News

April 2009
IFAR Journal Wins Award in 2009 AAM Publications Contest IFAR Journal has won First Prize in its category in the annual Publications Contest sponsored by the American Association of Museums. 
December 2008
Expanded IFAR Website Offers Two Major New Resources IFAR introduces its redesigned and expanded Website with new resources on Art Law and on Catalogues Raisonnés, years in the making.
November 2007
Gold Medal of Honor from the National Arts Club

IFAR is pleased to announce that it will receive the 109th Anniversary Gold Medal of Honor from the National Arts Club on November 15, 2007.

November 2007
Recipient of Annual PADA Grant

IFAR is the 2007 recipient of the Annual Grant given by the Private Art Dealers Association.

April 2007
Award of Merit for the IFAR Journal

The IFAR Journal, IFAR's signature publication, has won an Award of Merit in the 2007 American Association of Museums' Publications Competition

December 2004
IFAR Receives IMLS Grant for Art Law Website Initiative

The International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR), a not-for-profit organization established in 1969, has been awarded a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), an independent federal grant-making agency, to help transform its existing Website into an information resource for museums, the broader art and legal worlds, and the public.

November 2004
IFAR Helps in Restitution of Nazi-Looted Drawing

The London-based Commission for Looted Art in Europe and the International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR), headquartered in New York, are delighted to announce today the restitution of a drawing attributed to Rembrandt to the heirs of the late Dr. Arthur Feldmann of Brno, Czechoslovakia.

April 2003
IFAR Statement on Iraq

As overseers of an organization which for close to 35 years has been concerned with the authenticity, theft, looting, and protection of art objects and cultural property, IFAR's Board of Directors unanimously approved the following statement regarding the cultural heritage of Iraq at its meeting of April 2, 2003.