Adam Schrader

A summary of recent Urgent Matter coverage, including legal disputes, government records, and international cultural developments.

From Watergate research files to Renaissance engravings, dealers walk through how objects are selected, staged and sold.

Unpaid storage costs and consignment agreements complicated efforts to release works as administrators moved to return them.

The damage was determined to be “minor but significant."

Jesús Hilario-Reyes and Tichacoco have been named as the inaugural recipients of the fellowship.

The records sought pertain to the 1969 theft of paintings by Ben Stahl from the Museum of the Cross in Sarasota, Florida.

The National Culture and Arts Foundation has since revoked the National Award for Arts given to him in 2018.

Neither the artist nor the painting's value was immediately known.