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The Los Angeles Dodgers recently won an unbelievably entertaining and memorable World Series Championship over the Toronto Blue Jays. The final out occurred in Game 7 when Alejandro Kirk hit into a double play after breaking...more
In the wake of the Louvre heist, art collectors are rethinking how to secure and legally protect their collections. Tarter Krinsky & Drogin Art Law Group Chair Leila Amineddoleh explains the importance of key strategies for...more
Theft of physical artworks and jewels is a vivid reminder that while creative value can be timeless, its embodiments are not. That contrast frames a core truth about intellectual property (“IP”): its relative permanence rests...more
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) recently announced the closure of its Benin Kingdom Gallery and the return of two bronzes from its collection to the emperor of Benin, the Oba, in Nigeria. This decision underscores the...more
Sadly, victims of art theft are often left without recourse because they simply cannot locate their stolen property. However, sometimes luck has other plans. Stolen Art in a Children’s Movie- Artworks reemerge in the most...more
Last week it was announced that a Roman mosaic, long thought lost to the ravages of war and the whimsy of wartime looting, finally returned to its rightful home in Pompeii. The racy piece of ancient décor, depicting a pair of...more
This client alert reports on recent developments in the Trump Administration and a shifting legal landscape that may affect the operations, funding, and tax-exempt status of cultural institutions such as museums, galleries,...more
In February, the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) announced that it would withdraw its lawsuit against the Manhattan District Attorney (DANY) for declaratory judgment that the museum was the rightful owner of a Greco-Roman...more
In 2023, the New York County Manhattan District Attorney’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit, or NYATU, had seized a statue in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art for repatriation to the Republic of Türkiye. CMA acquired...more
Building Bridges – Rev. Al Sharpton’s Blueprint for Harlem’s Museum of Civil Rights In this very special episode of The Lobbying Insider Podcast Host Zack Fink sits down with the renowned Reverend Al Sharpton to discuss the...more
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
You may have seen the headlines about the Orlando Museum of Art’s challenge to a donor’s $1.8 million gift that was given with “strings attached.” The donor intended to fund the acquisition of new works of art, but the...more
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
Vince McMahon, co-founder of World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., has resigned, a WWE representative confirmed Friday, a day after a former employee claimed McMahon forced her to have sex, trafficked her to other executives...more
Revised regulations to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) went into effect January 12, 2024, setting a five-year deadline for museums and Federal agencies to consult and update inventories of...more
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
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
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
I haven’t used the words “shopped,” “purchased,” and “PacSun” in the same sentence for more than a decade. So now, in an existential daze, I’m wondering how I arrived at the “Thanks for shopping PacSun, here is your order...more
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
(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
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
A new lawsuit seeking to seize a painting by Van Gogh currently at the Detroit Institute of Arts for the show “Van Gogh in America,” a painting which the plaintiff alleges was unlawfully taken has brought back into focus the...more
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
Question - I am the FD of a public sector body. We run a museum which does not charge for admission and operates at a deficit, however its contribution to local culture and ability to attract visitors to the area make it...more