Art Law Day at the Appraisers Association of America’s annual conference is now less than a month away. Held at the NYU Kimmel Center, this year’s event will be held on Friday November 7, 2014. Sullivan & Worcester LLP is excited to be a Friend of Art Law Day this year. The scheduled that was… Continue Reading
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Subscribe to Authentication RSS FeedSullivan & Worcester LLP Pleased To Become a Friend of the Appraisers Association of America Art Law Day on November 7, 2014
Posted in Authentication, Detroit Bankruptcy, Events, RestitutionI’m pleased to announce that Sullivan & Worcester LLP has signed on as a Friend of Art Law Day at the annual conference of the Appraisers Association of America. The schedule has recently been released and registration is now available. Held once against at New York University Kimmel Center, this year’s event will be held on Friday… Continue Reading
Analysis and Views Develop on New York Art Authentication Protection Bill
Posted in AuthenticationAs we reported back in February, the State Assembly and Senate are considering parallel versions of an amendment to the New York Arts & Cultural Affairs Law that would enhance protections for art authenticators by raising the burden of proof and providing for prevailing-party attorneys’ fees. Our view was, and remains, that the law would… Continue Reading
New York Authentication Protection Bill Passes Senate Committee
Posted in Appraisal, AuthenticationThe New York Senate Standing Committee on Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks and Recreation has unanimously endorsed Senate Bill No. S06794. The Committee was no doubt moved by yesterday’s sought-after Art Law Report endorsement. . . . In all seriousness, this moves the bill forward for consideration by the full Senate, in an effort to enact… Continue Reading
Proposed Amendment to New York Arts and Cultural Affairs Law Would Protect Authenticators
Posted in Appraisal, AuthenticationIt was first reported at the Appraisers Association of America’s Art Law Day in November, 2013 that the New York City Bar Association’s Art Law Committee had drafted a proposed revision to New York’s Art and Cultural Affairs Law to address the rights of authenticators. That proposal, publicized a month later, has now become an… Continue Reading
Art Law This Week at the City Bar: “Copyright Fair Use: The Importance of Being Transformative” and “Hot Topics in Art Law 2014”
Posted in Authentication, Consignment, Copyright, Fair Use, RestitutionLooking forward to two great art and law events this week at the New York City Bar, both at 42 West 44th Street. Hope to see many of you there! On Tuesday March 11, 2014 from 6:30-8:30 p.m., Judith Prowda, faculty at Sotheby’s Institute and author of Visual Arts and the Law will mediate a… Continue Reading
Hearing Tomorrow on Baltimore Museum of Art Claims to “Flea Market Renoir”
Posted in Authentication, Litigation, MuseumsJudge Leonie Brinkema will hold a hearing tomorrow morning in Alexandria, Virginia on the Baltimore Museum of Art’s motion for summary judgment to claim ownership to an 1879 Renoir painting Paysage Bords de Seine that the museum maintains was stolen in 1951. Claimant Martha Fuqua filed a motion to strike the BMA’s reply to her… Continue Reading
Flea Market Renoir Battle Focuses on the Hearsay Rule
Posted in Authentication, Litigation, MuseumsThe last remaining claimants for the 1879 painting by Pierre Auguste Renoir, Paysage bords de Seine that surfaced in the possession of a woman who claimed to have found it at a flea market, have filed summary judgment papers seeking final disposition of the case without need of a trial. The Baltimore Museum of Art has… Continue Reading
Proposed Legislation in New York Would Help Shield Authentication Experts from Liability
Posted in Appraisal, Authentication, Knoedler, LegislationAt Friday’s Art Law Day at the annual meeting of the Appraisers Association of America, Judith Bresler gave the keynote address on the topic of the complications created by prosective liability for authentication experts. As prominent cases ranging from the Knoedler forgeries to the decision by the Warhol Foundation and others to cease authenticating works… Continue Reading
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