Friday, September 30, 2016

"That I would be able to ever pronounce these words is something I had no longer dared to hope for." (UPDATED)

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NYT:   2 van Gogh Paintings Stolen From Amsterdam Are Recovered in Italy . UPDATE:  Jonathan Jones:   Gangsters' use of paintings as c...
Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Met lays off 34 employees (UPDATED)

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Story here . UPDATE:  There's also this:  "The museum also expects to reduce the number of annual exhibitions over the next few y...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Michael Rushton on whether museums should provide free admission

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Self-recommending (even without the interesting detour into deaccessioning).
Thursday, September 22, 2016

"Are museums for sale?"

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A big thank you to the Art, Cultural Institutions and Heritage Law Committee of the International Bar Association for including me as a pane...
Monday, September 19, 2016

"[Negishi] has intervened in some areas of my paintings, but the intellectual authorship of the works is mine."

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Via Clancco , news of a co-authorship claim in Spain by a former studio assistant of the artist Antonio de Felipe.  I don't know what t...
Monday, September 12, 2016

Getty Images moves to dismiss Highsmith lawsuit

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Story here .  Background here .
Thursday, September 08, 2016

"Of course, I’m pleased by the verdict. But it was a horrible thing to go through.”

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Peter Doig talks to The Globe and Mail about his recent trial:  "It took up so much time and energy not to mention, of course, money....

"Art collector ... Michael Shvo has been indicted by the Manhattan District Attorney for tax evasion related to a scheme to avoid sales tax on expensive art purchases." (UPDATED)

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Story here . UPDATE:  More details on the alleged scheme here .  And here : "The DA said that between 2010 and 2016, Shvo falsely t...
Wednesday, September 07, 2016

"Sentences handed down in high-profile case over Drouot thefts"

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The Art Newspaper :  "[T]he Paris Criminal Court convicted 38 of 49 defendants in a high-profile trial that opened in March over a comp...

"If a living artist has to endure years of expensive litigation and a full-blown trial to defend their position on whether they authored a work of art, what hope do experts, who are usually brought in to opine on authorship once an artist has passed away and can no longer vouch for their work, have?"

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" On the other hand, it’s also not unheard of for an artist to try and disavow a work that they created for reasons of personal animus ...
Tuesday, September 06, 2016

"We might be sympathetic to a plaintiff in the case of a different set of facts."

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So said Amy Adler in response to the recent Peter Doig case. Hazel Rowland collects some examples of different sets of facts here . Are...

"It is impossible to talk about the case without making it sound ridiculous; indeed, it *is* ridiculous, as in 'an exceptionally easy target for ridicule.'"

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America’s only known primatologist-turned-copyright-law-professor weighs in on the monkey selfie case : "There are many reasons that...

California bans painting depicting Confederate flag from County Fair art show

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The Center for Individual Rights objects .  So does the LA Times editorial board .
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

“[T]he move to the transformative analysis, thought by many to be the solution to fair use woes, has actually made things worse for the visual arts.”

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Speaking of excellent points by Amy Adler (who by the way co-teaches the best art law seminar in the world), she has a terrific new law re...

"No longer is it prudent to leave a body of work to one’s next of kin and hope for the best."

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The Financial Times:   How an artist's legacy became big business . Related:   What Artists Should Do to Protect Their Legacies before...

Another "what we learned from the Knoedler scandal" story

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This one from Laura Gilbert in The Art Newspaper. A previous example here . I continue to think the answer is "not much."
Monday, August 29, 2016

Weighing In

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Artnet collects reactions to the Peter Doig case from various experts, all interesting and very much worth reading. Amy Adler makes an e...
Friday, August 26, 2016

Another Richard Prince lawsuit

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The Art Newspaper's Julia Halperin has the details , including that "[u]nlike the plaintiffs in the previous cases, Salazar—who pos...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

"As one of my former Corcoran colleagues said about the two case studies, ‘The Corcoran is dead. Delaware lives.'"

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The Washington Post's Peggy McGlone had a story last week on the demise of the Corcoran Gallery: Homeless art, lost jobs and low enrollm...
Tuesday, August 23, 2016

BREAKING: Doig Wins (UPDATED)

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The New York Times:   The Artist Peter Doig Wins a Case Involving a Painting's Attribution . But of course, nobody really won here . ...