Art and Law Billionaire Banker Jaime Botin Gets an 18-Month Prison Sentence and a $58 Million Fine for Smuggling a Picasso Out of Spain Banker stashed the Picasso on his yacht despite being denied an export permit. By Eileen Kinsella, Jan 16, 2020
Art and Law The Descendants of a Jewish Art Collector Are Suing the Stedelijk Museum Over a Kandinsky Work They Say Is Rightfully Theirs The museum purchased the work at auction in 1940. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 14, 2020
Art and Law It’s Harder Than Ever for Artists to Get Visas to the United States. But an Army of Volunteer Lawyers Wants to Help The sessions will put artists in touch with lawyers who specialize in immigration law. By Caroline Goldstein, Jan 8, 2020
Art and Law The Collectors Who Lent Two Dozen Allegedly Fake Artworks to a Major Belgian Museum Have Been Arrested Igor and Olga Toporovsky were taken into custody late last month. By Javier Pes, Jan 3, 2020
Art and Law The Artist and Jeffrey Epstein Truther Who Vandalized Maurizio Cattelan’s Banana Booth Defends Himself in Court We mean that literally—he is representing himself. By Caroline Goldstein, Jan 2, 2020
Art and Law Long Hidden From the Public Eye, These Artistic Treasures From 1924 Are Now Entering the Public Domain Works by Georgia O'Keeffe, Lyonel Feininger, and other US artists are now free to be reproduced. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 2, 2020
Art and Law The London Man Who Allegedly Attacked a $26 Million Picasso at Tate Modern Says He Will Fight the Charge The state of the painting is currently unknown. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 2, 2020
Art and Law Appeals Court Greenlights Ex-Artforum Employee Amanda Schmitt’s Lawsuit Against the Magazine—But Lets Knight Landesman Off the Hook The court said Schmitt could proceed with two of her four claims against the magazine. By Rachel Corbett, Dec 27, 2019
Art and Law The Family of Thomas Hart Benton Is Suing a Missouri Bank for Allegedly Losing Track of 100 of His Artworks UMB Bank, which runs the artist's estate, is managed by the Kemper family. By Sarah Cascone, Dec 19, 2019
Art and Law A Prominent Art-Finance Company Says Embattled Dealer Inigo Philbrick Owes It $15 Million for a Loan He Never Paid Back The five works Philbrick used as collateral are already the subject of numerous claims. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 19, 2019
Art and Law Court Orders Art Dealer Asher Edelman’s Company to Pay $1 Million in the Botched Sale of a Keith Haring Painting Edelman had claimed that he was acting as an agent on behalf of a client who backed out of the deal, not as the buyer himself. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 17, 2019
Art and Law The Scandal Surrounding Dealer Inigo Philbrick Deepens as New Claims on Millions of Dollars’ Worth of Art Keep Piling Up A grand total of three entities are claiming a stake in a single painting sold by Philbrick. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 13, 2019
Art and Law A Monaco Judge Has Cleared Art Dealer Yves Bouvier of the $1 Billion Fraud Alleged by Russian Oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev Rybolovlev is still pursuing legal action against Bouvier in several other jurisdictions. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 12, 2019
Art and Law Why Is This Artist Trying to Anger Disney’s Feared Lawyers? It’s All Part of a Delightfully Devious Scheme to Stop Internet Scammers In order to bust T-shirt makers that copy artists’ designs, one artist baited them into deep legal waters. By Brian Boucher, Dec 12, 2019
Art and Law A British Court Hands Sotheby’s a Win in Its Lawsuit Over the Bungled Sale of $13.8 Million Frans Hals Sotheby's has been pursuing reimbursement for several years By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 11, 2019
