30 December 2019
Europe Dozens of ‘Goyas’ are not by the master’s own hand, claims art historian: The authenticity of dozens of Goya paintings is being questioned by… Read More »30 December 2019
Europe Dozens of ‘Goyas’ are not by the master’s own hand, claims art historian: The authenticity of dozens of Goya paintings is being questioned by… Read More »30 December 2019
Europe Mysterious Museum Theft Recovery. The long-missing shield gifted to Italy’s General Garibaldi has been recovered in Rome: Last week, officers from the operational department… Read More »23 December 2019
Europe Spanish police investigate nuns over religious sculpture that surfaced at Tefaf last month: Spain’s national police are investigating whether a 17th century wooden sculpture… Read More »16 December 2019
Europe The Nazis Purged German Museums of Thousands of ‘Degenerate’ Works. Now an Expressionist Painting Sold by Hildebrand Gurlitt Has Gone Home: A German museum… Read More »09 December 2019
Europe Minister: I’ll stop Magna Carta being sold abroad: An export ban could be placed on the sale of a version of Magna Carta from… Read More »02 December 2019
Europe Half of Shakespeare’s ‘Henry VIII’ was written by another playwright, a new analysis shows: It is widely accepted that Shakespeare worked with an uncredited… Read More »25 November 2019
Europe Recovered: Ring once owned by Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde: Engraved with Greek lettering, a gold ring donated by the Irish poet and… Read More »18 November 2019
Europe Museum Theft: Numismatic thieves also strike at the Museo Civico Archeologico in Castiglion Fiorentino: In the second of two museum thefts reported in Italy… Read More »11 November 2019
Europe ‘£100m works of art’ on loan to Prince Charles are mine, claims US forger Tony Tetro: The works were lent to Prince Charles by… Read More »04 November 2019
Europe ‘Kitchen Cimabue’ sells for €24.1m: A 13th century painting of the Mocking of Christ, found in an elderly woman’s kitchen and attributed to the… Read More »28 October 2019
Europe Christie’s sells £1.5m of art linked to ‘fraud’ financier: Art dealers have raised concerns over a £1.5 million collection of works being offered by… Read More »21 October 2019
Europe Arts Council in the frame for cut of RTE’s money from Sotheby’s art sale: The Arts Council is to get half the proceeds of… Read More »14 October 2019
Europe ‘London’s resilience, creativity and innovation will help us to keep open for the world’: “London is maintaining its position as a global financial capital,… Read More »07 October 2019
We are extremely proud to announce that a member of our Art & Cultural Property Law Group, Azmina Jasani, has been promoted to partner. Azmina… Read More »30 September 2019
Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe After 30 Years, a Stolen Renaissance Masterpiece Returns to Italy With a Show in the Artist’s Hometown: It took nearly… Read More »26 August 2019
Europe Suspended Maltese parish priest arrested for church-related art thefts: A Maltese parish priest has been suspended from his duties pending the outcome of an… Read More »23 September 2019
Europe Maurizio Cattelan Golden Toilet Sculpture Stolen from Exhibition in England: Just a few days after it went on view to the public in England,… Read More »16 September 2019
Europe Leonardo Da Vinci May Have Painted Another ‘Mona Lisa.’ Now, There Is A Legal Battle Over Its Ownership: The “Isleworth Mona Lisa” bears an… Read More »09 September 2019
Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Imagine no graffiti: new regulation to fall on Prague’s Lennon wall: Prague’s Lennon wall, long a symbol of free expression… Read More »05 August 2019
Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Paris court rules against one family’s request for restitution of art seized during WWII: When Claire Touchard entered the Paris… Read More »02 September 2019
Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe London art market braced for no-deal Brexit tax hikes: The London art market is bracing itself for international galleries and… Read More »19 August 2019
Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Monet’s Venetian Doge’s Palace painting blocked from leaving the UK: Arts minister Rebecca Pow placed the temporary bar on the… Read More »12 August 2019
Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe To deal or not to deal: provenance and morality in recent sale at Christie’s: Earlier this month, controversy surrounded one… Read More »29 July 2019
Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Turner’s Walton Bridges heads to Norwich Castle after being saved for the nation: At the London auction, it sold to… Read More »22 July 2019
Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Changes to the Artist’s Resale Right regime in Italy: The Guidelines issued on 1 February 2019 clarified the way in… Read More »15 July 2019
Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Élysée Palace looks for its mass of lost art: Police are investigating the disappearance of artworks from the French presidency… Read More »08 July 2019
Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Ministers block export of 18th century watercolour by “genius” landscape artist: An 18th century watercolour by the artist who John… Read More »01 July 2019
Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Lost Version of Delacroix Masterpiece Goes on View After Being Found in Paris Apartment: French painter Eugène Delacroix did many… Read More »24 June 2019
Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Mass theft of art from East German citizens revealed in new report: A pilot project to assess the scale of… Read More »17 June 2019
Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Picasso Painting Once the Subject of Nazi-Loot Lawsuit to Appear at Zurich Art Weekend: A Pablo Picasso painting that was… Read More »10 June 2019
Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Consultation on the trade in non-elephant ivory launched by government: A consultation into the trade of non-elephant ivory has been… Read More »03 June 2019
Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Hugh Lane art deal brushed with spy tactics: This summer, as they have done four times previously, arts officials in… Read More »27 May 2019
Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Judge dismisses appeal against Simon de Pury in court case over ‘gentleman’s agreement’: Lord Justice Lewison dismissed the appeal at… Read More »20 May 2019
Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Locked out via legal loophole: artists evicted from London studios following ‘administrative error’: Twenty-five London-based artists have been locked out… Read More »13 May 2019
Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Photo London rescinds partnership with Brunei’s Dorchester Collection after protests: Photo London is scrambling to distance itself from a partnership… Read More »05 May 2019
Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Italian prosecutor claims Medieval missal in Morgan Library was stolen from parish church: An Italian prosecutor is pressing a claim… Read More »29 April 2019
Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Search for UK buyer to pay £11.5m for Old Master drawing blocked from export: Young Man Standing was purchased last… Read More »22 April 2019
Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Kamel Mennour to show controversial ‘rediscovered’ Caravaggio in Paris gallery: The painting of Judith beheading Holofernes, somewhat controversially attributed to… Read More »14 April 2019
Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Can the Art World Kick its Addiction to Tobacco Sponsorship?: When it comes to donations, the world’s art museums currently… Read More »08 April 2019
Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Norway Will Return Thousands of Objects to Easter Island That Were Taken by an Explorer More than 60 Years Ago:… Read More »01 April 2019
Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Controversial auction of Hertfordshire council’s art collection sells out for £444,000: An auction of works from the collection of the… Read More »25 March 2019
Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Lyon & Turnbull latest auction house to stop selling rhino horn: It joins Sotheby’s and Bonhams in recently banning the… Read More »18 March 2019
Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Italian scholars unveil Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘only surviving sculpture’: The curators of an exhibition in Florence have this week unveiled… Read More »11 March 2019
Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Singer Sargent painting blocked from export by government in hope of finding UK buyer: Sargent’s In the Austrian Tyrol was… Read More »04 March 2019
Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Faking Hitler: the story behind a sinister market: Family-owned Auktionshaus Weidler perches on a cobbled street that winds uphill to… Read More »27 February 2019
Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Germany Is Returning Artifacts Stolen From a Namibian Freedom Fighter During Its Colonial Rule: The German city of Stuttgart will… Read More »18 February 2019
Europe ‘It’s a Beatle haircut’: historian claims 15th-century portrait is from the 1960s: To the National Gallery, the man depicted in the masterpiece that hangs… Read More »04 February 2019
Europe Banksy tribute to Bataclan terror victims stolen in Paris: An artwork by the British artist Banksy painted as a tribute to the victims of… Read More »28 January 2019
Europe Experts pour cold water on Klimt discovery in Hungary: The unveiling this week of an Art Nouveau plaster relief, said to have been designed… Read More »21 January 2019
Europe The French Burglar Who Pulled Off His Generation’s Biggest Art Heist: Long before the burglar Vjeran Tomic became the talk of Paris, he honed… Read More »14 January 2019
Europe Musée d’Orsay Closes Amid Yellow Vests Protest in Paris: On Saturday, a protest by the Yellow Vests in Paris led the Musée d’Orsay to… Read More »07 January 2019