ARTINFO - Egon Schiele’s notorious Nazi-looted "Portrait of Wally" has had a dramatic run in New York, having been seized by federal authorities after being loaned to MoMA for a show in 1997. Now that the decade-long restitution case between the Austrian Leopold Foundation and the heirs of the work's original owner, Jewish collector Lea Bondi Jaray, has been settled, the work has gone on view at another New York institution, the Museum of Jewish Heritage — only this time, with a clear conscience.

ARTINFO - Is the Asian art market experiencing a stronger rebound from the recession than any other art-market sector? There seems to be a very strong indication that the answer is yes, or at least that is what the sales figures at Sotheby’s, the world's leading publicly-traded auction house, suggest.

ARTINFO - The Leaning Tower of Pisa is no longer leaning quite so perilously, according to Italian engineers and scientists who say the medieval landmark's ever-increasing tilt has been stabilized. Although the tower will never be brought fully upright — which would diminish its appeal, anyway —  two decades of work by the Committee for the Safeguard of the Leaning Tower has finally solved the 800-year riddle of what was causing the World Heritage Site's mysteriously incline to the north.

ARTINFO - It may be the dead of summer, the doldrums of the academic calendar, but multimedia professors — and potentially artists — have plenty of reason to party thanks to new "fair use" rules issued by the U.S. Copyright Office that allow the legal decryption and projection of excerpts of copyrighted material for educational purposes. In addition to meaning that college students will be treated to a great deal more feature-film content in the future, the changes also serve to clear consciences — or, more to the point, any hints of liability — for art students looking to creatively play with copyright-protected multimedia.