A new protocol allows for prosecution of organisations and individuals, putting pressure on art market professionals

Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth gets twenty-six works from the blue-chip Staechelin collection on a three-year loan

Collector George Ortiz speaks up and argues that its ratification will achieve the exact opposite of its declared aims

Our second Art Law Supplement examines cultural property export regulations; the legal loopholes in their international enforcement and the latest proposed solution: the controversial 1995 Unidroit Convention on Stolen and Illegally Exported Cultural Objects. We also deal with art and artists on the edge of society, in articles on censorship and the creations of the mentally ill

Second fair surpasses first in sales for certain subjects

Laws now are obsessed with the objects rather than the sites

Stumbling blocks: attempts to define “national treasure” and abolition of passage of title in “good faith” purchases