Tuesday, September 30, 2008

On Hold

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Wired News reports that the House won't be taking any action on the orphan works bill until after the Nov. elections. Apparently they...
Monday, September 29, 2008

Renoir Recovered

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From this morning's New York Times : "Italian police have recovered a Renoir painting that was stolen from a private collection 33...

"Britain's art collections are taking a beating"

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Also via David Nishimura, the Guardian reports : "Details released under the Freedom of Information Act by the National Gallery, the T...

"Amateurs, beware"

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David Nishimura on the Robert Mardirosian conviction: "With top-rank artworks, thieves often find out that it's not easy to turn...
Sunday, September 28, 2008

Orphan Works Act Update (UPDATED)

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It's passed in the Senate. Now on to the House, which, as Photo District News points out , has been considering a slightly different ver...

Genuine Faker

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The U.K. Independent has the latest on famous forger John Myatt, mentioned earlier here and here (and soon to be the subject of a major ...

Embezzlement Suit

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Fruitlands Museum is suing its former deputy director and chief financial officer (and three of her children) for an alleged embezzlement s...

Le Rêve on View

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The Picasso painting that Steve Wynn put his elbow through in 2006 will be publicly exhibited for the first time since the accident in a sho...
Friday, September 26, 2008

"Just as when you sell a painting at Sotheby's, nobody knows what it's worth until the auction is over"

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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke .
Wednesday, September 24, 2008

"Too far, and not far enough"

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Mark Dery on the orphan works bill: " As written, the OWA won’t solve anything. With its impossibly vague talk of 'reasonable comp...
Monday, September 22, 2008

"The easy part is stealing it; the hard part is selling it"

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" Living legend " FBI art-squad agent Robert Wittman retired last week. Stories here and here . Earlier post here . Next chapte...

Catching Up

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Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento points to a couple of stories I missed last week. One : "Thieves have stolen an engraving by Spanish master Fra...

"The greatest and most important earthwork in the world was potentially threatened by a corporation that wanted to make a buck"

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It's Spiral Jetty week over at Tyler Green's place. From today's opener : "The question is: Is Spiral Jetty threatened by...
Friday, September 19, 2008

"Please know that you need to remove our logo and the NFL logo from all images"

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The Washington Post reports on the latest squabble involving sports artists and trademark rights. At her 43(B)log, Rebecca Tushnet has a p...

Nelson-Atkins-Lawsuit

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The Kansas City Star : "The Kansas City Council has interfered with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art ’s ability to use its own real est...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008

"These works belong, properly, in the place where the largest number of people can enjoy and learn from them"

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An interesting student Note in the Notre Dame Law Review on fractional gifts of art (and I don't say that merely because it credits me...

Savage Suit

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From the New York Post : "A prominent art dealer is suing the makers of a movie that portrays him having incestuous three-way sex with...
Tuesday, September 16, 2008

"Morganelli said that he is not looking to target any specific voting demographic by making this effort a part of his agenda"

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The Temple News has more on Democratic candidate John Morganelli, who has made the Barnes battle an issue in the Pennsylvania attorney gen...

Recovery

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Dutch detectives have recovered five 17th-century paintings that were stolen from the Frans Hals Museum in 2002. "The Golden Age wor...
Monday, September 15, 2008

"Anyone with a touch of larceny in his heart cannot but thrill to hear of such feats of expert-foxing legerdemain"

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Terry Teachout on Jonathan Lopez’s “ The Man Who Made Vermeer: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren .” Here is anothe...