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Meaghan Gragg is a partner in the firm’s Litigation Department and is co-Chair of its Art Law group. She advises artists, art advisors, auction houses, collectors, estates, galleries, museums and non-profits in a variety of disputes and transactional matters involving works of art and the art market, including non-disclosure agreements, consignment agreements, purchase and sales agreements, representation agreements, commission agreements, licensing agreements, loan agreements, catalogues raisonnés, copyright and fair use issues, cultural patrimony issues and other matters.”

Art may be in the eye of the beholder, but art valuation for tax purposes is in the eye of the IRS.

Improper deductions based on inflated art valuations are now in the agency’s crosshairs, part of an ongoing expansion of audit and investigations into charitable deductions for art

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The New York Times reported on Tuesday, November 10, that the Metropolitan Museum of Art elected Candace K. Beinecke as co-chair of its board of trustees, making her the museum’s first female chair.  Ms. Beinecke, the senior partner and former chair of Hughes Hubbard & Reed, will jointly lead the
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On July 29, 2020, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs issued a 150-page bipartisan report that identifies the art market both as the “largest legal, unregulated market in the United States” and a significant weakness in the nation’s sanctions and anti-money laundering regimes.[1]  The Senate Report
Continue Reading Senate Report Documents Russian Oligarchs’ Use of the U.S. Art Market to Launder Money