Bonaire v. Netherlands: Climate Change Impacts on Island Communities’...
Seven residents and Dutch nationals of Bonaire, a Dutch special municipality in the southern Caribbean, have launched, together with Greenpeace Netherlands, a legal action against the Dutch government...
View ArticleA Step Toward Fencing in Aberrant Artistic Appropriation
On 25 January, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York entered judgements against appropriation artist Richard Prince and his co‑defendants Laurence Gagosian, the Gagosian...
View ArticleDouble Glazed: Taking Artists’ Rights Seriously and… Algorithmically
The Cybernetic Milkmaid What would Vermeer (1632-1675) feel if he lived until today when he suddenly discovered that his artistic style could be reproduced by state-of-the-art generative artificial...
View ArticleWhat Next for the Stonehenge Tunnel Scheme?
Stonehenge has been a permanent feature and place-marker on the landscape in Wiltshire for thousands of years. It has also a been a semi-permanent feature of headlines and as a topic on this blog....
View ArticleWill the Real Banksy Please Stand Up!
We know him so well, and yet we know him not at all. Banksy’s iconic images, his famous pranks and his politically-inspired street art are known the world over, yet he remains a shadowy enigma....
View ArticleGerman ‘Advisory Commission’ to be Replaced by an Arbitration Framework
On Wednesday last week, 13 March 2024, the German Federal Government, the Governments of the Laender and the Representatives of the German Municipalities announced that they had agreed on replacing the...
View ArticleProposals to Reform the British Museum Act Continue to Fall Under the Shadow...
The “legislative prison walls” of the British Museum Act In 2022, the then UK Prime Minister (the antepenultimate Prime Minister of recent times) responded to calls for the return of the Parthenon...
View ArticleBridging Cultures and Restoring Heritage: My Journey with the Lost Western...
In the captivating world of art restitution and repatriation, each artefact whispers tales of ancient times and distant lands, waiting to be heard. Among these, the story of the recently repatriated...
View ArticleArt Antiquity and Law – April Issue
The April issue of 2024 Art Antiquity and Law has gone to press: hard copies will be posted out to subscribers next week, and for digital subscribers, the online version should be available via Hein...
View ArticleExhibitions Exploring Overshadowed Histories: Protecting and Correcting...
This article contains descriptions of violence which some readers may find upsetting. In March of this year, the infamous statue of transatlantic slave trader Edward Colston went on permanent display...
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