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The trial between art collector Ron Perelman and insurers who refused his $400 million claim for 5 damaged paintings began on Monday. In 2018, the East Hampton home of Ron Perelman caught fire. The building housed five major paintings at…

The former royal family of Germany and the government have reached a settlement over ownership of thousands of artworks. On Tuesday, Wolfram Weimer, Germany’s newly-appointed Minister of State for Culture, announced that a settlement had…

Two climate protestors who glued their hands to the frame of ‘Sistine Madonna’ in Germany received pardoned from court. On August 23, 2022, the two protestors – a man and a woman – entered the Dresden Old Masters Picture Gallery in…

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…