Lawyers: Dispute over Van Gogh art in Detroit is settled
Because of the dispute, the museum has been under orders to hold the painting while the court determined who would next get the art.
Watch CBS News
Because of the dispute, the museum has been under orders to hold the painting while the court determined who would next get the art.
A federal appeals court has agreed to hear a dispute over control of an 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh that was recently displayed for months at a Detroit museum.
After a district judge dismissed the collector's lawsuit to force the DIA to return it, judges from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals are granting the collector's request for an injunction.
The painting of a woman with a book, titled "The Novel Reader," is protected from seizure, and the Detroit Institute of Arts can't be ordered to give it up, U.S. District Judge George Caram Steeh said.
A judge heard arguments Thursday over control of an 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh and said he hoped the dispute could be settled without entangling a Detroit museum.
A Detroit museum displaying a 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh as part of a showing of 80 of his works said it shouldn't be pulled into a dispute over ownership of the multimillion-dollar artwork.
The group "Just Stop Oil" said the act was to demand that Britain halt all new oil and gas projects.
Think of the meaning of art as analogous to the meaning of Christmas minus all the materialism and the commercialism. Those who seek to find the pure essence of local art in Detroit for less that $100 may find it in the following.
The paintings of Vincent Van Gogh and Jackson Pollock may seem totally unrelated, but according to a computer scientist at Lawrence Technological University, the artistic techniques of the two famous artists have a lot in common.
