Thursday, March 27, 2014

How to be ethical in the art world

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In two easy steps. Step one:  when the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts sells a $40 million Hopper in order to buy a bunch of contemporar...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Release the hounds!

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Randy Kennedy in the NYT:  Delaware Art Museum Will Sell Works to Pay Off Debt . How dare they!?  Repulsive Stalinesque scoundrels .  Ha...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

Prince-Cariou Settlement

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As anyone who is interested enough in art law to be reading this blog must know by now, the long-running Prince-Cariou fair use lawsuit has ...
Friday, March 14, 2014

"Settlement Reached in Cy Twombly Foundation Lawsuit"

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Two directors have resigned .
Thursday, March 13, 2014

The AAMD has responded to the Randolph College deaccessioning with their usual persuasive reasoning

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" Because we said so ."
Monday, March 10, 2014

Hand-wringers gonna wring

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The Art Market Monitor takes on the latest art world "ethical" controversy:  works being loaned to museums ... and then later sol...

"Formally severing Detroit’s ownership of the DIA would be at once revolutionary and conservative."

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Mark Stryker looks at the implications of the potential "grand bargain" in Detroit.

"In fact, the doctrine of mutual mistake is one of the most complex and confusing areas we encounter in our practice."

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The Brothers In Law explain .

"Art world power brokers don’t know what to make of Maximo Caminero."

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Jed Perl on the recent Ai Weiwei vandalism .

Does eccentricity raise the value of art?

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Via the Freakonomics blog .
Thursday, March 06, 2014

Another foundation sued over authentication

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Last month it was Haring .  Now it's Calder .

This seems like a big deal

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Getty Images is opening up the bulk of its photo collection for free .
Tuesday, March 04, 2014

Wait, what?

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The NYT's Patricia Cohen reports on a new lawsuit by the Basquiat estate against Christie's.  Apparently they complain that Christi...
Saturday, March 01, 2014

"While Mr. Ai has defaced works to make new art, one difference is that, unlike Mr. Caminero, he owned the art before he ruined it."

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The New York Times has the latest on the artist "who stunned the art world by smashing a vase by the Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei at the P...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

New Resale Royalty Legislation Introduced

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Patricia Cohen has the story in the Times.  Lee Rosenbaum has a close analysis here , including the following: "The amount of the ro...

New Orleans residents foil plot to steal Banksy mural

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Story here .
Monday, February 24, 2014

"The courts have taken an approach to fair use that we do not believe was originally intended."

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The NYT's Patricia Cohen had an interesting piece over the weekend on efforts by photographers' groups to push back against expansi...

60 Minutes on art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi

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You can watch it here .   Deborah Solomon and Jillian Steinhauer were unimpressed. Derek Fincham says "it was a reminder of how li...
Saturday, February 22, 2014

"Bateman said Randolph College’s Maier Museum of Art is not a 'museum' but part of a 'non-profit institution that owns art.'"

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" As a result it operates not according to the rules and regulations that govern museums but the fiduciary responsibilities of an insti...
Friday, February 21, 2014

"The lawsuit on Friday seeks $40 million in damages and says the plaintiffs lost sales because potential buyers were deterred by the foundation’s statements and actions."

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An authenticity lawsuit against the Haring Foundation .