Podcasts by The Art Law Podcast
The Art Law Podcast hosts discussions about topics at the intersection of art and law with art lawyers Steve Schindler and Katie Wilson-Milne and their distinguished guests.
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New Hurdles to Importing Art in the EU from 2023-12-06T05:01
Katie and Steve talk with renowned art lawyer Pierre Valentin about the EU’s new and striking import regulations on cultural goods, including fine art and cultural property, that prohibit the im...
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Returning "The Wounded Indian" Statue to Massachusetts from 2023-11-07T05:01
Steve and Katie talk with their colleague Tom Kline about his client, the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association (MCMA), and its decades-long quest to reclaim the dramatic marble statue <...
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What Can Artificial Intelligence Offer Art Authentication? from 2023-09-06T04:00
Steve and Katie speak with Dr. Carina Popovici, CEO and Founder of Art Recognition, an art and technology startup that uses AI systems to evaluation the authenticity of artworks. They discuss th...
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Do Market Players React to Court Decisions Impacting Art? from 2023-07-05T04:00
Katie and Steve speak with WIPO economists Alexander Cuntz and Matthias Sahli about their recent article, Intermediary liability and trade in follow-on innovation, published in the ...
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SCOTUS Says Warhol Not So Fast: The Limitations of Transformative Use from 2023-06-05T04:00
Katie and Steve talk to Philippa Loengard, copyright expert and Director of the Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts at Columbia Law School, about the much-anticipated Supreme...
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Fashion, NFTs, and Artistic Expression from 2023-04-04T04:00
Katie and Steve talk to attorney Emily Poler, founder of Poler Legal, about the recent lawsuit between the iconic French fashion house Hermès and an NFT creator, Mason Rothschild, over Rothschil...
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The Promise of NFTs for Artists and the Art Market from 2023-03-01T05:00
Steve and Katie speak with Amy Whitaker about her new book with Nora Burnett Abrams, The Story of NFTs: Artists, Technology and Democracy. Amy describes her vision for the promise of NF...
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The Art Seizures of the Spanish Civil War from 2023-01-17T05:00
Katie and Steve talk to Spanish art lawyer and scholar, Patricia Fernández, about the history of thousands of artwork seizures during the Spanish Civil War and the Spanish government’s actions w...
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The 60+ Year Journey of a Stolen Pissarro Painting and Who Gets to Keep It from 2022-12-13T05:00
Steve and Katie speak with appellate litigator David Barrett about the story animating a recent Supreme Court case between the heirs of Lilly Cassirer, who fled Germany in 1939 after surrenderin...
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Some Art Museum-Related Updates from 2022-10-25T04:00
Katie and Steve discuss some recent art museum-related legal(ish) developments, including New York’s new legislation requiring labeling of Nazi-looted art, the AAMD’s long-awaited changes to its...
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Director of the Louvre Arrested and a Dive into French Criminal Law from 2022-09-06T04:00
To open Season 6, Katie and Steve discuss the shocking arrest of Jean-Luc Martinez, director of the Louvre in Paris from 2013 to 2021, related to his involvement in the alleged trafficking of an...
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Russian Sanctions and the Art Market from 2022-07-15T04:00
Steve and Katie speak to anti-money laundering and sanctions expert Paula Trommel of Corinth Consulting about Russian sanctions and their impact on the art market in the short and long term.
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Fractional Ownership of Art: Can Regular People Own a Piece of the High End Art Market? from 2022-06-09T04:00
Katie and Steve speak with Evan Beard, currently Executive Vice President at Masterworks, about fractional ownership of art and new art securitization trends and initiatives, who the issuers and...
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Surprise! NYC Repeals Auction Regulations from 2022-05-10T04:00
Steve and Katie give a brief update on New York City’s recent repeal of its regulations governing auctioneers and auction practices. These regulations provided consumer protections by enforcing ...
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Anti-Money Laundering Update: FinCEN's Surprising Conclusion and the Impact of Russian Sanctions on the US Art Market from 2022-03-28T04:00
Susan Mumford and Chris King, co-founders of ArtAML, return to the Podcast and talk with Steve about the recent release by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ("FinCEN") of its “Study of th...
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Turkey’s Quest for the Stargazer: Part 2 from 2022-03-03T05:00
With Katie on a parental leave, Steve speaks with Herrick Feinstein’s Victor Rocco about his firm’s representation of the Republic of Turkey in litigation brought by Turkey to possess a millenni...
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Skepticism and Optimism Around Art NFTs - Revisited from 2022-01-10T05:00
In a re-release of last June's episode, Katie and Steve speak (again) with digital art and NFT enthusiast Jason Bailey about the sudden rise of NFTs in the art world, what they really are, why t...
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Turkey’s Quest for the Stargazer from 2021-12-02T05:00
Katie and Steve speak with veteran cultural property and art lawyer, Tom Kline, about his representation of Christie’s and Michael Steinhardt in litigation brought by Turkey to possess a millenn...
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How Anti-Money Laundering Regulations are Hitting the Art Market in the United Kingdom and What Participants Can Do to Comply from 2021-11-01T04:00
Steve and Katie talk to Susan Mumford and Chris King, co-founders of ArtAML, about the recent roll out of AML regulations covering art market participants in the United Kingdom, who is implicate...
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Skepticism and Optimism Around Art NFTs from 2021-06-02T04:00
Katie and Steve speak (again) with digital art and NFT enthusiast Jason Bailey about the sudden rise of NFTs in the art world, what they really are, why they have value, and who is interested in...
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Fair Use and Andy Warhol: The Line Between Appropriation, Copying, and Inspiration Is Not Clear from 2021-05-03T04:00
Katie and Steve finally tackle the evolving area of fair use as a defense to copyright infringement with Luke Nikas, attorney for the Andy Warhol Foundation and Partner at Quinn Emanuel. Luke re...
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Moral Rights Around the World: Two Case Studies from 2021-03-29T04:00
Steve and Katie speak with legal scholar Mira Sundara Rajan regarding the international landscape for artist moral rights protections, including the adoption of moral rights laws in the developi...
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New and Impending Art World Money Laundering Regulations from 2021-03-05T05:00
Steve and Katie speak with British art lawyer and General Counsel of Phillips auction house Martin Wilson about European anti-money laundering regulations applicable to art market participants a...
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Goodbye 2020 and some art law updates from 2021-01-08T05:00
Steve and Katie end 2020 with a few updates on past podcast episode topics, including 5Pointz and moral rights litigation, the Painted Bride mosaic mural battle, deaccessioning in Baltimore, and...
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Current Events of Deaccessioning and Cries of Censorship from 2020-10-29T04:00
Steve and Katie discuss the recent deaccessioning controversies at the Brooklyn Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, and Everson Museum of Art in light of the ethical guidelines, new AAMD guidance, ...
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Revisiting the Salvator Mundi by (probably/possibly?) Leonardo da Vinci with Robert Simon from 2020-09-14T04:00
Steve and Katie speak with old master art dealer and scholar Robert Simon about his discovery of the painting Salvator Mundi attributed to Leonardo da Vinci and sold by Christie’s in 20...
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"The Last Leonardo" with Ben Lewis - Revisited from 2020-09-08T04:00
We are re-releasing our podcast with journalist and author Ben Lewis in anticipation of our forthcoming discussion with Robert Simon. We talked with Ben in depth about his book, The Last Leo...
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Copying in 3D: digitizing GLAM collections from 2020-08-03T04:00
Katie and Steve speak with Michael Weinberg, the Executive Director of the Engelberg Center of Innovation Law and Policy at NYU Law School, about 3D digitization of gallery, library, archive and...
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Arts Nonprofits in the Pandemic from 2020-06-01T04:00:53
Katie and Steve speak with Jay Sanders, Executive Director and Chief Curator of Artists Space, a vanguard artist-centered arts nonprofit, founded in 1972 and located in New York City, about the ...
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Art Museums in the Pandemic from 2020-05-11T04:00
Katie and Steve welcome back to the podcast museum director, art commentator, and art historian Max Anderson to discuss what art museums (now closed) are dealing with during the Covid-19 crisis ...
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Moral Rights in Street Art: The 5Pointz Story - Revisited from 2020-03-02T05:00
In this bonus episode, Steve analyzes the recent Second Circuit decision affirming the 2018 decision awarding $6.75 million to the artists of 5Pointz, whose works were whitewashed and torn down ...
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Art of the Chase: Inside Art Auctions - Revisited from 2019-12-02T05:00
This month, we are updating and rereleasing one of our most popular episodes, Art of the Chase: Inside Art Auctions. In this episode, we take a close look at art auctions – how they work, their ...
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Arts Organizations Seek Change Via Deaccessioning: The di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art and Painted Bride Art Center from 2019-11-05T05:00
Steve and Katie discuss two recent art world controversies involving small, local nonprofits seeking to raise money through asset divestment. The di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art in Napa Vall...
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How Artists Mess with the Law from 2019-10-01T03:00
Steve and Katie have a wide ranging conversation with art historian and former lawyer, Joan Kee, about the topic of her new book, Models of Integrity: Art and Law in Post-Sixties America. Listen
Museum Controversies: Reputational Concerns and "Offensive" Art from 2019-09-04T03:00
CORRECTION: After the recording of this podcast, the San Francisco School Board, in the face of community protest, reconsidered its decision to remove the George Washington murals from G...
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Recent New York Holocaust-Era Art Cases Come Out Differently from 2019-08-05T03:00
Steve and Katie talk about and compare two recent Holocaust-era art cases decided in New York, one in state court on summary judgment and one in federal court on a motion to dismiss grounds. Bo...
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"The Last Leonardo" with Ben Lewis from 2019-07-01T09:00:01
Katie and Steve talk with Ben Lewis, author of the new book, The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World’s Most Expensive Painting, about the history and ultimate sale by Christie’...
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Art and Financial Crimes from 2019-04-23T04:00
Katie and Steve speak with Laura Patten and Michael Shepard about financial crimes, including money laundering, involving art. They discuss high profile examples of art-related financial crime, ...
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Technologizing Fine Art from 2019-03-04T04:00
In this episode of the podcast, Steve and Katie are in conversation with Jason Bailey, the founder of the Artnome blog and host of the Dank Rares blockchain art podcast about t...
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2018 Art Law Litigation Stories from 2019-02-06T06:00:03
This month Katie and Steve talk about a few important art law cases from 2018 ranging from Nazi looting, to Italian fisherman discovering an ancient Greek statue, to the risks catalogue raisonné...
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The Promise of Blockchain: Transparency in the Art Market from 2019-01-07T11:00:22
Katie and Steve speak with Nanne Dekking, the founder and CEO of Artory and Chairman of the European Fine Art Fair, about Artory’s efforts to use blockchain to create a transparent registry of a...
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The Financialization of Art with Philip Hoffman from 2018-12-03T10:00:47
Katie and Steve speak with Philip Hoffman, founder and CEO of The Fine Art Group, about art funds, art financing, and financial guarantees of auctions sales. They also explore how art is perform...
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Artist Series: Aviva Rahmani’s work with VARA, land use and environmental law from 2018-11-08T11:00:53
Artist Aviva Rahmani speaks to Steve and Katie about her artistic practice investigating and using the law. Her current work, Blued Trees Symphony, is a musical and visual art work inst...
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Bonus Episode: Berkshire Museum Litigation Update (It’s not over!) from 2018-10-02T13:00:32
Katie and Steve get an update from attorney Nicholas O’Donnell about the status of the lawsuit he brought on behalf of certain members of the Berkshire Museum for breach of fiduciary duty, among...
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Nazi Looted Art: Legal Remedies and Limitations from 2018-10-01T13:00:10
Steve and Katie discuss the Nazis’ complicated and perverse relationship with fine art with attorney and author Nicholas O’Donnell. Nick is the author of the recent book, A Tragic Fate: Law ...
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Bonus Episode: Is Cake “Art” and Entitled to First Amendment Free Speech Protections? from 2018-07-27T17:10:27
On this bonus episode, Katie and Steve discuss the recent SCOTUS case Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, 584 U.S. ___ (2018). In this case, a baker claimed his Fi...
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Art, Censorship and the First Amendment from 2018-07-02T14:00:12
On this month’s episode, Steve and Katie dive into the charged topic of censorship. With guest Professor Amy Adler they talk about government and non-government attempts to censor art, what the ...
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Bonus Episode: Berkshire Museum Deaccessioning Begins from 2018-06-11T19:12:06
Katie and Steve give an update on the first round of auction sales as part of the Berkshire Museum’s court sanctioned deaccessioning plan. They discuss the results of the sales, the museum’s cur...
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Art of the Chase: Inside Art Auctions from 2018-05-10T14:00:27
On this month’s podcast, we take a close look at art auctions – how they work, their place in the art market and the rules and regulations that confine/define them. At the same time, much about th...
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Bonus Episode: Berkshire Museum Update, Settlement Approved from 2018-04-18T18:44:44
Katie and Steve update listeners on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s decision approving the settlement reached between the Attorney General and the Berkshire Museum, which allows the Muse...
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Moral Rights in Street Art: The 5Pointz Story from 2018-04-09T14:00:35
On this month’s podcast we discuss the non-economic moral rights of artists in the context of the famous 5Pointz aerosol art mecca in Long Island City, Queens that was torn down in 2013. Steve and...
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Bonus Clip: Jamie Martin on Wine Fraud from 2018-03-19T17:27:50
Scientist Jamie Martin talks with us about wine forger Rudy Kurniawan, his work investigating wine fraud and the similarities between wine and art.
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What Can Science Tell Us About Art? from 2018-03-12T14:06:48
On this month’s podcast we discuss the role of science in fine art. Specifically, what can science tell us about a work of art’s origin and authenticity? Can science help us discover fakes and fo...
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Bonus Episode: Update on the Berkshire Museum Saga - the AG and Museum Agree to Sales from 2018-02-26T16:35:09
Katie and Steve give listeners an update on the Berkshire Museum deaccessioning controversy. The Massachusetts Attorney General and the Museum have reached an agreement, pending approval by the Su...
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Can a Museum Sell Your Art?: The Berkshire Museum Saga As a Cautionary Tale from 2018-02-12T14:00:04
In our first full length episode of the podcast, we discuss the controversy over the Berkshire Museum’s efforts to sell off 40 valuable works of art from its collection and the controversies around...
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The Art Law Podcast: conversations at the intersection of art and law from 2018-01-19T13:44:46
Art lawyers Katie and Steve introduce themselves and their new podcast.
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