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Trial Warhol prints may be authenticated in alleged policy adjustment for Authentication Board

A source close to the Andy Warhol Authentication Board hints at a change of heart

Art marketarchive

Warhol Brillo boxes could be fake

Allegations circulate that curator Pontus Hultén created unauthorised replicas

Newsarchive

Accountant alleges major fraud at art school founded by Andy Warhol

Charges focus on former executive director of the New York Academy of Art

Forgeriesarchive

Photographer Peter Beard sues over forgeries at Sotheby’s

“Crude and brazen forgeries” of the artist's work are popping up in the market

Field Museum to return Maori remains to New Zealand

Te Papa Tongarewa, the national museum in Wellington, will hold them until they can be identified

May 2007archive

Seattle Art Museum gets $1bn worth of art from 'incredibly devoted group of collectors'

The gift from 53 local patrons is one of the largest in the history of institutional donations

April 2007archive

MoMA defends director’s secret pay

Glenn Lowry received more than $5m through a separate trust which the New York museum's trustees argue was “legal and ethical”

NEA will establish new panel to select American artists for biennales

The State Department wants to promote programmes in the Muslim world

Museumsarchive

MoMA’s secret fund for director

Trust payment “raises serious questions”

Albright-Knox sells the old to pay for the new

Sotheby's is auctioning 200 antiquities and pre-Modern works worth $15m from the US museum's collection to raise funds to purchase Modern and contemporary art

Museumsarchive

MoMA sells land and secures room for expansion

The new deal will earn them approximately $65m

Miami Art Museum and Miami Art Central may merge

Collectors show their support for Miami art museums

Museumsarchive

MoMA puts collection inventories online

This move will substantially increase the accessibility of it's collections

Museumsarchive

MoMA creates first permanent curatorial post for Latin American art

The museums owns around 3,000 works of Latin American art

Museumsarchive

Latin American curator for MoMA

Luís Perez-Oramas, who currently serves as adjunct curator of drawings at the museum, is the institution’s first curator of Latin American Art

Museumsarchive

MoMA completes merger with PS1

“It is like another department at the museum,” says MoMA director Glenn Lowry

Unescoarchive

Getty revises its guidelines for acquiring antiquities—again

Artefacts must have left their countries of origin by 1970, the year of the Unesco Convention, or have proper export documentation to be considered for purchase

Washington DC. Corcoran’s future remains uncertain

The institution hopes a $2m V&A blockbuster exhibition of modernist design will draw visitors and sponsors

Italy gets antiquities back from Boston Museum of Fine Arts

The museum bought in good faith, but was shown evidence that they had left Italy illicitly

US foundations back new charity handing out grants to artists

The United States artists fund fills the vacuum created after the government suspended the National Endowment for the Arts in the '90s

Lawarchive

New legislation could lead to the end of partial gifts to museums

Changes to US tax law could discourage collectors from giving

Provenance research is too expensive, museums tell Congress

The hearing concerning America's progress in returning Nazi loot to original owners discussed potential problems