Sunday, December 16, 2018

"Legal tips for art lovers"

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I'm quoted in this piece by Martha Lufkin in The Art Newspaper.
Saturday, December 15, 2018

How a charming art dealer became a wanted fraudster

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On the Chowaiki saga .  Background here .

Recognize this practice for what it is

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I've basically been arguing here for a decade now that there can be two coherent theories on deaccessioning. You can think it's al...
Saturday, December 08, 2018

Settlement in the Anish Kapoor-N.R.A. Lawsuit

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Story here .  Background here .  Kapoor declares victory.  On the other side, the N.R.A. says the suit was "baseless" but that ...
Monday, December 03, 2018

Attorney Fee Award in California Resale Royalty Lawsuit

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Opinion here .  Brief tweet-summary here .  Background here .
Saturday, December 01, 2018

"It almost sounded too good to be true: a Picasso painting stolen in one of the world’s most famous art heists had been found under a tree in a snowy Romanian forest."

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" On Monday it emerged it was totally too good to be true, part of an elaborate and carefully staged piece of performance art by a radi...

MoMaCha is now MaMaCha

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MoMA had obtained a preliminary injunction in October.  Story here .  Background here .

"Graffiti Artists are Gaining Recognition—and Rights"

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Good overview of recent developments from Bennington's K.E. Gover.  An excerpt: "Unlike traditional forms of visual art, aero...

Have the Washington Principles been a failure?

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Noah Charney thinks they have.

Hail Fredonia?

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SUNY Fredonia sold a painting by the Georgian painter Niko Pirosmani for $2.3 million at Sotheby's London this week. Question:  was t...

"People thought maybe I was rash and should put it down to one of life’s rich experiences. But people defrauding other people, especially in the art market, should not be allowed to get away with it."

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Andy Hall won his fraud trial against a former college professor and her son who sold him a series of paintings they claimed were by Leon Go...

"An Artist Bought a Banksy Piece Just So He Could Destroy It"

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Story here .  He paid $730,000 for it and says he plans to whitewash it … and then sell it for a million dollars. Banksy can invoke VARA t...
Saturday, November 03, 2018

"If the number and relevance of galleries were to decline, how might this affect artistic content?"

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Tyler Cowen has some hypotheses and, like all his hypotheses, they're worth considering.

"A Cunning Husband-and-Wife Duo Sold Hundreds of Forged Artworks in Finland."

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" Now, They Are Headed to Prison ."

Answer: yes

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The Nation:  Can You Copyright a Quilt?

Tell me again about the public trust (one museum's 19th century photo sale seems to be the Met's gain edition)

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The Times reports on a sale of a group of Carleton Watkins photographs by the Hispanic Society in New York to an "unknown donor" ...
Saturday, October 27, 2018

"Engelmayer found that it was too early to say whether or not Viktor would be able to prove in a non-speculative fashion that the use of her work had influenced sales of the single and album, because the discovery process is still ongoing in the case."

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Artist Lina Iris Viktor survives a motion for summary judgment on a key damages issue in her infringement suit against Kendrick Lamar.  You...

"Terms of the agreement between the estate and the studio were not immediately made available."

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A settlement in the Ana Mendieta-Suspiria lawsuit. Nailed this one .
Saturday, October 20, 2018

Tell me again about the public trust (three paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe edition)

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Because they are assuredly not held in the public trust, to be accessible to present and future generations, the three paintings, by Georg...

"Gagosian filed a motion to dismiss in the New York State Supreme Court, asserting that Tananbaum is a 'highly sophisticated art collector' who is aware of Koons’s reputation as 'a perfectionist who often takes years' to make his sculptures."

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Story here . This is the one with the ouroboros .