Bankruptcy

Laurene Powell Jobs's non-profit buys San Francisco Art Institute and its $50m Diego Rivera mural

After years of financial problems, the troubled institution will enter its next chapter with help from the Apple dynasty

Time for the UK to adopt US-style rules on holding artists' funds

Primary-market sale proceeds should be held on trust so artists are never left out of pocket by a gallery's insolvency, writes IP and art lawyer Jon Sharples

Former San Francisco Art Institute campus may house a future new art school

Bay Area philanthropists and arts leaders seek to continue the tradition of an art school at the old SFAI campus—great news for the Diego Rivera mural there

Company behind 'immersive' Van Gogh exhibitions files for bankruptcy

The Canadian company is also responsible for projection-based Monet, Kahlo, Klimt and Disney displays

Fate of $50m Diego Rivera mural uncertain as campus of bankrupt San Francisco Art Institute hits the market

The real estate assets of the oldest art school west of the Mississippi are now on the market in order to resolve its debts

San Francisco Art Institute files for bankruptcy

After years of financial troubles, one of the Bay Area's leading art school's faces the potential liquidation of its storied archive

Activists including the artist Nan Goldin protest bankruptcy settlement shielding the Sackler family from prosecution

Demonstrators plant cardboard tombstones outside a New York courthouse to call attention to Purdue Pharma’s role in deaths from the opioid painkiller Oxycontin

Former Paddle8 chief executive sued for $1m

Following the online auction house's bankruptcy filing, creditors claim Valentine Uhovski mismanaged funds from online sales and charity auctions

Bankrupt 'playboy' James Stunt attempted to borrow £40m against works of art claimed to be forgeries

The former husband of heiress Petra Ecclestone owes £5m in debt including an unpaid sum of £3.9m to Christie's

Fight for Detroit’s art begins

Director of art museum in bankrupt city steels himself for long battle as price tags are put on greatest works

Comment: The immorality of using Detroit’s art to bail out bankrupt city

Even if it proves legal to sell paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, there is a moral case to consider

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Debt and legal troubles force Berry-Hill Galleries to file for bankruptcy

Christie’s is owed $14 million and there are over 100 other creditors

Bank debtors’ Van Gogh withdrawn as fake

While there is some support for its attribution, doubt still lingers