Martha Lufkin
US imposes import restriction on certain Khmer artefacts
“The pillage of such items from Cambodia is an emergency”
Hector Feliciano seeks $6.8 million from Rosenberg heirs for finding Nazi loot
The complaint demands a 17.5% finders fee for aiding the recovery of stolen artworks
Austria can be sued in the US in claim that it forced Jew to give Klimts after World War II
Austria is not an adequate forum to resolve Nazi loot claim, says California federal court
Knoedler and Seattle Art Museum settle over Matisse lawsuit
In 1954 Knoedler sold picture stolen from Paul Rosenberg by Nazis
Picasso case determines that faith in dealers should be warranted
Court says non-professional buyers do not have to check “provenance”
MoMA legal fees in Schiele suit disclosed
The museum has spent over $250,000 contesting the attempted subpoena of two paintings
Schiele war loot restitution case continues as MoMA attempts to return disputed works to the Leopold Museum
In the interests of future exhibitions, the New York Court of Appeals rules that Schieles on loan to Museum of Modern Art must be returned to the lender then a federal magistrate seizes one of pictures
New York Court of Appeals rules that Schiele paintings must be returned to Leopold Foundation
The paintings are claimed to have been stolen from their rightful owners during the Nazi annexation of Austria
US court returns Steinhardt antiquity to Italy but fails to settle key restitution question
The penalty of lying to customs
Michael Steinhardt is refusing the Italian State’s claim for the return of a fifth-century phiale
The US collector challenges Italy’s law
Calder-inspired mobiles are removed from several gallery gift shops in the US
The Calder foundation cites fears concerning authenticity
Congress can enforce “decency” when making arts grants, US Supreme Court rules
"Avant-gardeartistes remain entirely free to épater les bourgeois," wrote Justice Antonin Scalia, "they are merely deprived of the additional satisfaction of having the bourgeoisie taxed to pay for it"
Return of 1939 World Fair art demanded
A relation of the Polish painter Tadeusz Pruszkowski, who died in 1942, has asked Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, to hand over seven Polish paintings and four tapestries, but the Jesuit Institution says the objects properly belong to it
Co-ownership rejected by Budapest Museum of Fine Arts for alleged war loot
Montreal Museum maintains they bought the Vasari in good faith
Supreme Court justices consider whether decency test for NEA grants is unconstitutional
Instead of raising hopes that they might deal a decisive slap in the face to Congressional limits on artistic expression, the justices gave no clear indication of where they were heading in the case
A brush with the law: The FBI jump on two auction houses, but prosecution is no simple matter
It’s not a crime to sell a fake—unknowingly