On Wednesday, the US supreme court rejected the claims of Jewish heirs who sought to sue Germany for taking property from its own citizens. The court cited the 1976 Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) for the basis of its unanimous ruling.
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We are delighted to have been advising and supporting Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair for a number of years. At the 2019 edition of the Fair, the Boodle Hatfield Printmaking Prize was launched, followed by a prize giving evening in late February 2020 at which the shortlisted prints were displayed and the winner announced. At the 2020 edition of Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, members of the Art Law & More team selected their ten shortlisted prints for the 2021 Boodle Hatfield Printmaking Prize. Over the coming weeks we are getting to know some of our ten shortlisted artists through a series of Q&As. We are continuing our Q&A series with Karen Cunningham, a printer from New York, who is shortlisted for her series of prints, Chroma Gnomes.
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The sale of an art collection belonging to a beloved art school model and muse has sparked a fight over its legal ownership.
June Furlong (3 June 1930 – 20 November 2020) was a long-time life model for the Liverpool School of Art and Design, Slade School of Fine Art and the Royal College of Art. Among the thousands of artists she posed for were Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, and Lucian Freud who lauded her as “an exotic creature with a deep penetrating mind”.
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Ten hand-drawn maps from the Elizabethan period have been saved for the nation after a Portsmouth museum raised £600,000 to buy them. Drawn using ink and watercolour, the sixteenth-century maps are thought to be the earliest surviving representations of the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588.
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We are delighted to have been advising and supporting Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair for a number of years. At the 2019 edition of the Fair, the Boodle Hatfield Printmaking Prize was launched, followed by a prize giving evening in late February 2020 at which the shortlisted prints were displayed and the winner announced. At the 2020 edition of Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, members of the Art Law & More team selected their ten shortlisted prints for the 2021 Boodle Hatfield Printmaking Prize. Over the coming weeks we are getting to know some of our ten shortlisted artists through a series of Q&As. We are continuing our Q&A series with Yanlong Chen, a printer from China, who is shortlisted for his print, Auspicious Snow.
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The recent national lockdown in 2021 forced many businesses to close their doors again, including museums, galleries and sites of national heritage. But art lovers can now get their cultural fix from ‘Explore the Raphael Cartoons’, the Victoria & Albert Museum’s exciting new online project.
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We are delighted to have been advising and supporting Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair for a number of years. At the 2019 edition of the Fair, the Boodle Hatfield Printmaking Prize was launched, followed by a prize giving evening in late February 2020 at which the shortlisted prints were displayed and the winner announced. At the 2020 edition of Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, members of the Art Law & More team selected ten shortlisted prints for the 2021 Boodle Hatfield Printmaking Prize. Over the coming weeks we are getting to know some of our ten shortlisted artists through a series of Q&As. The next artist in our Q&A series is with David Caldwell, who is shortlisted for his print ‘Surf 2’.
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According to the Art Fund, the spread of coronavirus will force smaller UK institutions to indefinitely close if more help is not provided. Throughout 2020 the pandemic caused prolonged closures and sporadic openings for museums across the world, leaving the cultural sector in a precarious position as we enter 2021.
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An Italian museum did not realise its ‘Salvator Mundi’ painting had been stolen, until police discovered it hidden in the bedroom of a nearby apartment. The Doma Museum collection at the San Domenico Maggiore church in Naples had been shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic when the theft occurred.
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We are delighted to have been advising and supporting Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair for a number of years. At the 2019 edition of the Fair, the Boodle Hatfield Printmaking Prize was launched, followed by a prize giving evening in late February 2020 at which the shortlisted prints were displayed and the winner announced. At the 2020 edition of Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, members of the Art Law & More team selected their shortlisted prints for the 2021 Boodle Hatfield Printmaking Prize. Over the coming weeks we are getting to know some of our ten shortlisted artists through a series of Q&As. We are continuing our Q&A series with Virginia Bridge, a printer based in Bristol, who is shortlisted for her Southbank Series of prints.
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