Art Law
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The Firm's Art Law lawyers negotiate, litigate and advise clients on the full range of legal issues that arise concerning works of art, the art market and the art world. We represent artists, individual and institutional collectors, galleries, dealers, auction houses and museums in high-profile, high-stakes matters.
Our lawyers have deep knowledge and wide experience in the specialized law of art and are equipped with the full resources of a top international law firm. In addition to our partners who deal with art-specific areas of the law, we draw on the skills of lawyers in a variety of other areas for our art clients, including alternative dispute resolution (arbitration and mediation), banking and secured transactions, bankruptcy, intellectual property and information technology, tax and trusts and estates.
Among the art-specific issues we regularly advise on or have litigated/arbitrated are:
antitrust law in the art market
appraisals
art dealers’ duties and rights
artists’ estates and foundations
auctioneers’ duties and rights
authentication committees and catalogues raisonnés
authenticity disputes
bankruptcy, creditors’ rights and security interests in works of art
consignment agreements
copyrights in works of art and reproductions of works of art
criminal trial and grand jury subpoenas
cultural patrimony laws, regulations concerning the import and export of art, and international cultural treaties
defamation and product defamation concerning works of art and their provenance
donor restrictions on use or display of donated works
droit moral and the Visual Artists Rights Act
gifts, acquisitions, dispositions and loans
international tax treaties affecting cross-border art transactions
internet sites concerning art and art sales
joint ownership of works of art
loans of artwork to museums and exhibition agreements
looted and confiscated works of art from the Nazi era
lost and stolen works of art
misappropriation of artwork and design
the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
new media agreements
non-fungible tokens (NFTs)
private dealer sales
private treaties
Our lawyers have deep knowledge and wide experience in the specialized law of art and are equipped with the full resources of a top international law firm. In addition to our partners who deal with art-specific areas of the law, we draw on the skills of lawyers in a variety of other areas for our art clients, including alternative dispute resolution (arbitration and mediation), banking and secured transactions, bankruptcy, intellectual property and information technology, tax and trusts and estates.
Among the art-specific issues we regularly advise on or have litigated/arbitrated are:
antitrust law in the art market
appraisals
art dealers’ duties and rights
artists’ estates and foundations
auctioneers’ duties and rights
authentication committees and catalogues raisonnés
authenticity disputes
bankruptcy, creditors’ rights and security interests in works of art
consignment agreements
copyrights in works of art and reproductions of works of art
criminal trial and grand jury subpoenas
cultural patrimony laws, regulations concerning the import and export of art, and international cultural treaties
defamation and product defamation concerning works of art and their provenance
donor restrictions on use or display of donated works
droit moral and the Visual Artists Rights Act
gifts, acquisitions, dispositions and loans
international tax treaties affecting cross-border art transactions
internet sites concerning art and art sales
joint ownership of works of art
loans of artwork to museums and exhibition agreements
looted and confiscated works of art from the Nazi era
lost and stolen works of art
misappropriation of artwork and design
the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
new media agreements
non-fungible tokens (NFTs)
private dealer sales
private treaties