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Allentown Art Museum to Auction Cranach Painting Once Owned by Collector Persecuted in Nazi Germany

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I was proud to advise the Allentown Art Museum, which announced today that it has reached an agreement with the heirs of Henry and Hertha Bromberg concerning Portrait of George, Duke of Saxony by Lucas Cranach the Elder and...more

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Best Practices for Nazi-Era Art Presented at Special Event in Washington

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I was honored to be among the speakers this week at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on March 5, 2024. Convened by the World Jewish Restitution Organization and the U.S. State Department, the event announced the...more

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Lawsuit Seeking to Stop Deaccessioning of Paintings at Valparaiso is Dismissed

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A trial court in Indiana recently dismissed a lawsuit challenging the proposed sale of three works of art by Valparaiso University: Rust Red Hills by Georgia O’Keefe, Mountain Landscape by Frederic Edwin Church, and The...more

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Titleless Tales of the Headless

In August 2023, the New York District Attorney’s (NYDA) Antiquities Trafficking Unit, which specializes in investigating looted artifacts, seized a headless statue valued at $20 million from the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA)...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

The Case of the Missing Head: Cleveland Museum of Art’s Battle Over Bronze Statue’s Origin

No, this isn’t a Halloween-themed piece about the infamous Cleveland Torso Murderer from the 1930s, but an issue that is less sensational but far more contemporary — the quest to return looted art to its rightful owners....more

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Busted: Manhattan Prosecutors Seize an Ancient Roman Bust from the Worcester Art Museum

In 1966, an ancient bronze bust found its way to the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts. Believed to depict the daughter of the Roman emperor, Marcus Aurelius, it was titled “Portrait of a Lady (A Daughter of Marcus...more

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German High Court Rules Painting Will Stay Listed in Nazi-Era Lost Art Provenance Database

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(Germany’s highest court issued a much-anticipated ruling on a challenge by a collector to the listing of his painting in the so-called Lost Art database in Magdeburg, Germany. The Bundesgerichtshof (BGH) ruled that the...more

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Art Exhibitions Get Complicated: When an American Museum Borrows Art from Abroad, Can A Putative Owner Sue in U.S. Court to Claim...

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As we walk through art museums, admiring the paintings, sculptures, and artifacts, we (sometimes) read the little cards that explain each piece and identify who donated or loaned it to the museum. We might not pay much...more

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NY Museums Required to Label the Last Prisoners of World War II

The artworks stolen by the Nazis are the last prisoners of World War II.  – Ronald Lauder, Woman in Gold Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer was a wealthy sugar magnate in Vienna, Austria where his six Gustav Klimt paintings were housed....more

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[Webinar] The Art of Planning for Valuable Collections - January 21st, 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm PT

Join us for a discussion of estate and philanthropic planning for art and other valuable collections. Topics to be covered include: - Collection ownership and management to protect the value of the collection (document,...more

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A Deaccessioning Decision Tree Grows in Brooklyn—Selling Museum Art in Hard Times

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Robin Pogrebin at the New York Times has written an excellent piece on the news that the Brooklyn Museum intends to sell several works from its collection to raise money. The museum explicitly relies on the pandemic-inspired...more

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“Moralistic Preening” and Broken Commitments Under the Washington Principles—Ninth Circuit Chastises Spain for Keeping Nazi-looted...

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit yesterday affirmed the 2019 judgment that allowed the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Museum in Madrid to retain Camille Pissarro’s Rue St. Honoré, après-midi, effet de pluie (Rue...more

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There Is No More Money in the Arts, but Local Governments May Have Governmental Immunity for Sponsoring It

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The Supreme Court of North Carolina recently held in Meinck vs. City of Gastonia that a city’s lease to a non-profit arts group in connection with a downtown revitalization project was a “governmental function”, which...more

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Germany and its Federal States Announce Collective Declaration with Respect to Colonial Artifacts and Human Remains

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Debate has peaked in the last year or so about the treatment and possible restitution of so-called colonial artifacts in Western (i.e., European and North American) museums. The conversation is important for many reasons, but...more

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Conservation Of The Huntington’s Beloved 18th-Century Masterpiece To Happen In Public View

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In recent art world news, a mystery is unraveling at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens (“The Huntington”) right here in the Los Angeles area (in San Marino to be exact). It involves a sharply...more

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Berkshire Museum Tries to End-Run Pending Appeal but Member Plaintiffs Decline to be Bullied

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After four months of silence, the Berkshire Museum suddenly demanded last week that my clients dismiss their still-pending lawsuit over the governance of the museum by claiming that the April decision by the Single Justice of...more

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Augmented Reality In The Art World—A Reinvention Of How We Experience Art?

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In recent art world news, the technology augmented reality (the cousin of virtual reality) has been making headlines in the media these days. Simply defined, augmented reality (AR) technology superimposes a computer-generated...more

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Berkshire Museum Falls Short Of $55 Million Goal To Build Endowment And Close Budget Deficit To Ensure Its Future

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In recent art world news, a Norman Rockwell painting titled “Blacksmith’s Boy—Heel and Toe” (1940) from the Berkshire Museum’s collection sold for $7 million (with buyer’s premium added, the figure is about 8.13 million) to a...more

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Over A Dozen Artworks From Berkshire Museum’s Collection Are Cleared For Sale At Sotheby’s Next Month

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In recent art world news, and as a follow up to last week’s post on the Art Law blog, with legal hurdles now overcome, over a dozen artworks from the Berkshire Museum’s art collection are set to be offered for sale at auction...more

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The Met Unveils New Admissions Policy Requiring Non-New York State Residents To Pay Mandatory Admission Fee

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In recent art world news, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (“Met”) announced last Thursday that visitors will have to pay a $25 mandatory admission fee if they reside outside New York State under a new policy that goes into...more

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Eighteenth Century Masterpiece Painting Missing For More Than A Century Is Hiding In Los Angeles

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An intriguing story recently ran in the Los Angeles Times regarding an 18th century masterpiece painting that has gone missing for more than a century. The mysterious painting seems to have been hiding in plain sight in a...more

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Live from the Oscars! German Cultural Ministry Disparages Possible Inclusion of Jewish Member on Advisory Commission

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The New York Times reports today that Germany will pay for “at least” one more year of the Gurlitt Task Force, which recently concluded its initial term of appointment amidst criticism of the German government’s handling of...more

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French Supreme Administrative Court Rules on the Procedure for Returning Artworks Looted by the Nazis

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After World War II, works of art suspected of having been stolen by the Nazis were listed on a special registry called the Musées Nationaux Récupération (MNR registry), and stored in French museums until they could be...more

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Last Wishes, First Impression: Potential legal issues arise after Munich recluse passes away, bequeathing Nazi-looted art to a...

Cornelius Gurlitt’s notarized will, which did not surface until after his unexpected death this past May, lists the Kunstmuseum Bern in Switzerland as the heir to his vast art collection, which included works by Matisse, Dix,...more

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