Diana Wierbicki

External publications

• 'The Top 75 Art Professionals,' ARTnews – October 23, 2023, recognized 
• 'The Art Basel & UBS Global Art Market Report 2022', co-contributor

• 'New York sales tax case regarding art leasing,' Withers article - May 24, 2022, co-author

• 'New York City repeals rules governing auction houses,' Withers article - May 20, 2022, co-author

• 'Non-Fungible Tokens: A Fiduciary, Tax and Legal Snapshot,' Trust & Estates - April 2022, co-author

• 'U.S. Treasury Identifies Art Market Money Laundering as Area of Concern,' Trust & Estates - February 23, 2022, co-author

• 'Why digital assets are poised to disrupt philanthropy,' Forkast - February 22, 2022, quoted

• 'US Treasury's AML report weighs against increased regulations in art market for now,' Withers article - February 16, 2022, co-author

• 'Standby for more information: New AML regulations governing antiquities trade are on the way,' Withers article - December 17, 2021, co-author

• 'Cutting a Banksy Into 10,000 (Digital) Pieces,' The New York Times - December 1, 2021, quoted

• 'Antiquities trade should prepare for more government oversight,' The Art Newspaper - September 24, 2021, quoted

• 'A Painting or an NFT of It: Which Will Be More Valuable?,' The New York Times - July 23, 2021, quoted

• 'Withers global art team recognized by Chambers 2021 HNW guide,' Withers article - July 23, 2021, co-author

• 'How Naming Rights Became the Art World's Most Controversial Issue,' Town & Country - June 16, 2021, quoted

• 'Biden Targets a Tax Break That Helped Trump Build His Fortune,' Bloomberg - June 2, 2021, quoted

• 'An uptick in art rental appraisal requests,' Withers article - June 1, 2021, co-author

• 'The Art World Has Legitimized Digital Currencies,' Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School - May 18, 2021, quoted

• 'Wayfair update: Florida,' Withers article - May 6, 2021, co-author

• 'Book Reviews: Art Law: The Guide of Collectors, Investors, Dealers & Artists, 5th Edition,' Estate Planning - April 28, 2021 - Book review

• 'You heard NY finalized its budget: What does this mean for the art world?,' Withers article - April 16, 2021, co-author

• 'Domestic Relocation Checklist: Special considerations for art collectors,' Withers article - April 16, 2021, co-author

• 'The Gray Market: Why the New York Art Market Could Be Reshaped by the State's Progressive New Budget (and Other Insights),' Artnet News - April 14, 2021, quoted

• 'Crypto-Art Investors Could Face a Surprise on Tax Day Since NFTs Can Lead To a Hefty Tax Bill,' Insider - April 1, 2021, quoted

• 'Digitization is Transforming the Art Market,' Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School - March 30, 2021, quoted

• 'WTF is an NFT -- and Why Should We Care?,' Town & Country - March 25, 2021, quoted

• 'An Uptick in Art Rental Appraisal Requests,' Trust & Estates - March 24, 2021, co-author

• 'So You Just Bought an NFT. Here's What That May Mean for Your Taxes,' Artnet News - March 24, 2021, quoted

• 'After a Year of Online Innovation Sparked by the Pandemic, the Industry Looks Very Different,' Artnet News Intelligence Report - Spring 2021, quoted

• 'A Note on the US Art Market, Taxes, and the New Political Administration,' The Art Market Report - 2021 edition, contributor

• 'New York Senate proposes new tax on auction sale of art,' Withers article - March 8, 2021, co-author

• 'Dealers Try to Repel Speculators by Making Buyers Agree Not to Flip Their Art. But Can Those Contracts Actually Be Enforced?,' Artnet New - November 18, 2020, quoted

• 'New York State continues to investigate tax evasion in art sales,' Withers article - November 12, 2020, co-author

• 'What Does a Biden Presidency Mean for the Arts? Here's Our Guide to What's Ahead for Trade, Taxes, Small Business, and More,' Artnet News - November 11, 2020, quoted

• 'More Museums to Deaccession Works in Light of Pandemic,' Trust & Estates - October 21, 2020, quoted

• 'Financial Questions Every Art Collector Should Ask (but Often Doesn't),' The Wall Street Journal - October 18, 2020, quoted

• ‘Business as Usual Went Right Out the Window': How Lockdown Forced Auction Houses Into the Future -- for Good,' Artnet News - September 24, 2020, quoted

• 'Art Law: The Guide for Collectors, Investors, Dealers & Artists,' The Practicing Law Institute, Fifth Edition - August 2020, book co-author

• 'Art lawyers get a taste of lasting change,' The Times - July 16, 2020, quoted

• 'Sales Tax Legislation - the Bane of the Art Market?,' Arts & Collections - May 22, 2020, co-author

• 'The Art Market Adjusts: Aggregating resources to lower costs,' Withers article - April 24, 2020, co-author

• 'The Art Market Adjusts: Managing contractual obligations in uncertain times - US and UK,' Withers article - April 17, 2020, co-author

• 'The Art Market Adjusts: Protecting your assets from international creditors - UK and Hong Kong,' Withers article - April 15, 2020, co-author

• 'The Art Market Adjusts: Changes in the work force,' Withers article - April 13, 2020, co-author

• 'The Art Market Adjusts: Artists interacting in new ways,' Withers article - April 10, 2020, co-author

• 'Christie's To Pay Up To $16.7 Million In Tax Violation Settlement,' Forbes - April 10, 2020, quoted

• 'The Challenges the Art Market Faces Navigating COVID-19,' Arts & Collections - April 9, 2020, co-author

• 'The Art Market Adjusts: Temporary relief for cultural institutions under the CARES Act,' Withers article - April 7, 2020, co-author

• 'The Art Market Adjusts: How global art transport and storage businesses are operating during limited mobility,' Withers article - April 3, 2020, co-author

• 'Gallerists eye the future with caution,' Financial Times - April 2, 2020, quoted

• 'The Art Market Adjusts: Charitable donation incentives under the CARES Act,' Withers article - April 2, 2020, co-author

• 'The Art Market Adjusts: Alternate valuation dates for estates,' Withers article - April 1, 2020, co-author

• 'The Art Market Adjusts: The impact of the government's decreased oversight of private sale of antiquities and other artwork,' Withers article - March 31, 2020, co-author

• 'The Art Market Adjusts: Protecting consigned artworks from creditors,' Withers article - March 30, 2020, co-author

• 'The Art Market Adjusts: Guidance for gallery tenants in the US and UK,' Withers article - March 27, 2020, co-author

• 'The Art Market Adjusts: How the art world is quickly adopting the use of virtual viewing rooms,' Withers article - March 26, 2020, co-author

• 'The Art Market Adjusts: Banks loan consideration in times of market dips,' Withers article - March 25, 2020, co-author

• 'The Art Market Adjusts: Insurance implications for fine art collectors and exhibitions,' Withers article - March 24, 2020, co-author

• 'An Artist's Estate Challenge,' Trust & Estates - December 18, 2019, co-author

• 'Will global jitters dull the glitter of New York's Art Gigaweek?,' The New York Times - November 10, 2019, quoted

• 'US-China trade war expands to books and maps as increased tariffs hit art imports,' The Art Newspaper - September 3, 2019, quoted

• 'Trump's tariffs loom large in current Chinese art market uncertainty,' Artsy - August 30, 2019, quoted

• ''Outrageous coup': art world shocked as Boris Johnson suspends parliament,' The Art Newspaper - August 29, 2019, quoted

• 'Why Art World Employment Agreements Are under Increasing Scrutiny,' Artsy - August 22, 2019, co-author

• 'Sotheby's Goes Private: What It Means for the Art Market,' WealthManagement.com June 25, 2019, co-author

• ''Axing' last week's Billions episode's sales and use tax planning with art,' Withers article - May 31, 2019, co-author

• 'Behind the Spotlight of the Met Gala: Insurance Considerations,' Flash Art - May 6, 2019, co-author

• 'The Newest Technological Trend in the Art Market,' Trusts & Estates - April 2019, co-author

• 'Have You Reviewed California's Post-Wayfair Rule Ahead of Frieze LA?,' Withers article - February 7, 2019, co-author

• 'Introducing 'Opportunity Zones': The Trump Administration's New Tax Break for Art Collectors,' Artnet News - January 14, 2019, quoted

• 'Estate-planning strategies for art and collectibles explained,' Trusts & Estates - November 5, 2018, quoted

• 'What art dealers need to know before doing a fair,' Artsy - October 3, 2018, quoted

• 'Art Is seen as a glittering investment. Will new taxes take off the shine?,' The New York Times - September 14, 2018, quoted

• 'Decision on the California Resale Royalties Act could mean more art business,' Withers article - July 10, 2018, co-author

• 'The US Supreme Court Wayfair decision's impact on the art market,' Withers article - June 21, 2018, co-author

• 'Inheriting Art: Beautiful, But Watch Out For These Financial Pitfalls,' Newsday - May 2018, quoted

• 'The Art Market 2018,' Art Basel & UBS - March 2018, contributor

• 'Heightened scrutiny on antiquities collectors,' Trusts & Estates - March 2018

• 'US prosecutors focus on antiquities,' Withers article - February 2018, co-author

• 'How the new federal and New York estate tax exemption could affect your estate plan,' Withers article - January 2018, co-author

• 'Want an alternative to donating art? Open your own museum,' The Wall Street Journal - December 10, 2017, quoted

• 'At auction, billionaire sells Da Vinci painting for a new world record price,' Forbes - November 15, 2017, quoted

• 'Update: Effect of Senate tax proposal on the art market,' Withersworldwide.com - November 10, 2017, co-author

• 'Will the US tax proposal sell out art buyers?,' The Art Newspaper - November 7, 2017, quoted

• 'Art market may lose ‘driving force' as tax plan targets loophole,' Bloomberg Quint - November 3, 2017, quoted

• 'Effect of proposed US tax bill on the art market,' Withersworldwide.com - November 2, 2017, co-author

• 'Would Donald Trump's tax plan be a bonanza for the art world? The experts weigh in,' Artnet News - October 2, 2017, quoted

• 'Investment Entities Owning Property Purchased Outside the United States Face Double Taxation Under Amended New York Law,' Bloomberg BNA Daily Tax Report - July 18, 2017, co-author

• 'When Collectors -- Not Curators -- Dictate Art History,' Artsy - June 29, 2017, quoted

• 'Artwork Loans are in the Midst of a Minimum of $ 5 million in Financing Thresholds (Chinese),' 21st Century Business Herald - June 24, 2017, quoted

• 'When Art Pops in Value...,' STEP Journal - March 2017, co-author

• 'A Museum's Seal of Approval Can Add to Art's Value,' New York Times - October 14, 2016, quoted

• 'Art Auctions and Fair Market Value for Estate Tax Purposes,' American Bar Association Real Property, Trust and Estate Law - September 2016, co-author

• 'New IRS Rule Opens Tax Saving Strategy To Art Collectors,' Forbes - September 21, 2016, co-author

• 'No Strings Attached,' STEP Journal, Volume 24/Issue 7, co-author

• 'New York Sales Tax Settlement Could Change The Way Art World(And Others) Do Business', Forbes - August 9, 2016, co-author

• 'How Art Can Blow Apart Your Estate,' Barron's Penta - June 18, 2016, quoted

• 'The Law Behind New York's Multi-Million-Dollar Art-World Tax Probe, Explained,' Artsy - May 19, 2016, quoted

• 'How Art Collectors Can Stay Out of Tax Trouble in New York,' Forbes - May 10, 2016, co-author

• '10 of the Art World's Most Powerful Lawyers,' Artnet News - April 29, 2016, honorable mention

• 'Transparency and Authenticity,' Deloitte Art & Finance Report 2016, Pg. 148 - April 2016, co-author

• 'A depressed art market: not a bad time to die,' The Art Newspaper - April 1, 2016, quoted

• 'Art's Beauty in a Money World,' China Daily Asia - April 1, 2016, quoted

• 'Art Collectors Discover Irrevocable Trusts,' The Wall Street Journal - March 27, 2016, quoted

• 'Art has become a financing tool which is common in Europe and the US,' Hong Kong Economic Times - March 25, 2016, quoted

• 'Law firm Withers cautions art can be used as money laundering tool,' The Standard - March 25, 2016, quoted

• 'Art draws keen interest from wealthy Asians and regulators alike, says Withers,' Asian Private Banker - March 23, 2016, quoted

• 'Smart Art Mart,' The Peak Hong Kong - March 2016, co-author

• 'Freeports for the Art World,' Art, Auctions & Antiques Report, wealthmanagement.com - February 19, 2016, co-author

• 'Art and death taxes: Not so certain,' InvestmentNews - February 11, 2016, co-author

• 'Tax Free and Art Here,' Franffurter Allgemeine - November 21, 2015, quoted

• 'How do you tell the difference between philanthropy and a tax write-off?,' The Art Newspaper - November 2015, quoted

• 'Art Collectors Find Safe Harbor in Delaware's Tax Laws,' New York Times - October 2015

• 'Auktionshuses smarte salgsmetoder tiltrækker tyve (Auction house of slick sales techniques attracts thieves),' Politiken - May 2015, quoted

• 'Has the Art Market Topped?,' Barron's Asia - May 2015, quoted

• 'The President's Attack on Like-Kind Exchanges,' Trusts & Estates - May 2015

• 'Whose Art Is It Anyway? Toeing the Line Between What's Yours and the Company's,' Trusts & Estates - April 2015, co-author

• 'Want to Avoid U.S. Taxes on $80 Million Warhol? Buy More Art.,' Bloomberg Business - April 2015, quoted

• 'What You Should Know Before Going to Art Basel,' Barron's Asia - March 2015, quoted

• 'Estate Tax Ruling A Boon for Art Collectors,' Private Wealth - November 2014, quoted

• 'A Potential Game Changer for Estate Taxes on Art,' The New York Times - October 2014, quoted

• 'Appeals Court Grants Substantial Discount for Art Interests,' Trusts & Estates - September 2014

• 'Swap Art to Save on Taxes,' The Art Newspaper - July 2014, quoted

• 'The High Taxes On Art Purchases Might Surprise You,' Crain's Wealth - July 2014

• 'Regulations Boost Need for Due Diligence,' Private Art Investor - May 2014

• 'Art Basel in Hong Kong: What to Know Before You Go,' theartcollector.org - April 2014

• 'Wealthy Investors Flock to Fine Art Funds,' CNN - April 2014, quoted

• 'Where the Rich Stash Their Toys,' CNN - April 2014, quoted

• 'Is Global Trend on Artist Resale Royalties Right for US?,' Law360 - March 2014, co-author

• 'White House Announces a Ban on Commercial Trade of Elephant Ivory,' Wealth Management - March 2014, co-author

• 'Like-Kind Exchanges: Changes in the 2013 Federal Tax Make These an Attractive Option for Art Investors in 2014,' Trust & Estates - March 2014

• 'Priceless and Emotional: How to Buy Fabulous Fine Art,' BBC - February 2014, quoted

• 'Collectors and Taxes Section of the TEFAF Art Report 2014,' contributor

• 'U.S. Congressional Resale Royalty Report,' Wealth Management - January 2014, co-author

• 'Lions, Elephants and Birds, Oh My: Objects that Cause Estate Administration Complications,' Trust & Estates - December 2013

• 'Like-Kind Exchanges: Changes in the 2013 Federal Tax Make These an Attractive Option for Art Investors,' Trust & Estates - May 2013

• 'Diana Wierbicki on Elkins v. Commissioner,' Leimberg Information Services, Inc. Estate Planning Newsletter #2085 - April 1, 2013

• 'Art Law: The Guide for Collectors, Investors, Dealers, and Artists,' The Practicing Law Institute, Fourth Edition - 2012, contributor