Art and Law Thieves Stole a $3.4 Million Brueghel From a Remote Italian Church—or So They Thought. Here’s How the Village Tricked Them The town's mayor was one of the few people who knew that the real painting was somewhere safe but locals had their suspicions something was up. By Nan Stewert, Mar 13, 2019
Art and Law Behind the Scenes of Two Disgruntled Jeff Koons Collectors’ Legal Battle With Gagosian In court this week, one judge let a case against Gagosian proceed while another encouraged the collector and the gallery to reach a settlement. By Julia Halperin, Mar 7, 2019
Art and Law A British Court Just Made a Landmark Decision in Favor of Museum Educators That Could Have Big Implications for the Gig Economy A London court has ruled that a group of former lecturers at the National Gallery should be granted workers' rights. By Naomi Rea, Mar 1, 2019
Art and Law An Art Dealer Is Detained at a Paris Airport as Part of His Ongoing Battle With Poland Over a Nazi-Looted Painting His attorneys claim it's all in retaliation for a lawsuit. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 28, 2019
Art and Law A Collector Says He Found a Jackson Pollock Painting Once Owned by Fidel Castro. Experts Say It’s a Scam The International Foundation for Art Research says the fake could point to a larger con. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 27, 2019
Art and Law Cairo Airport Officials Found a Smuggled Mummy’s Limbs Hidden in a Hollowed-Out Loudspeaker X-rays helped officials spot the suspicious package before it could leave the country. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 27, 2019
Art and Law Is Banksy Selling Out? After Years of Skirting the Law, the Street Artist Went to Court to Protect His Own Copyright—and Won The artist accused the museum of selling unauthorized Banksy merchandise. By Caroline Goldstein, Feb 26, 2019
Art and Law At One of New York’s Ritziest Art Fairs, Oyster-Shuckers and Genteel Calm Mask a Court Battle Behind the Scenes TEFAF and Artvest disagree over the terms of their partnership. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 26, 2019
Art and Law After Three Years of Prison for a Watercolor, Outspoken Kurdish Artist Zehra Doğan Has Been Freed in Turkey The journalist and artist was arrested in 2017 for painting a military attack in Turkey. By Caroline Goldstein, Feb 25, 2019
Art and Law Veteran Art Dealer Mary Boone, Recently Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Tax Fraud, Will Close Her 42-Year-Old Gallery Boone described herself as the "Martha Stewart of the art world." By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 25, 2019
Art and Law A Collector Couple Is Suing Dealer Philippe Hoerle-Guggenheim for ‘Despicable’ Failure to Deliver Paid-For Art A new lawsuit contends that collectors paid half a million dollars for a Renoir that Hoerle-Guggenheim never delivered. It also questions his art-world pedigree. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 21, 2019
Art and Law Police Have Evacuated Saint Petersburg’s Storied Hermitage Museum Due to a Bomb Threat The museum's director and senior staff remain at their posts, but the museum is closed. By Javier Pes, Feb 21, 2019
Art and Law The ‘Ivory Queen’ Is Sentenced to 15 Years in a Tanzanian Prison for Smuggling Tons of Elephant Tusks Into Asia Chinese-born Yang Feng Glan is being held accountable for her role in the poaching of hundreds of elephants. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 20, 2019
Art and Law After a Guarantor Crashed the Sale of Gerhard Richter’s ‘Fighter Jet’ in 2016, Phillips Is Trying Again—at a Lower Price Phillips is hoping to recoup some of the $24 million it lost when a guarantor backed out of the original deal. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 20, 2019
Art and Law The Investment Firm That Commissioned Wall Street’s ‘Fearless Girl’ Is Suing the Artist for Making Replicas The investment firm State Street Global is suing artist Kristen Visbal for trademark infringement. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 19, 2019
