ryan Foundation now says its allegations against the exhibition organizers AllRightsReserved were incorrect. By Vivienne Chow, Sep 26, 2022
