A dispute over a six-figure Rolex tests how online marketplaces shape value for rare objects.
by Adam Schrader
A database tracking lawsuits, settlements, and voluntary returns of artworks and cultural artifacts.
Urgent Matter’s tracker follows major crimes targeting cultural property, from museum heists and forgeries to activist vandalism globally.
New markets are opening as the art-fair economy adjusts to higher costs and slower top-end sales.
Facing tougher laws, rising costs, and waning support, climate activists are quietly ending the museum protests that once shocked the art world.
A running record of lawsuits shaping the art world, maintained by Urgent Matter.