William L. Charron to Participate in NYU’s Third Annual Art Crime Symposium
Pryor Cashman is pleased to announce that litigation partner William L. Charron, who co-chairs the firm’s Art Law practice, will speak at New York University’s Art Crime and Cultural Heritage: Fakes, Forgeries, and Looted and Stolen Art symposium on June 4-6, 2015. Charron will join a roundtable discussion that will outline ways to overcome authenticity issues and the growing problem of fakes and stolen art flooding the global market.
“Art crime is the third-largest criminal enterprise in the world and something that all stakeholders in the industry struggle with,” says Charron. “I am honored to be part of this symposium of thought leaders and industry experts as they aim to address these complex problems.”
Charron joins a distinguished panel of industry insiders who include art historian and provenance research expert Jane Jacob, president, Jacob Fine Art, Inc. and co-founder of the conference; Eleonora Nagy, conservator, three-dimensional works of art, Whitney Museum of American Art; and Spencer Tomkins, president, Spencer Tomkins Fine Art Inc. - a 25-year veteran specializing in American and European post-war and contemporary art.
A regular writer and speaker on art law issues, Charron will be part of an upcoming documentary by producer Jeff Oppenheim called, “Real Fake,” about famed art forger Elmyr de Hory. Charron also presented last year at the Authentication in Art (AiA) Working Congress in The Hague, Netherlands, and authored an article for the New York Law Journal about proposed federal legislation to require certain visual artist resale royalty rights, entitled, "Should Visual Artist’s Resale Royalty Right Be Considered a ‘Copy’ Right?" Charron is a member of the New York City Bar Association Art Law Committee.
With over 50 speakers, the symposium aims to set the standard for the global discussion of art and cultural heritage crimes. For more information about the symposium and to register, please click here.
