The New York Times reports that while a federal judge in New York recently dismissed many claims made by Peter Paul Biro, subject of a recent profile by David Grann in The New Yorker, his lawsuit against the magazine will continue.
The latest ruling came down Tuesday. From The Times:
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Artist Raoul Cadet has sued the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Memorial Committee because he says they owe him $25,000 for a statue he completed of the politician, New York’s first African-American congressman. Courthouse News has the story. Read More
Beware of art professors offering to care of your prized artworks. That’s what a Wisconsin woman implicitly warns in a new lawsuit that accuses a retired University of Wisconsin art history professor of offering to store for her Grant Wood painting and then sending it to an auction house to be sold, according to the Courthouse News Serivce. Read More
The Art Newspaper has a think piece today by Laura Gilbert that ruminates on how American artists used to appropriate copyrighted material all the time, and how it seems like it isn’t done any more. Read More
During a shoot, magazine photographers dropped a 2,600-year-old terracotta statue, smashing the $300,000 piece of Nigerian Nok art for good, according to the collector Corice Arman, who is suing Louise Blouin Media in a New York court, the Courthouse News Service reports. Read More
Alice Aycock has requested that a federal judge intervene in the scheduled dismantling of her sculpture “Star Sifter” at John F. Kennedy International airport, a move to create more space for vendors. Read More
The financially troubled Fisk University’s long battle to sell a 50 percent stake in the collection of modern art it received from Georgia O’Keeffe, valued at $30 million, may be nearing a conclusion. The Associated Press reports today that the Tennessee Supreme Court upheld a court decision made last year that approved the sale to Alice Walton’s Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Ark. Read More
Descendants of the famed Parisian art dealer Ambroise Vollard—a champion of vanguard European art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries—are suing Serbia, alleging that its National Museum contains more than 400 works illegally appropriated during World War II, Reuters reports. It’s quite a bounty of material, including pieces by Matisse, Degas and Cassatt. Read More
Dealer Marc Jancou has fired off a new legal volley in his battle against Sotheby’s and artist Cady Noland, filing new papers that allege an additional $20 million in damages for “breach of fiduciary duty,” according to Blouin Artinfo. The new sum is directed at the auction house and, with the $26 million from his initial filing, brings the total value of his lawsuit to $46 million. Read More
