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• Ten of the most incredible art heists of the modern era (5/30/08)
• Iraq's Babylon bears scars of US-led invasion (5/23/08)
• Who owns antiquity? (5/23/08)
• US museum lawyers discuss pressing issues (5/23/08)
• German gallery tries to block sale of works by Joseph Beuys (5/23/08)
• Asian antiquities expert arrested (5/13/08)
• Art restorer points own finger (5/13/08)
• Cleveland museum to return artifacts to Italy (5/13/08)
• Spain launches legal war on US 'pirates' (5/9/08)
• Auction of contemporary Chinese art upsets artists who thought works destined for museums (5/8/08)
• Resurrecting the Baghdad Museum (5/8/08)
• Russian art market shaken as 800 paintings revealed as fakes (5/8/08)
• The circle of art - "beautiful paintings should be seen by people" (5/6/08)
• Dying dog called a work of art (5/6/08)
• You can't have your stuff back (5/6/08)
• Bestseller Elizabeth Lowell illuminates the shadowy world of art fraud (5/5/08)
• Can the West do more to protect Iraqi antiquities? (5/5/08)
• Judgment sought for umpire art (5/5/08)
• Online art fraud nets growing number of victims (5/4/08)
• Justice at last for L.A. muralist Kent Twitchell (5/4/08)
• Iraqi expert accuses West over antiquities trade (5/2/08)
• Police seize $100 million in Latin American antiquities (5/2/08)
• Authentication lawsuits challenge Basquiat, Boetti estates (5/2/08)
• Former teacher passed off fake pots as work of famous artists (5/2/08)
• Copper caper: thieves nab art to sell for scrap (5/2/08)
• Nazi-plundered Matisse, Seurat in Israel museum have no owners (5/1/08)
• Revealed: Royal family of Qatar is buyer of world’s most expensive Hirst (5/1/08)
• Artist Kent Twitchell settles suit over mural (5/1/08)
• Artists catch head lice for show (5/1/08)
• An argument not to return artifacts (5/1/08)
• Syria gives Iraq back treasure seized at border (4/30/08)
• Chicago sculpture returned, but artist not happy (4/30/08)
• Why does the press seem to be rooting for an art-auction crash? (4/30/08)
• London's Parliament Square - a public mess? (4/30/08)
• Austrian Supreme Court rejects Bloch-Bauer heirs' appeal for sixth Klimt (4/30/08)
• Rauschenberg sues artist for selling his trash (4/28/08)
• Iraq war thwarts loans to Louvre (4/28/08)
• "Gross Clinic" disposals: Why is this "Cowboy Singing"? (4/28/08)
• Thinking about The Gross Clinic (4/28/08)
• Tamayo’s ‘Trovador’ is again up for sale (4/27/08)
• Malevich heirs reach settlement with Stedelijk Museum (4/25/08)
• Painted into a corner no longer (4/24/08)
• Russian centerpiece in the middle of Sotheby’s dispute (4/24/08)
• Philadelphia Museum of Art seals Eakins deal (4/24/08)
• Ancient Afghan oil paintings discovered (4/24/08)
• Ups and downs of Los Angeles arts funding (4/24/08)
• Abortion art, possible hoaxes, and academic freedom (4/23/08)
• Yale threatens to ban Shvarts’ art project from show (4/23/08)
• Arts institutions feeling impact of ailing economy (4/23/08)
• Baghdad culture fights an uphill battle (4/23/08)
• London dealer misled by the Art Loss Register forced to return paintings (4/21/08)
• The art of authentic forgery - Israel v. Oded Golan et al. (4/21/08)
• The needle in the sea - fighting the looters of China's underwater treasure (4/21/08)
• Row in UK over resale right grows (4/21/08)
• 'Due diligence' just a ruse? (4/21/08)
• Dispute rages over Austria's looted art (4/21/08)
• Art museums still struggle with provenance issues (4/21/08)
• An art censored? We think not (4/21/08)
• Yale to cancel controversial 'abortion art' exhibit unless student admits it's fiction (4/21/08)
• Architects and confidentiality agreements (4/21/08)
• Needed: tax breaks for UK art donors (4/21/08)
• Pre-Raphaelite painting of Arthur returns - temporarily - to Britain (4/20/08)
• An exhibition to die for—literally (4/20/08)
• Dealer Salander loses fight to control his family's finances (4/20/08)
• Art revealed as fiction at Yale (4/18/08)
• Opinion: We should behold the spoils of war (4/18/08)
• Guggenheim Bilbao says its finance director embezzled $775,000 (4/18/08)
• Graven images: Art in Iraq (4/18/08)
• Randolph College and opponents seek bond money after art sale delay (4/17/08)
• More on Yale and Peru (4/17/08)
• Judge orders escaped art dealer returned to N.J. (4/17/08)
• Jeweler Esmerian fights Merrill to stop `reckless' N.Y. auction (4/15/08)
• Trash or treasure? Debate rages about Rauschenberg's art (4/15/08)
• Exhibition exposes modern tragedy of Babylon (4/15/08)
• Prof ensnared in case of Pissarro looted by Nazis (4/14/08)
• Daniel Moore case gets its fourth judge (4/14/08)
• A menagerie of Matisses? Zoos sell animal art (4/14/08)
• Why high art didn't make it on the Vegas strip (4/14/08)
• Is Goya masterpiece just a colossal mistake? (4/14/08)
• Smuggled cultural relics returned to China (4/13/08)
• Curator, artist resign from Scottish arts body over lion sculpture (4/13/08)
• Avant-Garde art collection to be split among all 50 states (4/12/08)
• Freud painting 'will set record' (4/12/08)
• 'Missing' fraud art goes on show (4/11/08)
• A new study tallies the impact of Illinois’s diminished arts funding (4/11/08)
• Guggenheim Vegas to close (4/11/08)
• Art museums and federal earmarks (4/10/08)
• Japan’s mad cow ban nearly ensnares Hirst artwork (4/9/08)
• Sikh armor withdrawn amid protest on $32 million sale (4/9/08)
• NYC Arbus photo auction canceled amid lawsuit over earlier sale (4/9/08)
• Nude art causes students to lose cash in newspaper-backed contest (4/8/08)
• Rothko kin sue to transfer his remains (4/8/08)
• David Hockney donates to the Tate and says more artists should do the same (4/8/08)
• Show's cancellation a rare case of artists advocating censorship (4/7/08)
• Business-like arts a failure, says entrepreneur (4/7/08)
• Fisk to appeal order on art collection (4/7/08)
• At odds over art (4/7/08)
• The firestorm over private museums (4/7/08)
• Art or lewd graffiti? Battle looms as Los Angeles gives giant painting the brush off (4/3/08)
• Australian art suspect assessed for drug problem (4/3/08)
• “A quantum leap” for Australia (4/3/08)
• Student files federal lawsuit against art teacher for censoring religious drawing (4/2/08)
• France to cut red tape, provide free loans to revive art market (4/2/08)
• Postmortem rights of publicity: The federal estate tax consequences of new state-law property rights (4/2/08)
• 'Drunks' pull off $500,000 artwork heist in Australia (4/1/08)
• Purveyors of Marilyn Monroe memorabilia get favorable ruling (4/1/08)
• The art of stealing art (3/31/08)
• Art casualties from Tibet to Cambodia find an eager market (3/31/08)
• British Museum and Africa's stolen artefacts (3/31/08)
• Custody battle rages over ancient artifacts (3/31/08)
• Time to reconsider title insurance for fine art? (3/31/08)
• Day of the remains (3/31/08)
• Art and history clash in San Francisco (3/30/08)
• Hitler owned painting now in British National Gallery (3/30/08)
• Art and the Nazis, times two (3/29/08)
• San Francisco Art Institute halts exhibition showing killing of animals (3/29/08)
• Courthouse's bold art draws a mixed verdict (3/29/08)
• Guardis seized by British police following request from Italy (3/27/08)
• Battle of the Black Swan - dispute over sunken ship involves US firm, Spain & Peru (3/26/08)
• Looking for owners: exhibition on art stolen in France opens (3/26/08)
• Pakistani art collector regains rare paintings (3/26/08)
• Austrian minister calls for clarity on 'looted' art allegations (3/26/08)
• Finn breaks off Easter Island statue's ear (3/26/08)
• African art in European museums should be returned to Africa (3/25/08)
• Judge cites man's threatening call for refusing bail in art-fraud case (3/25/08)
• Francis Bacon's vulture painting may fetch $70 million in N.Y. (3/25/08)
• £254m battle of the Black Swan (3/25/08)
• Opponents urge Barnes Foundation judge to reopen move case (3/25/08)
• U.S. indicts seven for selling fake Picassos, Warhols (3/24/08)
• LA residents protest mural depicting Latino stereotypes (3/24/08)
• Deep divide - Ilisu Dam will destroy ancient site of Hasankeyf and flood 200 Kurdish villages (3/23/08)
• Raiders of Solo's lost art (3/23/08)
• Art forgery operation broken up by FBI and Spanish police (3/21/08)
• Outrage at cartoons still tests the Danes (3/21/08)
• Philadelphia City Cultural Fund grants arts groups $2.1 million (3/21/08)
• Halcyon Gallery sues artist for breach of contract (3/20/08)
• Public access v private ownership - in defense of immunity from seizure (3/20/08)
• Gardner getting new tips in search for stolen art (3/19/08)
• Conference on looted artifacts opens at new Acropolis Museum in Athens (3/19/08)
• Insurance for war loot claims (3/19/08)
• Whitney Museum to receive $131 million gift (3/19/08)
• Animated repatriation: Disney art returns (3/19/08)
• Monet, Rodin among masterpieces stolen near Paris, AFP says (3/19/08)
• Bogdanos claims antiquities smuggling funds Iraqi extremists (3/18/08)
• Art of the steal - the unraveling of the Salander-O’Reilly Gallery (3/17/08)
• Frederick Hart sculpture Ex Nihilo - once subject of lawsuit - becomes a ballet (3/17/08)
• Akron investor's biblical artifacts being auctioned online (3/17/08)
• Artifacts being sold don't include most valuable items (3/17/08)
• Clandestine miners arrested for damaging Chinese archaeological site (3/17/08)
• US court ruling keeps location of shipwreck treasure secret (3/15/08)
• Artist defends video-game exhibit censored by Rensselaer (3/13/08)
• Why we like art less when its price goes down (3/13/08)
• Dutch restitution committee returns Toorop painting to heirs of German Jew forced by Nazis to sell (3/13/08)
• California professor and holocaust expert involved in art restitution controversy (3/13/08)
• Robert Rauschenberg sues fellow artist for selling works RR threw in trash (3/13/08)
• Dutch establish Cultural Emergency Response fund (3/12/08)
• Woman staking a claim to stolen Courbet dies (3/11/08)
• Looting continues at archaeology site in Ibb - officials turn blind eye (3/11/08)
• Spoils of war in peaceable Sweden (3/11/08)
• Vienna's Leopold Museum under fire over looted art allegations (3/11/08)
• Curator ferried damaged relics from Baghdad (3/11/08)
• O’Keeffe Museum to stand down in battle with Fisk over art collection (3/10/08)
• Preserving history - a report on a conference at Cardozo (3/10/08)
• Another plan to save Stonehenge falls through (3/7/08)
• Who really owns looted art? (3/7/08)
• An ancient Apollo statue landed in Cleveland and touched off an international outcry (3/7/08)
• Court decision: Fisk can keep Stieglitz collection, subject to no-sale and must-exhibit stipulations (3/7/08)
• Museum to show stolen Munch art (3/5/08)
• 'Collar and Bow' statue draws a suit (3/5/08)
• The arts of the campaign trail (3/5/08)
• Accusations, depositions: Just more fodder for art (3/4/08)
• Inflated art appraisals cost U.S. government untold millions (3/4/08)
• Why museums shouldn't offload art (3/4/08)
• American files suit demanding German museum return art stolen by Nazis (3/4/08)
• Display of alleged Nazi-looted art causes stir in Austria (3/4/08)
• The thief and the collector (3/3/08)
• Iraq's legacy of looted treasures is revealed (3/3/08)
• Ban Chiang controversy called into doubt by early modernist work (3/1/08)
• Artist Rauschenberg sues over 'art' taken from his trash (2/29/08)
• Untouched by Nazi hands but still perhaps tainted if sale forced (2/28/08)
• Massachusetts auctioneer finds Nazi-looted art to be a headache (2/28/08)
• Latest damage to antiquities on Temple Mount (2/28/08)
• Arizona high school students want museum director disciplined for destroying their diorama (2/28/08)
• Auctioneers and dealers slug it out at MoMA (2/27/08)
• US-China cooperation urged to stop trade in relics (2/27/08)
• Riding to rescue vital record of English medieval knights (2/27/08)
• British Museum and army team up in move to rescue Iraq's heritage (2/27/08)
• Why "de-accessioning" is a very bad idea (2/27/08)
• Tempelsman sculptures return to Italy (2/26/08)
• £1.4m art sale to fix leaking roof (2/26/08)
• British army to assist at cultural sites in Iraq (2/26/08)
• Lawrence Salander seeks job to help his N.Y. gallery (2/26/08)
• Thai antiquities in U.S. may be stolen (2/25/08)
• Times column exacerbates Yale-Peru negotiations (2/25/08)
• Yale & the lost treasure of Machu Picchu (2/24/08)
• PBS interview with Italian culture minister (2/24/08)
• Plunder goes on tour (2/24/08)
• Who owns history? (2/24/08)
• Special Master assigned to oversee artist Daniel Moore case (2/23/08)
• Modigliani scholar faces trial for fraud (2/23/08)
• Was Swiss art theft a kidnapping case? (2/22/08)
• Art that vanished in WWII turns up in Massachusetts auction (2/22/08)
• Greece promises fall opening for much delayed Acropolis Museum (2/22/08)
• Wal-Mart sues Icelandic artist (2/22/08)
• The problem with privately funded museums (2/22/08)
• Fisk chief says fiscal woes are near end (2/22/08)
• Modigliani scholar faces trial for fraud (2/21/08)
• The problem with privately funded museums (2/21/08)
• Heirs of Curt Glazer react to decision of Basel City Council denying return of Nazi-looted art (2/21/08)
• Seven Questions: A Reformed Stolen-Art Dealer Tells All (2/21/08)
• Supreme Court of Japan finds Mapplethorpe not obscene (2/20/08)
• German treasure hunters claim to have found Amber Room (2/20/08)
• Oldest oil paintings found in Afghanistan (2/20/08)
• Italian police recover dozens of looted artifacts (2/20/08)
• Stolen art on display in a search for owners (2/20/08)
• Stolen art found in car park (2/19/08)
• New York museum disposes of its star attraction: the Rockefeller rooms (2/19/08)
• Court battle over O'Keeffe art starts (2/19/08)
• Two stolen paintings recovered in Switzerland (2/19/08)
• Art theft and the realities of its perpetrators (2/18/08)
• Why is it so easy to steal art in Europe? (2/18/08)
• National Endowment for the Arts budget cuts should be met with outrage, not complacency (2/18/08)
• Swiss police find paintings stolen in Zurich art heist (2/18/08)
• Federal probe of Mingei museum puts focus on disputed pieces in collections (2/18/08)
• A rich market for Russian icons, and their counterfeiters (2/17/08)
• The art of stealing (2/17/08)
• Audit of Miami-Dade's Art in Public Places program reveals missing artwork, poor maintenance, improper procedures (2/17/08)
• Gaps in Apollo statue's history make it a focus of debate (2/17/08)
• Art of making money: How does a dead fish sell for £12m and who's writing all the cheques? (2/16/08)
• Organized crime likely behind Swiss art heist (2/16/08)
• US files action to forfeit Basquiat painting worth $8 million (2/15/08)
• Reward beats risk for art thieves (2/15/08)
• The art of restitution (2/15/08)
• Lost but not forgotten (2/15/08)
• Missing Basquiat art reappears in NYC (2/15/08)
• Shocked Swiss museums reconsider security after major thefts (2/15/08)
• Monet painting in Cologne museum found to be forged (2/15/08)
• Artist charged with manslaughter over sculpture deaths (2/14/08)
• Fisk University in denial (2/14/08)
• Art Institute resolves claims for fake Gauguin (2/14/08)
• Brown and Putin withdraw their patronage as Russian loan show opens (2/14/08)
• China overtakes France as third most important art market (2/14/08)
• Danish papers reprint Muhammad cartoon (2/13/08)
• List of notable art robberies (2/13/08)
• World's greatest art heists (2/13/08)
• Bare walls, soft security where art hung (2/13/08)
• Thai antiquities resting uneasily (2/13/08)
• Stolen art will be hard to sell (2/12/08)
• £84m paintings stolen in 'spectacular' Swiss raid (2/12/08)
• Frisking Fisk: Parsing O'Keeffe's angry letter, and what should happen next (2/12/08)
• At Zurich museum, a theft of 4 masterworks (2/11/08)
• The auction of Getty images appears to be stalled (2/11/08)
• Russia creates online database of Nazi-looted art (2/11/08)
• Judge rules against Fisk University's plan to share its art collection (2/11/08)
• Does everyone steal cultural objects or only Europeans? (2/11/08)
• How to sell a £26 million artwork in 80 seconds (2/11/08)
• Finders, keepers - have too many antiquities been returned? (2/10/08)
• Russians reveal hoard of 46,000 art treasures stolen by Nazis (2/7/08)
• A Warhol surfaces and is headed for court (2/7/08)
• Lawyers suggest process to retrieve art from Salander-O'Reilly (2/7/08)
• Final Bush budget proposes slashing public broadcasting, NEA funding (2/7/08)
• Lawsuit filed on misuse of artist's name (2/6/08)
• Maier Museum trial could be delayed (2/6/08)
• White House proposes increase for Smithsonian (2/6/08)
• Gallery sues for return of stolen Warhol portrait (2/6/08)
• Creative piracy: the paintings of Russell Connor (2/5/08)
• Photographs and derivative works (2/5/08)
• Christie's, Sotheby's offer record $847 million art (2/5/08)
• Plan to boost California's arts budget dies in committee (2/5/08)
• Painting at center of ownership fight raises specter of family's Nazi past (2/4/08)
• Tax scheme Is blamed for damage to artifacts (2/4/08)
• UN vandals spray graffiti on Sahara’s prehistoric art (2/3/08)
• Swedish museum, family dispute painting (2/3/08)
• Artist's widow fights to save husband's work (2/3/08)
• NYC artist uses dead animals in art (2/3/08)
• A common thief does not obtain ownership of stolen goods, and it is no different when the thieves are the Bolsheviks (2/2/08)
• Feds paint picture of art intimidation in Chicago (2/2/08)
• Towers risk vandalizing heritage sites across the country, Prince Charles says (2/2/08)
• Italy lends the Getty a bounty of Berninis (2/2/08)
• Art gallery raided in fraud probe; dozens of works taken from River North shop (2/1/08)
• Credit fund SageCrest settles dispute with art gallery lender (2/1/08)
• Danish museum to buy Muhammad cartoons which sparked global riots (1/31/08)
• Attorney General asks judge to delay Fisk trial (1/31/08)
• Art con fake may go back on show (1/30/08)
• Philippe de Montebello announces retirement from the Met (1/30/08)
• Sotheby's 2008 auction, profit estimates cut by stock analyst (1/30/08)
• Does a repatriation request constitute a declaration of war? (1/30/08)
• Federal probe of stolen art goes national (1/29/08)
• Report details Smithsonian business unit’s problems (1/29/08)
• The Russians are right to be nervous if lending stolen art (1/29/08)
• Curtain falls on antiques rogue show as last of family forgers convicted (1/28/08)
• Italy awaits biggest ever trial of tomb robbers (1/28/08)
• Suspect: Saudi collector wanted art (1/28/08)
• Salander-O'Reilly fights eviction from $154,000-a-month mansion (1/28/08)
• Man in Bowers probe says he did nothing wrong (1/27/08)
• Spain's seabed goldmine of treasure ships (1/27/08)
• Cypriot tomb raider describes adventures with metal detector (1/27/08)
• Art museum scandal grows: tax fraud & artifact looting alleged (1/27/08)
• Deceased curator alleged link in smuggling case (1/27/08)
• Museum staff called complicit in accepting illicit antiquities (1/27/08)
• Russia to return art to Germany (1/27/08)
• Now you see it, now you don't - cultural property: past, present and future (1/25/08)
• Antiquities forgeries fool art markets (1/25/08)
• Four California museums raided in Asian looting probe (1/25/08)
• Rescuing ancient citadel offers a beacon of hope for war-torn Iraq (1/25/08)
• US national parks being looted as demand for artifacts increases (1/24/08)
• MFA sues to bolster claim to disputed 1913 painting (1/24/08)
• Bus driver unearths £80,000 hoard of Bronze Age axe heads with metal detector (1/22/08)
• Authorities seek shut-down of renowned Sao Paulo art museum (1/22/08)
• UK Arts Council cuts are long overdue (1/22/08)
• Spoils of war on exhibit at Stockholm museum (1/22/08)
• Heirs of Jewish art collectors pursue works sold in Nazi era (1/22/08)
• Illegal diggers chipping away at Iraq's heritage at thousands of largely unguarded sites (1/22/08)
• Fatimid ewer sells for £220,000 in provincial British auction (1/21/08)
• Russian collectors' heirs want compensation for lost art (1/21/08)
• Objects without borders (1/21/08)
• US and Italian officials seek better collaboration (1/20/08)
• Spain's Law of Historical Memory designed to tear down Franco monuments (1/20/08)
• Authenticating Warhol (1/20/08)
• Miami missing large amount of public art (over $800,000) (1/20/08)
• No 1st Amendment rights while viewing constitution at National Archives (1/20/08)
• Claude Cassirer and Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum spar over Camille Pissarro's Rue Saint-Honore: Afternoon, Rain Effect (1/20/08)
• Footprints of Holocaust in battle for art lost to Hungary (1/20/08)
• Bold theft at Hyderabad museum located in high-security zone (1/19/08)
• Scandal steals spotlight in Greek culture ministry (1/19/08)
• Shelby White to return art Italy claims was looted (1/19/08)
• Chinese antiquities at Royal Ontario Museum under renewed scrutiny (1/19/08)
• Salander, Gallery Agree to Move Art From Homes to Warehouse (1/18/08)
• Orange County airport censors artist's work (1/18/08)
• Florence considers plan to move David (1/18/08)
• Brazil TV chef wanted over art theft (1/15/08)
• Court ruling affects status of Nazi-stolen artworks (1/14/08)
• Stolen works discovered in Glasgow (1/14/08)
• In Spain, a monumental silence (1/14/08)
• Repatriation of the Krater (1/13/08)
• Legal war looms on arts cash cuts (1/13/08)
• Norway increases Munch's `Scream' theft sentences (1/13/08)
• Met forms search committee for director (1/13/08)
• Russia approves UK art exhibition (1/11/08)
• Euphronios' Last Day is Sunday; Italy to Substitute a Jug, Cup and Vase (1/11/08)
• The search for successor at the Met (1/11/08)
• Anonymous donors find their cover blown (1/11/08)
• The Barnes Foundation selects architect for new arts education center (1/11/08)
• Stolen paintings returned in Brazil (1/9/08)
• Saving Afghanistan's art (1/9/08)
• An art donor opts to hold on to his collection (1/8/08)
• What is the right rate of capital gains taxation for art? (1/8/08)
• New tax could hit UK art collectors (1/8/08)
• Stonehenge rescue plan stalls (1/8/08)
• Opponents of sale say Randolph College paintings should be returned (1/7/08)
• Ott questions friends' lawyer's ability to handle Barnes appeals case (1/7/08)
• Art without the artist (1/7/08)
• Funding for NEA is enlightened (1/7/08)
• Woman artist gets death threats over gay Muslim photos (1/6/08)
• Police, art dealer recover 'Fantasia' art (1/6/08)
• Stolen bronze statues worth $1 million sold to a junk shop for $4,000 (1/6/08)
• Restitution roulette (1/6/08)
• Is art an industry or a luxury? (1/4/08)
• Czech art group to face trial for controversial award winning project (1/3/08)
• Race to save Lascaux cave art, prehistoric 'Sistine Chapel' (1/3/08)
• Texas town apologizes for banning nursing mother art (1/3/08)
• Samsung accused of $64m art fraud (1/3/08)
• U.K. passes Art Immunity Order to clear way for Russian exhibit (12/30/07)
• Department of Monumental Copyrights, New York City Division (12/30/07)
• Fragments of an antiquities conspiracy? (12/30/07)
• Financially ailing black school struggles to sell O'Keeffe art (12/30/07)
• Elderly German baroness living in Providence must relinquish painting sold under duress in Nazi Germany (12/29/07)
• Supreme Court finds historic document behind filing cabinet (12/29/07)
• Egypt to copyright the pyramids and antiquities (12/26/07)
• Exhibition back on as law tightened (12/26/07)
• Spanish portrait bought by Prince of Liechtenstein detained in UK (12/26/07)
• Judge rules N.M. museum will stay in lawsuit over O'Keeffe art (12/26/07)
• After legal odyssey, Italy mounts homecoming show for looted antiquities (12/20/07)
• Looted art displayed in Rome (12/18/07)
• Rare find highlights antiquities fears (12/18/07)
• Grand jury to hear art theft case (12/18/07)
• Poussin Sacraments to stay on public display at National Gallery (12/16/07)
• Hamburg show closes after Chinese warriors prove to be fakes (12/16/07)
• Some charges dropped against former curator (12/15/07)
• What a "transformative gift" means to the LA County Museum (12/15/07)
• Western Australian government's $73 million gift to the arts a shocker (12/15/07)
• Legislation to restore benefits of fractional gifts introduced (12/13/07)
• Anonymous painting attributed to Caravaggio (12/13/07)
• Political deal-making expedites Barnes move to Philly (12/13/07)
• Fake warriors 'art crime of decade', say German critics (12/12/07)
• Revealed: Art Institute of Chicago Gauguin sculpture is fake (12/12/07)
• Randolph College taken off accreditation warning (12/12/07)
• Canada delays copyright amendment (12/12/07)
• The counterfeiters: Inside the world of art forgery (12/10/07)
• Sculptor says collector made too many editions (12/10/07)
• Two museums go to court over the right to Picassos (12/9/07)
• Matter's Pollock paintings still raise questions (12/9/07)
• NYCLU represents subway photographer (12/7/07)
• … but Lloyd Webber’s picture is ‘not stolen’ (12/7/07)
• New tax rules for charitable deductions create hurdles to taxpayer philanthropy (12/7/07)
• Fake ROM bomber: ‘I stand behind my artwork and am proud of it’ (12/5/07)
• Hirst's interest in stuffed kittens starts legal row (12/5/07)
• Museum to pay $2.2m to builder who sued (12/5/07)
• Maier art sale opponents win another court victory (12/4/07)
• The urge to destroy art (12/4/07)
• New York's steep rents may cause exodus of artists, study says (12/4/07)
• New NAGPRA proposed rule for human remains (12/3/07)
• New legislation on Greek cultural goods (12/3/07)
• Pollock cache may have been painted after artist's death (12/3/07)
• NY public library under fire for Bush admin photos (12/3/07)
• Randolph College withdraws proceeding dealing with selling, sharing art (12/2/07)
• Progress seen in talks on antiquities (12/2/07)
• Rubens art 'not stolen by Nazis' (11/30/07)
• Moscow's historic architecture endangered (11/30/07)
• Arts education virtually nonexistent in Philadelphia (11/30/07)
• Returning the loot, piece by piece (11/29/07)
• Greek court dismisses case against ex-curator (11/28/07)
• Australia Parliament on guard against MP art theft (11/28/07)
• Israeli artist Yaacov Agam fights the reinstallation of his work at Michigan and Randolph (11/28/07)
• Ex-Getty curator wins legal battle in Greece (11/27/07)
• Italian city rings alarm bells over 1994 art theft (11/27/07)
• Jade sale creates complications for MFA (11/26/07)
• Coronation chair and medieval panels damaged by heating in Westminster Abbey (11/26/07)
• Bank of America will auction Wyeth paintings to help nonprofits (11/26/07)
• Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark's clock (11/26/07)
• National Museum of Iraq to reopen (11/26/07)
• Desert art in danger at Egypt's new tourism frontier (11/22/07)
• Mixed messages from Banksy's publishers over eBay print fraud (11/22/07)
• Lloyd Webber Foundation wins dismissal of Picasso art lawsuit (11/21/07)
• Ex-Bellevue Arts Museum official charged (11/21/07)
• Painting goes from trash to $1 million treasure (11/21/07)
• After Smithsonian loses Oceans gift, board to review donation process (11/21/07)
• Ex-Getty curator is now on trial in Greece (11/20/07)
• Robert De Niro says gallery stole father's paintings (11/20/07)
• What role do museums play at universities? (11/20/07)
• Where are all the women artists at MoMA? (11/20/07)
• Why creative people are putting their work free on the Net (11/20/07)
• Salander, bankrupt gallery, can borrow $630,000, lawyer says (11/19/07)
• Statue forger jailed for art con (11/19/07)
• Swedish museum says its Andy Warhol Brillo boxes are fakes (11/19/07)
• Coin collectors