Law The Turkish Government Is Trying to Shut Down an Arts Organization Founded by Activist and Political Prisoner Osman Kavala Kavala has been imprisoned for more than three and a half years for specious charges brought by President Erdoğan’s government. By Artnet News, Feb 25, 2021
Law A French Appeals Court Has Found Jeff Koons Guilty of Copyright Infringement Again—and Hiked Up His Fines The Paris court shot down the Pompidou and Koons's appeal of the long-running case. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 24, 2021
Law No Longer Able to Easily Work in Europe, UK Artists Are Urging Boris Johnson to Renegotiate Brexit Terms to Allow for Visa-Free Travel British artists are now having a harder time getting work in Europe. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 18, 2021
Law A French Court Has Ordered a Far-Right Mayor to Close the Local Museums He Opened Last Week in Defiance of the National Lockdown Perpignan mayor Louis Aliot cannot act outside of the national lockdown decree, the court ruled. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 16, 2021
Law Artist Nick Cave Just Won a Bizarre Legal Fight Over Whether His Political Mural in a New York Village Is Actually Art. (It Is) The town's board unanimously ruled that Cave’s text installation is indeed an artwork. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 4, 2021
Law Turkey Violated an Artist’s Freedoms by Fining Him for Insulting the President, Europe’s Human Rights Court Has Ruled The British artist was convicted and fined in 2010. By Naomi Rea, Feb 4, 2021
Law The Ex-Wife of Disgraced Art Dealer Helge Achenbach Must Pay $1.2 Million to the Heirs of a Major Supermarket Chain Dorothee Achenbach has been found to have negligently sold unauthorized copies of artworks as originals. By Kate Brown, Feb 4, 2021
Law In a Precedent-Setting Move, the Supreme Court Denies Jewish Heirs’ Attempt to Reclaim the $250 Million Guelph Treasure The heirs of the dealers who sold the treasure under duress will get another chance to make their case in a district court. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 3, 2021
Law The Museum of the Bible Must Once Again Return Artifacts, This Time an Entire Warehouse of 5,000 Egyptian Objects The man behind the DC institution has admitted his collecting "naiveté." By Caroline Goldstein, Jan 29, 2021
Law In a Victory for Art Dealer Yves Bouvier, Swiss Prosecutors Are Closing the Book on Claims Brought Against Him by a Russian Oligarch The decision is the latest development in a long-running legal dispute between the Swiss dealer and billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev. By Naomi Rea, Jan 28, 2021
Law Landlords in a Tony Hamptons Town Must Fill Their Empty Storefronts With Works by Local Artists—Or Else Pay a Fine Southampton's mayor proposed the initiative, which is now a law, last summer. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 25, 2021
Law UK Galleries Will Benefit From a Court Ruling Forcing Insurers to Pay Businesses for Losses Incurred During Lockdown Arts businesses will still likely have to fight to get their claims fully reimbursed. By Naomi Rea, Jan 18, 2021
Law The UK Government Plans to Make It Harder to Remove Public Monuments to Controversial Figures One minister referred to demonstrators as "baying mobs." By Naomi Rea, Jan 18, 2021
Law Artist Nick Cave’s Controversial Upstate New York Artwork Has Found a New Home at the Brooklyn Museum The public artwork has been attacked by the mayor of a small town where it was installed. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 15, 2021
Law A Drawing Believed to Be the Final Nazi-Looted Artwork in the Gurlitt Collection Has Been Returned to Its Rightful Owners The provenance of some 1,000 artworks from the notorious collection still remain unknown. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 13, 2021
