Friday, October 26, 2012

"Any proposed cap would have long-lasting negative consequences on the charitable organizations upon which millions of Americans rely for vital programs and services."

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"Leaders of big nationwide nonprofits sent letters to President Obama and Mitt Romney on Thursday urging the presidential candidates to...

Worst Lawsuit of the Week (UPDATED)

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Rebecca Tushnet hands out the honors . UPDATE:  The estate doubles down .
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Randolph College: A Study in Governance and Decision-making

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I mentioned recently that I have a chapter in a new book on academic museums.  One of the most interesting chapters in the book is co-aut...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Student Note on Deaccessioning

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Sara Tam, In Museums We Trust: Analyzing the Mission of Museums, Deaccessioning Policies, and the Public Trust , Fordham Urban Law Journal,...

Lap Dances are Not Art

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Says the New York Court of Appeals, in a 4-3 decision .
Monday, October 22, 2012

"[I]f we treated these crimes (and yes, their perpetrators) with some (albeit grudging) respect we may get closer to cracking them...and to properly defending our museums"

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Tom Flynn continues to push back against the " thieves are stupid " meme.

"For more than a dozen years ... Knoedler & Company was 'substantially dependent' on profits it made from selling a mysterious collection of artwork that is at the center of a federal forgery investigation ..."

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" . . . former clients of this former gallery have charged in court papers ."

"If a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is upheld, every museum in the United States that exhibits modern art created overseas could potentially be infringing copyright."

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The NYLJ [ $ ] has more on the big first-sale doctrine case I mentioned recently here .
Saturday, October 20, 2012

Changes to the New York Consignment Statute

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Recent posts by Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento and ARTINFO's Rachel Corbett remind me that I've been negligent in not mentioning the impor...

Rotterdam Update

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In the New York Times this morning, the museum " denied accusations of sloppy security ." The ARCA blog is really the go to pla...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Gagosian Drops Suit Against Perelman

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Patricia Cohen has the story here .
Wednesday, October 17, 2012

"What do you do if you’re a dealer who has been sued by art handlers, banks, clients, another gallery, and your own artists?"

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" Move to Kazakhstan ."

Rotterdam Roundup

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Lots more today on the big Dutch art heist . The New York Times reports "the theft was the latest alarm about museum security in Eur...
Tuesday, October 16, 2012

"The big question every reader will want to know is, how and why does a person become an art forger?"

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Vanity Fair :  " The Greatest Fake-Art Scam in History? " The Art Market Monitor says they may the most boring art forgers in h...

"Those thieves got one hell of a haul." (UPDATED 2X)

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Says the Art Loss Register's Chris Marinello, about a theft today from a Rotterdam museum. AP story here . UPDATE: Derek Fincham ...
Monday, October 15, 2012

New Book on Academic Museums

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I’m thrilled to have contributed to a new book on issues involving academic museums, A Handbook for Academic Museums: Beyond Exhibitions ...
Friday, October 12, 2012

"The thing with gentlemen’s agreements is that gentlemen tend to disagree, in retrospect, over what they meant."

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The Observer's Rozalia Jovanovic reports on a copyright infringement lawsuit by photographer Rodrigo Pereda against artist Ivan Navarro...

Oh, by the way: museums may not be able to display foreign-made, copyrighted works

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It's a first-sale doctrine thing.  Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento explains .
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

"Charitable Deduction Under Fire"

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Some gloom and doom from the Nonprofit Law Prof Blog .

"Can algorithms help explain art?"

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Art.sy goes live .