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
Art and Law A Spate of Lawsuits Is Targeting Art Schools for Failing to Comply With Disability Act Standards The Trump administration stopped drafting compliance guidelines, opening the door to confusion and a flood of lawsuits. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 19, 2019
Art and Law Veteran Art Dealer Mary Boone Is Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Tax Evasion The veteran art dealer pleaded guilty to two counts of tax evasion in September. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 14, 2019
Art and Law Christie’s Returned 8 Looted Ancient Artworks to Italy at the Request of the Country’s Government Some of the objects are believed to be more than 2,000 years old. By Henri Neuendorf, Feb 13, 2019
Art and Law A Collector Is Suing a Gallery for Allegedly Withholding Auction Records Before a Sale. The Dealer Says the Data Was Easily Available Gary Klesch says dealer Richard Green never disclosed the auction histories of two paintings the collector bought at Tefaf. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 13, 2019
