“Museums are morally obligated to return Nazi-looted art”
Frankfurt’s Staedel Museum has investigated its role in the Third Reich. Its art history expert and provenance researcher Nicole Roth told Deutsche Welle in an interview how she goes about examining...
View ArticleThe Weekend: Copies and Returns
This weekend was pretty quiet art law wise, but there were two interesting articles; one from the Wall Street Journal and the other from Ray Dowd’s Copyright Litigation Blog. The WSJ covers the...
View ArticleUS Supreme Court to Review Nazi-loot Laws
The U.S. Supreme Court asked the U.S. Solicitor General, who represents the federal government in Supreme Court cases, to weigh in on the question of whether Holocaust victims and their heirs should be...
View ArticlePeru Asks Obama to Help With Yale Dispute
The “paper of record” reported today that Peru’s president, Alan García, has made a formal request for President Obama’s intervention in a long-running dispute between Peru and Yale University over the...
View ArticleStolen Degas Painting to Be Sent Home to France
An Edgar Degas painting stolen nearly 30 years ago from a museum in France will be returned by the US government, which recovered the rare artwork shortly before it was to be sold at auction. Via Yahoo...
View ArticleSt. Louis Art Museum Sues US Government
In a highly unusual legal maneuver by a U.S. museum seeking to retain recent acquisition, the St. Louis Museum of Art (SLAM) filed a complaint in federal district court on February 15, 2011 asking for...
View ArticleFBI: Art Criminals Nothing But Mopes
The FBI’s Art Crime Team. Thirteen agents stationed across the United States to investigate everything from art counterfeiting to thefts of cultural objects. The Art Crime Unit was formed after the...
View ArticleWhere’s My Monet?
More than 70 years after it was plundered by the Nazis, a missing painting by Monet that depicts the shimmering blue rapids of the Creuse River has pitted two of the wealthiest and most prominent...
View ArticleU.S. to Protect Foreign Artworks from Seizure
On Monday, March 19, The House of Representatives passed legislation aimed at making it easier for foreign governments to lend works of art to be displayed in U.S. museums, without fear of having the...
View ArticleIs the Law the Law, No Matter Who Enacted It?
What if it was the Nazis and their confiscation of so-called ‘degenerate art’ from Jewish collectors?
View ArticleHow to Recover Stolen Artwork?
When less than 10% of stolen works are found, what can owners do when they are robbed of artworks? When artworks are stolen, they generally end up on the black market and sold to an individual buyer...
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