The unusual move halted a court-ordered auction of around 1,400 objects for the second time in four months

The charges, brought by the office of the Attorney for the Southern District of New York, signal a commitment to pursuing wide-ranging cryptocurrency cases

Susanna Blunt alleges the dealer Benjamin Lumb promised to compensate her for a stolen piece and knocked over several works in a “domino effect”

A former board member wrote to the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James about the legal dispute, though no investigation is currently planned

Virginia Brilliant accuses the dealers of "repeatedly, regularly and constantly making misogynistic, antisemitic, racist and homophobic comments" and more

After almost two years, the case has been dismissed due to a lack of jurisdiction, so the work will remain at the Sompo Museum of Art in Tokyo

The complaint, filed on 3 June by a Dallas-based customer, is the latest problem for the auction house following a major cyberattack

The lawsuit stems from the accidental restitution of the wrong painting in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War

Recently unsealed court filings show 71 works by artists like Basquiat, Twombly and Giacometti were unloaded over a two-year period

It appears the museum’s own employees were unaware of the policy that “parents are free to nurse children wherever”

Nina Sanders claims she was hired as a consultant for the team to “pacify resistance” to the Chicago Blackhawks’ use of a Native American name and imagery

Nearly 50 workers have signed a petition raising doubts over safety in what is the first ever class action against the Vatican

Heirs of multiple Holocaust victims have made claims to the drawing, which a member of the Lehman Brothers banking dynasty bought as a gift for his son

Two giants of the image generation industry rejected copyright infringement claims from artists who allege their work was used to train an AI tool

Stalemate in the dispute over the fate of Miss’s Land art environment in Des Moines, Iowa

A temporary restraining order against the Des Moines Art Center after artist Mary Miss sued to block the dismantling of her outdoor work

Municipal officials recently approved the Des Moines Art Center’s plans to demolish “Greenwood Pond: Double Site”

The firm is winding down its operations globally and will sell off an estimated $250m of art

Denise Lewis claims she was fired “without cause or warning” after she complained about the Museum of Arts and Design's director's alleged use of the institution’s funds for personal expenses during a vacation in Mexico

The case had gone all the way to the US Supreme Court, which last spring ruled in favour of the photographer Lynn Goldsmith

The company that owns the anti-capitalist artist's image is embroiled in yet another legal tussle over representation

He has received a four year prison sentence and been fined €1m for concealing from authorities a massive art collection to avoid paying inheritance tax

Frankenthaler's nephew has accused the foundation, which terminated his board position last spring, of "extensive self-dealing"

The jury could return a verdict in the closely-watched lawsuit as soon as 30 January

The nearly decade-long dispute over Prince's "New Portraits" series has ended with the artist and his galleries ordered to pay the photographers $900,000

John Bonafede, one of the artists who “reperformed” Abramović’s work for the show, claims he was sexually assaulted seven times during its run

Since it was raided in 2022 by the FBI, which seized 25 purported Basquiat works, the museum’s legal and communications costs have surged while public and private support slowed

The decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals leaves the heirs of Lilly Cassirer with few options to pursue their restitution claim

The lists were both partially included in a recent class-action lawsuit and accidentally shared via a public Google spreadsheet

Now that a judge lifted a last-minute injunction, the monument will be gone by the end of the week