Wednesday, December 28, 2011

"If the case has had any effect so far, it has been to drag into the public arena a fundamental truth hovering somewhere just outside the legal debate."

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" That today’s flow of creative expression, riding a tide of billions of instantly accessible digital images and clips, is rapidly bec...
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

"So it has come to this, eh?"

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The Art Market Monitor:  Dealer Attacks Giacometti Foundation Director Over Fakes .
Monday, December 26, 2011

"What else, in times like these, might that kind of money be used for?"

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Sebastian Smee feels a little queasy about the Peabody Essex Museum's recent announcement that it raised $550 million to "fund a m...

"Crystal Bridges is poised to make a genuine cultural contribution, and possibly to become a place of pilgrimage for art lovers from around the world"

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Roberta Smith weighs in.
Saturday, December 24, 2011

"A moral tragedy? Good lord."

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More responses to Jeffrey Goldberg's broadside against Crystal Bridges.  Clive Crook says the two columns are "terrible," ...
Friday, December 23, 2011

On Empty Spaces

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Watkins College of Art professor Tom Williams is worried that "if people don’t step forward to defend [the Stieglitz] collection (and ...
Thursday, December 22, 2011

"The 2d Circuit's forthcoming decision in Cariou likely will be a significant landmark in the debate over appropriation art."

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Says Paul Weiss's Lew Clayton .

"Artist Resale Royalties: Do They Help or Hurt?"

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Kal Raustiala and Chris Sprigman at the Freakonomics blog.  Related post here .

"If the scheme is approved ..., an estimated 300,000 artists are due to receive funding."

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EU proposes the world's largest ever cultural funding program .
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

"Goldberg is really attacking the foundation on which almost all American art museums are built" (UPDATED)

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Bloomberg's Jeffrey Goldberg takes another whack at Alice Walton's Crystal Bridges Museum (previous whack discussed here ).  Judith...

"Is droit de suite really in the artists’ favor?"

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Abigail Esman of Forbes has her doubts .

"Four Things to Know About the Nutty New Droit de Suite Bill Introduced in Congress Last Week"

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From Artinfo's Shane Ferro .  Related thoughts from Lee Rosenbaum here .

"The theft of public sculpture has got to stop." (UPDATED)

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Tom Flynn has had quite enough. UPDATE:  Art Theft Central's Mark Durney weighs in.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

"It's not a good plan to redress one perceived inequity by creating another."

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Lee Rosenbaum, who says she has been espousing the cause of artists' resale royalties "since the '70s," is nevertheless no...

"The museum has hired a .. consultant ... to sell its permanent art collection. Some items have sold, and the proceeds were used to pay remaining creditors."

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A reminder of what happens when we let them fail . The end of the line for the Fayetteville Museum of Art. [ via ]

More on Artists' Copyright Claims

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From Walter Robinson .
Friday, December 16, 2011

"Allowing museums to share in art royalties serves a double purpose, proponents of the federal bill said."

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" As a matter of practical politics, it figures to put a potentially powerful constituency in their corner – just as excusing art deale...

"Perez, a museum trustee, shifted the focus away from art -- from what matters -- to himself, putting patron above artist, money above art."

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Here is an example of the Miami Art Museum's naming proposal drawing sharp criticism when other public institutions have been re-named ...

Are yoga poses copyrightable?

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The Copyright Office says no .
Thursday, December 15, 2011

"Visual artists deserve a share in the sales and resales of their creative works." (UPDATED)

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The NYT's Patricia Cohen reports that resale royalty legislation has just been introduced at the national level:  the proposal is to ...