Law, crime and regulation
Legal cases, stolen art, regulation and tax issues remain important part of the art and antiques sector.
This category ranges from the levy of the Artist’s Resale Right to controversies over fakes and forgeries.
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Appliance of science: New hallmarks scheme for contemporary bronzes launched to fight fakes
16 April 2018To address the increasing number of fakes, The Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS) has launched a new digital ‘hallmark’ for editioned bronzes.
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Proposed EU cultural goods bill ‘unworkable’ say trade bodies
16 April 2018Book dealers seek change to 250-years-old clause in proposed import licensing law.
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ATG Letter: Seven reasons the ivory ban is ‘flawed and ill-conceived’
16 April 2018MADAM – Having read the government (Defra) statement on the UK ivory ban (ATG No 2337), it is obvious that far from offering clarity, it is flawed on the following points:
ATG Letter: ‘Heading towards unworkable fudge’
16 April 2018MADAM – I am alarmed at the government’s apparently poor understanding of how the trade works and its relationship with collectors and venerable institutions.
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Stolen gramophone discovered in France will be returned to rightful owner
13 April 2018A stolen gramophone will be returned to its owner next week after an Antiques Trade Gazette article alerted the buyer to the theft.
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Export bar placed on Rubens’ rare 17th century painting of an African man
10 April 2018A rare 17th century depiction of an African man in Europe by Peter Paul Rubens has been placed under a temporary export bar in an attempt to keep it in the country.
De minimis exemption becomes the new battleground in antique ivory sales ban
09 April 2018The art and antiques trade is calling on the government to re-think its planned restrictions on the sale of antique items containing small amounts of elephant ivory.
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Test case for Nazi-looted artworks rules in favour of Holocaust victim's heirs on Egon Schiele pictures
06 April 2018A judge in a test case in international restitution law relating to Nazi-looted artworks has ruled in favour of a Holocaust victim's heirs rather than an art dealer who owned the pictures.
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IVORY BAN – industry leaders react: “We will draw the government’s attention to the ban’s inconsistencies”
03 April 2018An idea that began life in 2015 with a Tory government manifesto pledge for a total ban on the UK trade in ivory has finally taken shape, though not as draconian as originally pitched and not yet set in legislative stone.
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Ivory sales ban launched in UK by Environment Secretary Michael Gove
03 April 2018An ivory sales ban has been launched by the UK government including a number of exemptions for certain items containing ivory.
DEFRA spokesman says expect response to ivory consultation ‘shortly’
02 April 2018The Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) is expected to publish a response to the ivory ban consultation this month.
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Spanish dealers arrested after antiquities from Libya seized
30 March 2018Antiquities looted from archaeological sites in Libya have been seized in Spain by police and two art dealers have been arrested.
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Nazi-looted Cranach painting returned to rightful heirs to be sold at Christie’s Old Masters auction
27 March 2018An Old Master portrait missing for nearly 80 years has been returned to the heirs of Dutch banker and art collector Fritz Gutmann. They now plan to auction the picture with an estimate of $1m-2m.
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Expert panel discusses controversial ivory trade ban at The Courtauld Institute
26 March 2018How an ivory ban proposed by government will actually work is the focus for the art market, according to a panel of experts at The Courtauld Institute.
‘Money-laundering’ limit to apply to all transactions
26 March 2018The art and antiques trade is facing further money laundering regulation from the European Union.
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Kensington Church Street dealers ask trade to be vigilant following thefts
26 March 2018A thief who targeted Kensington Church Street dealers is believed to have struck again.
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ATG letter: Let’s have discussion without bias on antiques ivory issue
26 March 2018MADAM – I was open-mouthed in disbelief to see again opinion discussed as fact when the ivory issue was aired on national television (ATG No 2334).
ATG letter: Shame of early ivory purchases
26 March 2018MADAM – I have pieces of antique elephant tusk ivory that I collected unconcerned about the (now well-known) conservation problems.
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Dalí’s iconic lobster telephone is export barred
23 March 2018Arts minister Michael Ellis has placed a temporary export bar on Salvador Dalí’s Lobster Telephone (White Aphrodisiac).
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Derbyshire antiques centre suffers smashed window for second time in a year after car careers off road
21 March 2018Heanor Antique Centre has called on its local council to re-think the road layout on Ilkeston Road, where it is located, after its window was smashed as a second car crashed into the shop in just over a year.
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