Qatar has purchased Cézanne’s The Card Players for more than $250 million, the highest price ever paid for a work of art.

The artist Christo wants to stretch fabric over the Arkansas River as part of a massive art exhibition. But now a group of University of Denver law students are joining in on the fight to put a stop to it before it ever starts.

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