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The climate activist who smeared paint near a famous Edgar Degas sculpture has been found guilty of ‘crime against the United States”. On April 27, 2023, Timothy Martin (age 55) and Johanna Smith entered the National Gallery of Art in…

Fort Worth, Texas will not be pursuing the child pornography case against artist Sally Mann and the Modern Art Museum. The issue arose in January when certain pictures by photographer Sally Mann came under fire. The pictures, first taken…

The German federal court made a ruling recently that Birkenstocks do not qualify to be called ‘art’ and hence not protected by the same laws. The case around the status of whether Birkenstocks qualify to be classified as ‘art’, which has…

A New Delhi court has ordered two paintings by artist M. F. Hussain to be seized after they were accused of ‘hurting religious sentiments’. The paintings in question depicted the Hindu gods Ganesha and Hanuman surrounded by naked women.…

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After years of legal battle, a court ruled against the heirs of muralist Thomas Hart Benton in favor of his bank. Before his death in 1975, Thomas Hart Benton authorized UMB Bank in Kansas to take care of his holdings. These included…

After a soup attack on a van Gogh, 3 JustStopOil were sentenced to a ban from protesting in London. On 27th September, three people entered the National Gallery in London and three tomato soups at two sunflower paintings by Vincent van…

As part of bankruptcy proceedings, Boy Scouts of America will auction off its art collection for funds for sex abuse victims. The complete art collection of the Boy Scouts is estimated to be around $59 million. It includes works by…

A man in California was sentenced to 3 months in jail for smuggling an ancient Roman mosaic from Syria. In August 2015, Mohamad Yassin Alcharihi brought in ‘ceramic tiles from Turkey’ worth less than $600. However, in reality, he was…

New York’s Jack Shainman Gallery has accused collector James Hedges of owing almost $300k for selling 19 artworks given to him. The gallery filed a lawsuit on Friday in the Supreme Court of the State of New York. Filed against both…