Art Resolve’s Annual Lunch 2022
Richard recently attended the Art Reslove annual lunch at which London's leading Art disputes mediators get together to discuss topical issues in the art market. This year's lunch took place at…
Mediate, Don’t Litigate
The last thing most collectors want to think about in the context of their art collections is the unwelcome subject of disputes. Unfortunately, however, problems and disputes in the art…
Some Thoughts on Online Mediation
Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) is not new – it was alive and well long before the Pandemic. However, like many areas of professional and commercial life, Covid-19 has greatly increased…
Spears 500
Richard Clark is quite simply an art law guru. Formerly the head of dispute resolution at Slaughter and May, he developed the specialism twenty years ago and has been in…
Mediation in Art and Cultural Property Disputes
INTRODUCTION In 2006, a bitter dispute dating back to the Swiss religious wars of 1712 was finally and positively resolved. The case, which related to a number of culturally and…