Art law
Funding Secure goes into administration after borrowers including London art dealer fail to pay back loans
Matthew Green owes the firm around £3m, according to legal documents filed by the peer-to-peer lender
Number of Manhattan's park art vendors can be limited by New York City, court rules
Appeals court says that guidelines limiting number of sellers in four green spaces are constitutional
Long-running Facebook battle over censored Courbet painting gets happy ending
Social media giant pays out after closing French teacher's account for posting photo of the Origin of the World
Collector wins $1.7 million in damages from New York Gallery over violation of lending contract
Jean-Pierre Lehmann was denied “the right of first refusal over everybody”
Mayor Gallery sues over Agnes Martin
Catalogues raisonnés emerge as the latest front in the battle to authenticate works and secure market value
Richard Prince is sued yet again for unauthorised appropriation of photographs
Eric McNatt files lawsuit over artist’s reproduction of a portrait of rock musician Kim Gordon
Picasso’s electrician admits he lied in court
Pierre Le Guennec changes his story claiming artist's wife gave him 271 works in rubbish bag
National Gallery director says $30m Matisse portrait 'not Nazi-looted art'
Heirs of Greta Moll are demanding London museum returns painting of their grandmother
Seven 'red flags' in the Knoedler trial that should give dealers and sellers sleepless nights
Judge's findings reveal what to look out for in art transactions
Bipartisan bill to remove hurdles for heirs seeking Holocaust-era art
The legislation, sponsored by presidential hopeful Ted Cruz among others, comes as the race for the US election heats up
Smears, counterclaims and lawsuits—the tangled web surrounding Prince of Liechtenstein’s Cranach
Old Master works by Orazio Gentileschi, Frans Hals and Diego Velázquez drawn into dispute
‘Red flags were flying’ around Knoedler fakes, experts testify
Seven of 11 specialists named by the gallery say they never authenticated work that turned out to be a forgery
Tearful collector gives testimony at Knoedler trial
Eleanore De Sole said she went into a “shaking frenzy” when she read that another work sold by Knoedler was suspected to be fake
Top US collector takes the stand in Knoedler trial
Domenico De Sole bought a fake Rothko from the gallery in 2004
Who is really to blame in the Knoedler fakes case?
Lawyers for the collectors and the gallery go head-to-head as one of New York’s biggest art world scandals goes to trial
Lawyers, funds and money: How litigious is the art world?
And is litigation in the art world on the rise?
Artist’s copyright versus curator’s freedom of expression: The wider legal significance of the Beuys case
The estate of Joseph Beuys has brought the Museum Schloss Moyland to court over photographs of Beuys' performance art
New tax on asset gains for overseas investments could hit UK collectors
Rules change for non-domiciles
Khmer sculpture handed back to Cambodia
An attempt to smuggle it was thwarted in the US
Why the Indianapolis Museum of Art will no longer buy unprovenanced antiquities
Moratorium will prohibit purchase of antiquities after 1970
Comment: why an art market clean-up would be a clear-out
In 2007 the creative industries consultant noted that the “insider” aspect of the contemporary art market and hierarchy of knowledge and status that it creates was a significant part of its attraction
As US museums face mounting legal issues, an annual conference explores what to do with whistleblowers and dodgy donors
Recent corporate scandals have raised concerns that American charities should be examining their ethics policies
It is time major US museums stopped the illicit collecting of antiquities: the trials and the consequences
Following trials of Giacomo Medici, Robert Hecht, and Marion True
UK forwards new law to fight the illicit trade of antiquities
It is now an offence to handle an object if you know that it was illegally removed from a site anywhere in the world after 2003
Francis Bacon’s heir dies
Solicitors for John Edwards’ estate deny that his lover has inherited the art
An Italian archaeologist pleads for professionals to gather information from farmers and from those living near ancient sites
The integrity of most archaeological sites in Italy has been compromised by extensive illicit excavations, which have caused the loss of an enormous quantity of archaeological information
Mark Stephens on new UK anti-seizure law: “The actions of the British government and the Royal Academy are morally reprehensible”
A lawyer’s comment on the RA's 'From Russia' exhibition and the laws that were pushed through to protect it
Interview with Mark Stephens on censorship: a lawyer’s view
The co-founder of Stephens Innocent law firm discusses the limits of art
Archaeological reforms needed in source countries: Reward the finder, excavate faster, keep what is important but allow a licit market
Laws now are obsessed with the objects rather than the sites
Only a legal antiquities market can curb the illegal market which destroys world history
Change needed in the face of a growing market