News

September 2012
IFAR Is in the News IFAR has been much in the news this past year, as areas long of concern to the organization – including forgery, authenticity, legal liability of experts rendering opinions – have captured popular attention.
June 2011
IFAR Journal Wins First Prize Again in 2011 For the third year in a row, the IFAR Journal has won First Prize in its category (scholarly journals) in the American Association of Museums' Annual Publications Contest.
March 2011
Renewed Foundation Support Affirms Importance of IFAR's Art Law/ Cultural Property Website Initiative The Robert Sterling Clark Foundation and Peter Jay Sharp Foundation award additional grants for IFAR's ambitious new Art Law/ Cultural Property Website Initiative.
May 2010
IFAR Journal Wins First Prize -- Again -- in 2010 AAM Publications Contest For the second year in a row, IFAR Journal has won First Prize in its category in the American Association of Museums' annual Publications Contest.
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.