United Kingdom
- November 17 2022
In 1921, Dutch art historian and Rembrandt expert Abraham Bredius purchased an oil sketch of The Raising of the Cross, which he believed to be by…
United Kingdom
- May 4 2022
The High Court ruled last week that NFTs are now to be considered legal property, marking a significant step forward for victims of NFT theft, who…
United Kingdom
- March 11 2022
“Punk It!”, the first evening sale at Sotheby’s dedicated exclusively to CryptoPunk NFTs (non-fungible tokens), was mysteriously withdrawn at the…
United Kingdom
- January 27 2022
Germany has announced that another Nazi-looted painting will be restituted to the heirs of Jewish dealer Jacques Goudstikker (1897-1940)…
United Kingdom
- January 11 2022
One of the most popular platforms for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), OpenSea, revealed in a blog post last week that the company is now valued at $13.3…
United Kingdom
- January 6 2022
Are the days of art forgers finally numbered? A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool might just provide the answer. Art historians and physicists at…
USA
- December 14 2021
US billionaire Michael Steinhardt has surrendered his collection of antiquities worth US$70 million (£53 million), after a lengthy investigation…
USA
- December 9 2021
Renowned American pop artist Jeff Koons faces an infringement lawsuit for allegedly copying a sculptural stage setting of a serpent wrapped around a…
Turkey, USA
- September 14 2021
A New York Federal Judge has decided that a marble figure which is owned by hedge fund billionaire Michael Steinhardt and which has spent decades on…
United Kingdom
- September 8 2021
The Bank of England, which has its own museum, will no longer display eight oil paintings and two busts connected to the slave trade. Earlier this…