Court lets Liz Taylor keep van Gogh painting
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The U.S. Supreme Court allowed  actress Elizabeth Taylor to keep a Vincent van Gogh painting on  Monday, rejecting an appeal by descendants of a Jewish woman  who said she was forced to sell it before fleeing Nazi Germany  in 1939.
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By Associated Press  JACKSON, Miss. - The Mississippi Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a mother and son who lost a lawsuit that claimed Sherwin Williams Co. was responsible for the lead paint that made the boy sick.
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Elizabeth Taylor on Tuesday dismissed tabloid reports that she was being treated for Alzheimer&#039;s disease or was gravely ill.
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Actress Elizabeth Taylor, 72, is said to be coping well despite suffering congestive heart failure.
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A Paris appeals court on Tuesday upheld the acquittals of three photographers accused of invasion of privacy after they took pictures of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed at the scene of their deadly crash.
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Japan's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a collection of erotic photographs by the late Robert Mapplethorpe does not violate obscenity laws, a decision that should allow the sale of the book for the first time in eight years.
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The Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a dispute involving Elizabeth Taylor over ownership of a Vincent van Gogh painting. The painting is claimed by descendants of a Jewish woman who fled Nazi Germany.
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LOS ANGELES The federal government has claimed custody of a Pablo Picasso painting stolen by Nazis during World War Two. The move allows a federal court in Los Angeles to claim jurisdiction in a legal struggle
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A Turner painting which sold for a record Â£5.8m at auction earlier this year is barred from going abroad.
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ONE OF THE brains behind the music industry&#39;s moves to drag old ladies, children and other file-sharers through the courts has just lost a slavery case.
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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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Tomma Abts becomes the first woman painter to win the controversial Â£25,000 Turner Prize.
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Just as the Dutch government was moving to discourage new claims for restitution of art looted during World War II, the heirs of a Dutch Jewish art dealer have filed one of the largest claims to date.
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Actress Elizabeth Taylor has signed a  deal to give Christie's exclusive rights to handle future sales  of her jewelry, art work, memorabilia, clothing and other  personal possessions, the auction house said on Wednesday.
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The Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a dispute involving actress Elizabeth Taylor over ownership of a Vincent van Gogh painting. The painting is claimed by descendants of a Jewish woman who fled Nazi Germany.
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Lord Black, former owner of The Daily Telegraph, won a temporary reprieve yesterday when a US judge dismissed a lawsuit by his former company, which was seeking $1.
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Actress Elizabeth Taylor announced Wednesday that all future sales of her jewelry, artwork, clothing, furniture and memorabilia will be through Christie's, which has already auctioned some of her possessions including the dress she wore to the 1969 Academy Awards.