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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a photographer sued Jeff Koons over a painting from 1986, an art thief tagged the artist in an Instagram post of his loot, and Nicolas Cage agreed to return a stolen dinosaur skull.
Lawsuits
In Brief
Museum Sues Wikimedia for Hosting Copyrighted Photos of Its Public-Domain Artworks
On October 28 the Reiss Engelhorn Museum (REM) in Mannheim, Germany, filed a lawsuit against the Wikimedia Foundation for making high-resolution images of public domain artworks from its collection available for download.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a serial brain tissue thief strikes a museum, a suicidal man attacks a Picasso-inspired exhibition, and an art dealer's grandson sues a gallery over a $25 million Modigliani.
In Brief
The Artist Is Pissed: Ulay Sues Marina Abramović
Marina Abramović, the world's only household name performance artist — Shia LaBeouf notwithstanding — is being sued by her former collaborator and lover, the German artist Ulay.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a cow sculpture gets tipped, Warhol prints get ripped, and Lil Wayne's collection gets raided.
News
Allegedly Fake Joan Mirós Trigger Trials in Turkey
On November 20, 2013, an exhibition titled Miró in Istanbul opened at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University’s Tophane-i Amire Culture and Arts Center, but its two-month run was cut short when the objects on view were denounced as fake and it closed on December 20.
News
PETA Sues on Behalf of #MonkeySelfie Macaque
It's the 21st century, and monkeys take selfies. But do they own the copyrights to those images? PETA says yes.
News
Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a trucker took down an Antony Gormley statue, vandals hammered a shiny public sculpture, and a Swiss dealer got in trouble for selling stolen Picassos to a Russian billionaire.
News
Crimes of the Art
On this week's art crime blotter: sculptures by "the Soviet Henry Moore" smashed in Moscow, a Roman altar stolen from a British Museum, and a Chicago museum's Ronald McDonald statue decapitated.
News
Real Estate Developers Sue Oakland Over New Public Art Ordinance
Real estate developers are suing the city of Oakland over a new law that requires them to set aside funds to commission and install public art in new residential and commercial buildings.
Opinion
Poll: Who Is the Bigger Baby, Artist Danh Vō or Collector Bert Kreuk?
This week the ongoing legal feud between the Danish-Vietnamese artist Danh Vō and the Dutch collector Bert Kreuk took another turn toward infantile name-calling.
News
Graffiti Artists Sue 5Pointz Developer for Whitewashing Their Murals
Nine artists are suing Jerry Wolkoff, the owner of the 5Pointz site in Long Island City, Queens, for destroying their murals when his company G&M Realty had the building whitewashed in November 2013.