Disputes
News from the US: Museum acquisitions and sales, refurbishment highs and lows, and fabulous manuscript donations
Nine Modern paintings from the MoMA collection go on sale at Christie’s this month - is it to fund the purchase of the Hirsts at Tate?
Uncertainty in the French capital ensues after Ecuadorian ambassador pulls Pre-Colombian art from Paris salerooms
Pieces were seized from three auction houses, a lawsuit is now pending
Disagreement over possible resurrection of Bamiyan Buddhas
Unesco sends out conflicting press releases
Thailand and Cambodia spar over temple that lies on the border
Thailand closes its border, depriving Cambodian vendors of customers which has led to starvation, while gun fighting has occurred, and tension remains high
Texan collector loses Van Dyck case, dealer judged not fault
Claim against Agnew’s dismissed though the painting ruled not autograph
Collectors sue Agnew’s over Van Dyck and Constable misattributions
The gallery catalogued both works as genuine, though experts made no secret of their ambivalence
Bacon Estate v. Marlborough gallery to go to High Court in January
Litigation may reveal the operations of one of London’s leading galleries and its Liechtenstein subsidiary
Swiss say philanthropist collector is senile and have blocked his foundations, art and money
Legal battle over Dr Gustav Rau’s paintings, which he wants to give to Unicef, and which are on loan to Paris
Antiquities dealer Shelby White included in US Cultural Property Advisory Committee: A fox among doves?
Anger at appointment of collector who imports the very objects the committee tries to keep out
William St Clair makes a rebuttal to the British Museum's defence of its competence to curate Parthenon Marbles
St Clair demands greater candour in the fallout of Lord Elgin and the Marbles' third edition, in which it was asserted that over-cleaning had irreparably damaged the marbles
Bacon vs Bacon: Debate over the authenticity of Cristiano Ravarino's drawings goes to court
The case is particularly difficult given the scarcity of drawings by the artist
Dispute over loans for Khmer art exhibition at Paris's Grand Palais has reached a compromise
Government ministers quarrel over paperwork, but also over the care and safety of 'sacred and symbolic' treasures
Interview with Federico Mayor, UNESCO director general: Surveying the role of UNESCO
“A way of thinking that has visible form”
Federico Mayor, Director General of UNESCO, described the organisation as “Affirming an intellectual and moral solidarity in the mind of humanity” last month
The Art Newspaper surveys the successes and failures of the much criticised organisation