Legal

The former payroll manager at the Art Institute of Chicago has been sentenced to jail for stealing millions from the museum. Michael Maurello was the longtime payroll manager at the Art Institute of Chicago between 2007 and 2020. Over…

An unnamed French man has won the legal rights to sell an original drawing by the maestro Leonardo da Vinci. The work in question is a sketch of Saint Sebastian tied on a tree – a rare drawing proven to be drawn by the Italian maestro…

A former worker at the Deutsches Museum has been sentenced to prison for stealing 4 paintings from the museum and selling three of them. The unnamed 30-year-old worker worked at the Deutsches Museum between 2016 and 2018. A provenance…

The San Francisco-based Asian Art Museum is planning to take legal action against the architecture firm WHY over ‘inadequate expansion plans”. The expansion of the Asian Art Museum was completed in 2020. It cost around $38 million and…

Memphis citizens continue pressing legal claims that the new art museum on the city’s riverfront violates their rights to private property. At the center of the controversy is the new Brooks Museum of Art, proposed by the Memphis city…

A museum director in Wisconsin could face prison after embezzling money from schools for students with special needs. The accused in question is Heather Wenthold, the director of the Cedarburg Art Museum in Wisconsin. According to the…

Since the initial lawsuit, further investigation found out dealer Lisa Schiff has other claims worth millions pending against her. In May, collector Candace Carmel Barasch filed two separate lawsuits against Schiff, a prominent art…

A U.S. federal court ruled that AI-generated art is not eligible for copyright protection due to lack of ‘human involvement’. In March of this year, the United States Copyright Office made the decision that AI-generated art is not…

Richa Parekh, a former curator at Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, is suing the museum for harassment and discrimination. It was reported this week by WBUR that Richa Parekh filed a civil lawsuit against the museum at the Worcester…

Art collector and investor Leon Black has agreed to pay $62.5 million to the US Virgin Islands, to settle all claims related to his involvement with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey Epstein, a prominent financier at the time, was…