NewsJMW Turner
Export bar placed on Turner's masterpiece The Dark Rigi
The watercolour painting, considered one of the artist's finest works, was sold to a private collector in 2006
NewsRembrandt
Louvre bids to buy Rembrandt masterpiece from Rothschild collection in France
The state has deferred the painting's export licence giving the museum 30 months to find the funds
NewsArt market
Leaked document on EU import licensing proposals is deeply concerning, say dealer associations
IADAA and CINOA argue that compromise amendments to contentious new cultural goods regulations are still too stringent and ill-defined
NewsArt market
Owner of £10m Giotto to appeal High Court ruling that painting left Italy unlawfully
Judge finds in favour of Arts Council England, but collector Kathleen Simonis argues Italian laws are incompatible with EU free movement of goods
NewsCultural policy
UK permits Nazi-looted Meissen figure to leave for Japan despite spoliation claim
There appear to be no winners in what the Arts Council refers to as an “extremely unusual” case
NewsArt market
Art exports help to reduce the UK’s trade deficit
Art exports to non-EU countries helped to reduce the UK’s trade deficit by £2.1bn to £6.2bn in the three months to November 2017
NewsArt exports
UK government still seeking Surrealist connoisseur mad about Dalí’s Mae West Lips sofa
Export bar placed on plush piece with asking price of more than £480,000
NewsArt market
Italy relaxes stringent export laws for post-war art
New legislation eases movement of post-war Italian art out of the country, lifts restrictions on photography in state archives
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French government places export bar on €15m Leonardo da Vinci drawing
State has 30 months to buy newly discovered work hailed as a “national treasure”<br> <br>
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Hands off, it’s ours: French buyer refuses to return Joan of Arc ring to UK
Arts Council insists export licence is required for relic of the martyred Maid<br>
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France and Britain prepare for battle over Joan of Arc’s ring
Jewel sold in UK for £300,000 last month has left the country—but did it have an export licence?
NewsAntiquities & Archaeology
Bible museum founders may have illicit antiquities from Iraq
Federal investigators have seized more than 200 cuneiform tablets imported from Israel by the Green family
NewsArt exports
Are Italy’s export laws about to change?
Interest groups are putting up a united front in the hopes of reform
NewsArt exports
Plan foiled to sail off with portrait by Picasso
Spain could claim painting in private collection seized from banker's super yacht
NewsArt exports
Georg Baselitz leads fight against German cultural minister's radical proposals
Monika Grütters faced by "storm of protest" as other artists vow to withdraw works on loan to German museums if export restrictions become law