Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Sweet and Sour

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Ed Winkleman has an interesting piece in The Art Newspaper calling for the adoption in New York of a droit de suite regime, which would ent...

"There are all kinds of ways the state can support the art world. This doesn't strike me as a very good one"

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Michael Rushton makes a convincing case against Mexico's policy of letting (certain) artists pay their taxes with artwork.

Linkage

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Roman sculptures pulled from auction . Jersey City Museum on the brink . NYCLU opposes proposed rules limiting art sales in City parks. Gui...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010

"We're helping out artists while building a cultural inheritance for the country"

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In Mexico, artists can pay their income taxes with artwork.

Pole Dancing Is Not Art

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N.Y. Tax Appeals Panel Rules.
Monday, April 26, 2010

Linkage

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"Art Finance Partners demands $300,000, plus punitive damages, from Wally Findlay Galleries International, claiming it sold the consig...
Saturday, April 24, 2010

"A park without art is like eating spaghetti without spaghetti sauce"

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The New York Times has a report on yesterday's public hearing on the proposal to limit the number of art-sellers in City parks.

"By most accounts Mr. Young never paid much attention to his finances . . ."

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" . . . and in his last years he became involved in a tangled legal battle with a former manager, Martin Siskind, whom Mr. Young sued f...
Friday, April 23, 2010

" . . . providing merely an equitable basis to permit some copying of the owner’s expression that are not harmful to the copyright owner"

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Raymond Nimmer: Has the worm turned on transformative use?
Thursday, April 22, 2010

Park West Loss

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After a six-week trial, a jury found in favor of the Fine Art Registry in its lawsuit against Park West Galleries. They rejected Park Wes...

"Institutions have to change in order to survive"

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The Atlantic: Are Fine Art Museums the Next Starbucks?
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Twist in the Stolen Rockwell Case

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Tom Flynn reports that Art Loss Register, which acted on behalf of Jack Solomon in his dispute with Judy Cutler over a stolen Rockwell pain...

Linkage

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What are the optimal jurisdictional arrangements for arts policy? What is Justice Stevens's IP legacy ? On quantifying the stolen art ...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Polaroid Collection Update

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The Art Newspaper has the latest on "the last-gasp campaign to stop the sale of works from the Polaroid Collection." Apparently ...

Met-Adams Settlement

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The Fresno Bee reports that the lawsuit by Ansel Adams's son against "the former" Fresno Metropolitan Museum has been settle...
Monday, April 19, 2010

"It was an honest mistake"

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Mike Boehm points out that, on the version of the facts accepted by the trial judge , Stephen Spielberg should never have had to give up hi...

"I’m not sure I ever saw what was so controversial"

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Dealer Gavin Brown on the New Museum "controversy": "I don’t see the problem—are people upset about the works in the exhibi...
Sunday, April 18, 2010

Linkage

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The California AG's report on MOCA mismanagement. (Background here .) " We're short of cops to begin with and we don't hav...

"Slick, happily one-sided"

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Colin Dabkowski of the Buffalo News on "The Art of the Steal": "We don’t get nearly enough face time from those in favor of...
Thursday, April 15, 2010

How Not to Deaccession

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The Blanden Memorial Art Museum comes in for some harsh criticism from the AAM for its "Art is for Everyone" sale. Background h...