2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe UK government announces change to export licensing system: The major change is that a proposed mechanism for a legally binding… Read More »28 December 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe French restitution bill passes final hurdle in parliament: France will return 27 colonial-era artefacts in museums to Benin and Senegal… Read More »21 December 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Treasure, treasure everywhere – Government plans to update Treasure Act: On Friday 2nd December 2020 it is likely that many… Read More »14 December 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Venice Biennale calls on Christoph Büchel to return controversial migrant boat to Sicily: The 2019 Venice Biennale closed more than… Read More »7 December 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Hunt still on for a Van Gogh self-portrait lost deep in a salt mine during the Second World War: The… Read More »30 November 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Jewish collections looted by the Nazis to be examined and traced in new database: A new database that aims to… Read More »23 November 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Jewish collections looted by the Nazis to be examined and traced in new database: A new database that aims to provide… Read More »16 November 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe For the arts in Europe, lockdown feels different this time: Just as cultural life in Europe was learning to adapt… Read More »9 November 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Dispute over Pissarro painting looted by Nazis is back in court: A Holocaust survivor wants to revisit a settlement with… Read More »2 November 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe The Royal Opera House’s David Hockney painting sells for £12.8m at Christie’s amid deaccessioning debate: “The vocabulary of auctioneering and… Read More »26 October 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe After 75 years and 15 claims, a bid to regain lost art inches forward: The judge presiding over perhaps the… Read More »19 October 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Nearly 450 heritage rescue grants announced from UK’s £1.57bn cultural bailout fund: The UK government will give £103m in Covid-19… Read More »12 October 2020

ArtNewsletter Constantine | Cannon Europe Art patrons seek new ways to keep culture alive in a pandemic: Many philanthropists have used the pandemic to redirect… Read More »6 October 2020

ArtLaw Newsletter Constantine | Cannon Europe Ancient sculpture put up for auction in UK to be returned to Iraq: An ancient sculpture is to be… Read More »28 September 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon EuropeWorldUnited States Europe Stolen collection of antiquarian books worth £2.5m recovered from underground store in Romania: A collection of rare books valued… Read More »21 September 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Keeping it in the family: Charles Saatchi’s daughter to open huge London gallery: The 26-year-old daughter of the former advertising mogul… Read More »14 September 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Bailout fail? Fewer than half of museums in England apply for government’s £1.57bn rescue package: According to figures obtained by The Art… Read More »7 September 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Art market will be given more time to register under Money Laundering Directive: Originally the deadline was set for January 2021.… Read More »2 September 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Frank Bowling is locked in a $39.2 million legal battle with his former London gallery: The painter Frank Bowling is currently locked… Read More »25 August 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe How recent anti-racism protests have pushed a longstanding debate about colonial looting in Europe: The conversation around the removal of monuments… Read More »17 August 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Tourist posing with 200-year-old sculpture breaks its toes: An Austrian man has apologized for the damage he caused to a Canova sculpture,… Read More »10 August 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum seeks to recover ancient Egyptian jars before auction: A lawyer for Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum has called on a… Read More »27 July 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon We are pleased to report that Chambers and Partners has ranked Constantine Cannon Art & Cultural Property Team in the top tier “Band 1” of… Read More »20 July 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Sotheby’s to auction £4m restituted Bellotto painting that Jewish retail magnate was forced to sell to Hitler: A painting considered one of Bernado… Read More »13 July 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Coronavirus: Arts sector applauds £1.6bn bailout: Cultural leaders have welcomed an unprecedented billion-pound bailout of the arts, which was hailed as… Read More »6 July 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Paris dealer who sold golden sarcophagus to New York’s Metropolitan Museum charged with fraud and money laundering: The French dealer Christophe… Read More »29 June 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Experts call for regulation after latest botched art restoration in Spain: Conservation experts in Spain have called for a tightening of… Read More »23 June 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Trial of Paris gallery over stolen Picasso works delayed until next year due to coronavirus court backlog: The trial of the… Read More »16 June 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe What is a listed building? The Supreme Court provides clarity: The IAL has been closely following the case of Mr Dill… Read More »8 June 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Research on Gurlitt Trove of art possibly looted by Nazis concludes, offering few answers: One of the most publicised cases of potentially Nazi-looted art began in 2010, when… Read More »1 June 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Supreme Court the final option in Ivory Act case: Friends of Antique Cultural Treasures (FACT) Ltd, a company set up by… Read More »26 May 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Italian museums start to reopen from today after €55bn lifeline from government: Italy’s museums have taken a financial blow over the… Read More »18 May 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Art arbitration panel in The Hague steps up a gear to tackle complex disputes: The specialist Court of Arbitration for Art… Read More »11 May 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe French galleries and ‘small museums’ to re-open in stages from 11 May: Galleries and “small museums” in France could reopen from… Read More »4 May 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Museums wrangle to extend exhibition loans beyond lockdown: The closure of museums worldwide due to Coronavirus has raised the complicated question of… Read More »27 April 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Art galleries in Germany to reopen this week: Last Wednesday, the German government announced that it would begin to lift the country’s lockdown. As… Read More »20 April 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe New York court rules Call of Duty video game as art: A New York judge has ruled that a video game… Read More »14 April 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe British museum set to return sacred artefacts that belonged to indigenous Canadian chief: The Royal Albert Memorial Museum is reportedly planning… Read More »06 April 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Our Response to the Coronavirus Crisis Like organisations around the globe, Constantine Cannon is taking steps to remain fully operational while responding to… Read More »30 March 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Christie’s switches focus to private sales and postpones auctions to deal with coronavirus: Christie’s London office closed at the end of the… Read More »23 March 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Historic, high-value paintings stolen from Oxford college gallery: Three high-value paintings have been stolen in a burglary at Christ Church Picture… Read More »16 March 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Fairs in a time of coronavirus: trepidation turns to relief at a quieter—but not disastrous—Tefaf Maastricht: Trepidation among the 285 exhibitors was palpable… Read More »9 March 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Newly attributed Artemisia Gentileschi painting of David and Goliath revealed in London: Ahead of the first major UK exhibition of the… Read More »2 March 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Italy hands Nazi-looted Renaissance sculpture from the Uffizi to Germany: Italy has handed over to Germany a Renaissance statue that was… Read More »24 February 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe France Returns Nazi-Looted Porcelain to Family: After discovering that 17 Sèvres porcelain pieces in its holdings were looted by the Nazis… Read More »17 February 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Guidance for anti-money laundering regulation published: The new rules (applying the 5th Money Laundering Directive known as 5MLD) took effect on… Read More »10 February 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Certosa di Trisulti and Steve Bannon: The Controversial Lease of a Public Cultural Heritage Site: Certosa di Trisulti is a historic… Read More »3 February 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe ‘Like Noah’s ark’: Polish art collection with chequered history back on show: The fate of the Czartoryski collection has been a mirror of Polish… Read More »27 January 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Van Gogh Self-Portrait Is Genuine, Study Finds, Ending Decades of Doubt: After years of doubts about its authenticity, experts in Amsterdam… Read More »20 January 2020

Art@Law | Constantine Cannon Europe Why do courts lack conviction in art cases?: The collapse of a high-profile case in November surrounding the theft of… Read More »13 January 2020

Europe Collectors linked to controversy over counterfeit Russian artworks arrested in Belgium: Collectors Igor and Olga Toporovsky, who allegedly lent fake works to the Museum… Read More »09 January 2020