Thursday, May 28, 2009

"Why should local diggers break their backs and risk arrest when they could stay home and make a cottage industry out of copying ...?"

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The LAT's Mike Boehm has more on UCLA's Charles Stanish, author of the article I mentioned here .

Warhol Decision

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The NYT's Randy Kennedy reports that "a federal district judge in Manhattan said Tuesday that a class-action lawsuit charging frau...

"'People have to be practical. They have to be pragmatic. They have to stop being righteous"

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Move over, Hugh Davies . I think I have a new favorite museum director. Judith Dobrzynski calls attention to an interview Maxwell Anderso...
Wednesday, May 27, 2009

"A case study ... in how not to make and implement hard decisions in the face of an economic crunch"

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Felix Salmon on " The Sorry Story of the Rose Art Museum ": "Where are we now? Well, the Rose is essentially dead — its donor...

Update on the Brodsky Bill

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The NYCBA Art Law Committee recently sent a letter to Assemblyman Brodsky, regarding his proposed museum deaccessioning bill . You can read...

Raw Deals

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A reader sends a link to an odd story from the Central Pennsylvania Patriot-News, under the headline Raw deal: Pennsylvania artwork now unde...

"Copyright in the US is automatic on fixation of a creative work .... Registration is not necessary for basic copyright protection"

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Rebecca Tushnet notes a Washington Post story that "confus[es] 'registration' with 'copyright' almost every single tim...
Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Deaccessioning as Settlement Tool (UPDATED)

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Judith Dobrzynski reports that the National Gallery of Art "has just agreed to transfer the ownership of a painting on view there, Cha...

Symbolism

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Friend of the Barnes Evelyn Yaari responds via email to my post last week wondering what difference it would make if the Delaware River Po...

"When people say, 'You can't sell the art,' I say, 'OK, can we close five departments on campus?' Tell me what I can do. This is the problem"

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The Jerusalem Post had a lengthy piece this weekend on Brandeis and the Rose Museum, which "had come to embody the legacy of the postw...

"Institutions of every stripe are scrambling for survival in a recession draining them dry of funds"

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The Toronto Star had a piece this weekend on the deaccessioning debate. I'm quoted as follows: "So an argument exists against an ...

Let's Go to the Videotape

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Bloomberg's Philip Boroff has more on collector Gregory Callimanopulos's lawsuit against Christie's (mentioned earlier here ). ...
Friday, May 22, 2009

"We are absolutely at a point in this economy where these sort of things have to be on the table"

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Tamar Lewin in today's New York Times : "Brandeis University said this week that it would suspend payments to the retirement accou...

Minor Sale

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The Art Market Monitor notes that one of the works involved in Halsey Minor's dispute with Sotheby's -- a Childe Hassam painting ...

Sold (UPDATED)

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Two of the three Eakins paintings -- or, as I like to think of them, works which, having fallen under the aegis of a museum, were held in th...
Thursday, May 21, 2009

Still Fighting

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The Philadelphia Bulletin reports that " opponents of moving the Barnes Foundation art collection from Merion to Philadelphia asked me...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

"The treatment of consignment in bankruptcy has often been described as mystifying"

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Another good art-law related student note: Hilary Jay, " A Picture Imperfect: The Rights of Art Consignor-Collectors When Their Art D...

Art Theft Recs

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R.A. Scotti, author of the recently published "Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa" (see here ), recommends som...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Bid Battle

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Bloomberg's Philip Boroff reports that "Gregory Callimanopulos, a shipping magnate and collector, said in a lawsuit filed Friday i...
Monday, May 18, 2009

"The Rose, as we have known it, is closing"

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Geoff Edgers stops by the Rose Museum on the last day of its " final curated exhibtions ."