Friday, August 31, 2012

"It’s unclear to me what, exactly, is being licensed."

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Mike Madison on a deal between the Warhol Foundation and Campbell's Soup.
Thursday, August 30, 2012

Artelligence 3

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Another terrific-sounding conference from The Art Market Monitor.  September 13.  Register here .
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Handicapping Prince-Cariou

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Rachel Corbett talks to Columbia's Pippa Loengard about the possibilities .

"Does this represent a new line in the sand … a raising of the bar for all of us in the arts?"

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Diane Ragsdale has some questions about the Detroit Institute's recent millage campaign. Related post from Nina Simon .

"I looked upon my activities as a contest of wits with world experts, and I enjoyed every moment of it."

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NPR has a story on forger Ken Perenyi .  Derek Fincham says Perenyi "does not exactly seem to have reformed."
Tuesday, August 28, 2012

"40 Kinkade paintings are gone, and local art dealers are on alert for limited edition prints."

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A bunch of Thomas Kinkade paintings were stolen from a California "shop owner."  He says "evidently they [the thieves] had s...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012

What do they call it again when you do the same thing over and over and expect a different result?

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I see the Friends of the Barnes have posted the latest petition to re-open the lawsuit based on the "shocking" new evidence that...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012

"I have a lot more faith in donors than in the AAMD and its selectively, inconsistently enforced policies that generally apply the myopic rule of one-size-fits-all."

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I'm making former Crystal Bridges curator Chris Crosman an honorary member of my Museum Directors Hall of Fame.  At Lee Rosenbaum's ...

Two Simple Words in the English Language

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The Wall Street Journal:  The Lawyer Who Forgot He Was a Thief . Call it the Steve Martin Defense .

Abandoned Ship

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I also see that the defendant prevailed in the Burning Man/La Contessa trial .  The jury found that the plaintiff abandoned the work, so th...

Tell me again about the public trust (secret Picasso edition)

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Also while I was away, I see American museums continue to do a bang-up job of making sure important works from their collections will be acc...

"This type of inquisitive approach falls short of the 'hatchet job' that Biro's counsel described at oral argument."

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While I was away, the district court dismissed "most of" Peter Paul Biro's defamation claims against The New Yorker at the ple...
Monday, August 13, 2012

Break in the Action

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I'm away again this week, so, unless s omething really important happens , things'll be quiet around here until next week.
Saturday, August 11, 2012

"What is art? Hard to say, but whatever it is it seems to go up satisfyingly in price."

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SWAG .
Wednesday, August 08, 2012

"The levy is expected to raise $23 million a year."

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The new property tax to benefit the Detroit Insitute passed in all three counties yesterday.  Story here .
Tuesday, August 07, 2012

"How can anyone outside of a comic opera expect the authenticity of an old painting to be settled by a lawsuit?"

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Patricia Cohen has an interesting  article in yesterday's Times on "the divide between the court and the market" when it come...
Sunday, August 05, 2012

"The harm would come from the fact that no accredited museum would lend art to the DIA."

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I mentioned Judith Dobrzynski's Wall Street Journal article last week about the DIA millage proposal.  She has a follow-up post at her ...

Fisk Fight Finally Finished

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The collection-sharing arrangement between Fisk University and the Crystal Bridges Museum has been finally approved . I assume everyone i...
Thursday, August 02, 2012

"The Barnes definitely has the goods."

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" And for the first time, you can really see them. "

Burning Down the Bus

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Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento notes that a trial is under way over the destruction of a Burning Man art project.  As he points out, the Court alre...