Art and Law A British Court Just Froze the Assets of Inigo Philbrick, a Dealer Accused of Holding $14 Million Worth of Art Hostage The request came from German financial company FAP, which is suing Philbrick in the US. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 13, 2019
Art and Law A Bill That Aims to Fight Money Laundering Through Antiquities Sales Is Making Its Way Through Congress. Some Dealers Are Quaking A bill currently before the Senate could subject art and antiquities dealers to tighter oversight. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 12, 2019
Art and Law Labor Organizers Have Filed a Complaint Against the Marciano Art Foundation Over Its Abrupt Closure in the Wake of Unionization Efforts Artists Frances Stark and Sadie Barnette are publicly condemning the foundation’s move. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 11, 2019
Art and Law 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
Art and Law 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
Art and Law 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
Art and Law 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
Art and Law 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
Art and Law 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
Art and Law 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
Art and Law 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
Art and Law 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
Art and Law 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
Art and Law 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
Art and Law 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
