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UK art imports slump as Brexit looms

April 10, 2018

The Art Newspaper - Customs figures just released show what may be the first impact of Brexit on the UK’s art market, but they also reveal that global British exports proved fairly robust in 2017. - read more ...

Judge Dismisses Suit Seeking Picasso Painting From the Met

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February 13, 2018

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NY Times - A judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by the great-grand-niece of a German Jewish businessman that asked the Metropolitan Museum of Art to return one of its most valuable Picassos, “The Actor.”Jud...

Artforum still in ‘lockstep’ with disgraced former publisher

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February 13, 2018

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The Art Newspaper - On Friday afternoon, Artforum released a statement after growing calls for advertisers and readers to boycott the magazine until Landesman is “fully removed” and the publication retracts its...

Judge Rules Developer Must Pay 5Pointz Graffiti Artists $6.7M

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February 13, 2018

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Hyperallergic - The lengthy legal drama surrounding a beloved graffiti spot has finally come to an end. Five years after a real estate developer painted over a beloved stretch of street art, a federal judge has...

The Tax Strategy That Fuels the Art Market That May Be about to End

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November 10, 2017

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Artsy - More art market participants than ever before now use a special tax strategy that enables them to defer paying capital gains taxes on the sale of art, making it an ever-more-important factor fueling art...

Vietnamese Art Has Never Been More Popular. But the Market Is Full of Fakes

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August 11, 2017

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The New York Times - HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — The exhibition at the Fine Arts Museum in Ho Chi Minh City was billed as a triumphant homecoming for works by some of Vietnam’s most influential artists. - read ...

Lawsuit against art historian over fake Rothko settled out of court

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April 12, 2017

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The Art Newspaper - The Las Vegas billionaire casino magnate Frank Fertitta has settled his claims against the Swiss art historian Oliver Wick in one of the ten lawsuits brought against the now-defunct Knoedler...

Van Gogh paintings snatched by mafia back in Amsterdam after 14 years

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March 22, 2017

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DW - Two works by Dutch post-Impressionist Vincent Van Gogh have been returned to the Netherlands after they were grabbed in a mafia heist 14 years ago. The two paintings were unveiled on Tuesday at the Van Gog...

Man charged with vandalising painting by Gainsborough at National Gallery

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March 22, 2017

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The Art Newspaper -The man charged with vandalising Thomas Gainsborough’s The Morning Walk (1785) is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court today. On Saturday (18 March), just after 2pm, Keith Gregory,...

Jeff Koons convicted of plagiarism

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March 15, 2017

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DW - A Paris court ruled on Thursday that the American artist and the Centre Pompidou museum in Paris, which intended to show Koon's sculpture "Naked," must pay 20,000 euros ($21,225) in compensation to the fam...