Art and Law Disgraced Art Dealer Inigo Philbrick Has Been Formally Charged by US Authorities With Wire Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft Philbrick is reportedly in the same Oklahoma jail where "Tiger King" Joe Exotic was incarcerated until recently. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 14, 2020
Art and Law In a Big Win for Yves Bouvier, a Monaco Judge Throws Out Dmitry Rybolovlev’s Charges Against the Swiss Art Dealer The decision effectively ends the case against Bouvier in Monaco. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 9, 2020
Art and Law The FBI Just Raided a Major Art-Forgery Ring Operating Out of a Michigan Barn That Duped Top Experts DB Henkel is accused of masterminding the plot to sell fake paintings by historical American artists. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 9, 2020
Art and Law An Art-Dealing Dynasty Heir Sues Phillips Auction House for Reneging on a Deal After the Artist’s Market Took a Tumble Art dealer Joe Nahmad is suing Phillips after the auction house pulled out of a $5 million guarantee deal for a work by Rudolf Stingel. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 8, 2020
Art and Law Jeff Koons, Gagosian Gallery, and Many Other Blue-Chip Art Operations Received Millions of Dollars in Government Stimulus Money The US government has released the names of businesses that received more than $150,000 in federal stimulus loans. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 7, 2020
Art and Law Cuban Authorities Detained Artist Tania Bruguera While She Was on Her Way to a Protest Against Police Violence in Havana Bruguera was one of at least 40 dissident artists and activists taken into custody by Cuban authorities prior to the event. By Taylor Dafoe, Jul 1, 2020
Art and Law The New York Academy of Art Commissioned a Report That Purports to Discredit Claims That the School Enabled Jeffrey Epstein’s Abuses Despite Maria Farmer's allegations, the academy's board of trustees has asked its embattled chair, Eileen Guggenheim, to remain in her position. By Rachel Corbett, Jun 30, 2020
Art and Law Authorities Arrest 6 Suspects in France Over the Theft of Banksy’s Mural Commemorating the Bataclan Attack The mural was recovered earlier this month, one year after it was swiped from its home outside the Paris theater. By Kate Brown, Jun 29, 2020
Art and Law A New App Aims to Help UK Art Dealers Struggling to Comply With the Country’s Confusing New Anti-Money-Laundering Rules ArtAML guides dealers through due diligence checks on clients. By Naomi Rea, Jun 29, 2020
Art and Law Facebook, a Longtime Hub for the Illicit Antiquities Trade, Bans the Sale of Historic Artifacts on the Platform Ancient coins, manuscripts, mosaics, scrolls, and tombstones are all included in the ban. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 24, 2020
Art and Law The ACLU Is Suing Miami Beach for Censoring a Memorial Portrait of a Black Man Who Was Killed by Police The work briefly appeared as part of an exhibition in Miami Beach last May. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 23, 2020
Art and Law Charging Bull, Symbol of Wall Street’s Roaring Market, Will Remain in Place After a Vote Nixes New York Mayor de Blasio’s Plan to Move It The committee that oversees the installation of artworks on city-owned land voted unanimously against the mayor's plan. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 23, 2020
Art and Law A Charles White Drawing Went Missing From Howard University. After 40 Years, It Appeared at Auction—and Now Howard Wants It Back Howard University purchased the work after White's time as an artist-in-residence at the college. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 22, 2020
Art and Law Runaway Art Heiress Angela Gulbenkian, Accused of Scamming a Collector Out of a $1.4 Million Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin, Has Been Arrested in Lisbon She is currently being held in Lisbon and is awaiting extradition to the UK. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 18, 2020
Art and Law ‘He Didn’t Hide Who He Was’: Locals Describe Disgraced Art Dealer Inigo Philbrick’s Carefree Life on the Lam on a South Pacific Island Locals were aware that authorities were closing in. But Philbrick may have had no idea. By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 17, 2020
