Tuesday, December 24, 2013

"The lawsuit claims the gallery’s conduct is 'self-dealing that can only be described as Byzantine.'"

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Daniel Schnapp has news of a lawsuit by Michael Ovitz against Perry Rubinstein Gallery.
Saturday, December 21, 2013

"Ms. Sonnabend’s name is now dutifully listed among the founders in the museum’s lobby."

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Holland Cotter explains how MoMA's new Sonnabend show is in part "a byproduct of legal hassles": "[Rauschenberg...

"The elephant labored and produced a mouse."

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That's how one defense lawyer summed up the result in the strange , " self-defeating " breach of confidentiality suit brought...

"The ownership of the artwork has been fiercely contested during a three-week trial in which Fawcett's final wishes and her relationship with O'Neal were dissected."

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Ryan O'Neal has won possession of a Warhol portrait of Farrah Fawcett.

Oh the horror

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I picked a good week to be busy with the day job because I was able to avoid the spectacle of the usual suspects reacting to the issuance of...
Tuesday, December 17, 2013

The Jenack Decision

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Was running around today, but the big news was that the Court of Appeals issued its decision in the Jenack case .  The decision is here .  T...
Monday, December 16, 2013

Resale Royalty Report

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The Copyright Office has issued its long-awaited report on resale royalties.  You can read it here .  The NYT's Patricia Cohen has a bri...
Sunday, December 15, 2013

Ann Freedman Defamation Settlement

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Laura Gilbert has the story in The Art Newspaper:  "The suit was based on a New York magazine article published in August in which G...

Holland Cotter has the answer for Detroit

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Here it is:  "If it proves that the worst seems about to happen, the art world should get itself out to Detroit en masse and put its ...
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

"The deal would raise roughly $500 million from a consortium of national and local charitable foundations and funnel the money into retiree pensions on behalf of the value of the art at the DIA." (UPDATED)

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A grand bargain in Detroit? UPDATE:  The Art Market Monitor says the discussions are "a reminder to the shrieking and fretting arts ...
Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Morel v. AFP: How The Case Was Won (UPDATED)

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Find out next Monday . UPDATE:  You'll have to wait a little longer to find out.  I'm told the panel has been postponed.  Date TBD...
Monday, December 09, 2013

"It’s pretty hard to see how a market which has doubled in a decade can be considered to be 'tepid' and 'in a doldrums'" (UPDATED)

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Felix Salmon goes to town on the James Stewart state-of-the-art-market piece I mentioned over the weekend.  The Art Market Monitor identif...

"The dark you're in doesn't compare to the dark the citizens of Detroit suffer day in, day out and the crime that results from that."

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Nearly half of Detroit's 88,000 streetlights are broken .
Saturday, December 07, 2013

"Philadelphia Wants To Use Eminent Domain To Turn An Artist's Studio Into A Parking Lot And Supermarket"

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Story here .  George Mason's Ilya Somin comments here .

Is the art market really going through the roof?

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James B. Stewart says no .  Jim Cramer says it's a "brilliant piece."  Marion Maneker says not so much:  "Stewart is sa...

"If the defendants are found liable, some legal experts say, it could have broad implications for the art world by threatening to turn such confidentiality agreements into restrictions or even prohibitions of resales."

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The Wall Street Journal has an update on Marguerite Hoffman's strange , " self-defeating " lawsuit for breach of a confidenti...
Thursday, December 05, 2013

Speaking of removing art from the market

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We know that museums themselves would never do anything as " grim and venal " as " putting a pricetag on ," or " m...

Philip Kennicott has an idea for "removing as much art as possible from the market"

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" Would an art easement work, in which museums sold the right to sell their art, but held on to the art itself ?" Who exactly wo...
Wednesday, December 04, 2013

The Day's DIA

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Today's big Detroit news was that Christie's finished the appraisal that people have been waiting for . Two points for now. A l...

Four Simple Rules For Writing About Art Auctions

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From Felix Salmon .