Judge halts sales of gallery's art
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A judge has halted sales at the financially troubled Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, which is accused of stealing artworks or money from well-heeled clients, including tennis great John McEnroe.
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A federal judge Thursday froze the assets of Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., who was indicted this week on charges of soliciting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes.
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SEATTLE -- A judge has put off a decision on a lawsuit seeking removal of a Ten Commandments monument outside the Everett police headquarters until the Supreme Court rules on two similar cases.
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An exhibit depicting a hanged child at an art fair in the southern Spanish city of Seville has sparked a row between the gallery and local authorities, who demanded it be removed.
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A portrait of President Bush using  monkeys to form his image led to the closure of a New York art  exhibition over the weekend and anguished protests on Monday  over freedom of expression.
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A state lawmaker removed two pieces of art from a Capitol exhibit organized by a group opposed to the death penalty because he found the images inappropriate and objectionable.
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A judge in Houston tried to temporarily halt Russia's planned auction of the most profitable unit of oil giant Yukos.
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Fisk University suffered a setback in its efforts to ease its financial problems when a judge rejected its proposal to raise $30 million by sharing its Alfred Stieglitz Collection of modern art with the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
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A painting held by a German baroness rightfully belongs to the estate of a late Jewish art dealer who was forced by Nazi authorities to auction it off, a federal judge ruled.
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A judge halts an operation that allegedly billed small businesses and nonprofits for "free" trials of Web site services.
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Judge says law violates free speech, orders blocking stopped.
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has turned to the courts to validate its claim to a 1913 Oskar Kokoschka painting sought by Claudia Seger-Thomschitz, an Austrian woman who says it was sold under duress during the Nazi occupation of Austria, The Boston Globe reported. Lawyers for Ms. Seger-Thomschitz contend that there is no doubt that the Kokoschka painting, âTwo Nudes (Lovers),â was sold under duress by Oskar Reichel, a physician who ran an art gallery in Vienna. The Museum of Fine Arts, citing months of research, maintained that the sale in 1939 was voluntary and to another Jew, the Viennese art dealer Otto Kallir. âThe painting was never confiscated by the Nazis, was never sold by force as a result of Nazi persecution and was not otherwise taken from Dr. Reichel,â the museumâs complaint states. Ms. Seger-Thomschitzâs lawyers said they would respond to the suit.
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Fisk University cannot sell any of the 101 works of art &#151; some worth millions of dollars &#151; donated by artist Georgia O'Keeffe in 1949, a judge ruled.
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Russian authorities cancel a London exhibition of paintings over fears the art would not be returned.
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A messy battle with Mass MoCA wanting to uncover an exhibition and the artist Christoph BÃ¼chel wanting to withdraw it.
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When an artist and a museum fall out, the question is, can the museum still show the artist's work?
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A High Court Judge has blocked moves to allow an adult video computer game to be sold in the U.K.