Tag Archives: Art Law

Rethinking Art-Related Disputes: How the Court of Arbitration for Art Plans to Revolutionize Decision-Making Accuracy and Appease the Art Market

STEPHANIE ROSNER—On January 1, 2019, the Court of Arbitration for Art (CAfA) began accepting art-related disputes for review. This step marks the latest development in the formation of the long-anticipated art law tribunal, which formally launched on June 7, 2018 during the Authentication in Art 2018 Congress. Although the CAfA is based in the Hague, […]

Expensive Litigation Leads to the Closure of Art Authentication Services, Leaves Much of the Art World in Limbo

BY BAYLEE SHIENBAUM — On March 6, 2015, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed the most recent case in a stream of high profile disputes over authentication of contemporary art. In Bilinski v. Keith Haring Found., Inc., Elizabeth Bilinski and nineteen other art collectors sued the Keith Haring Foundation […]