Sunday, February 24, 2019

"The company that commissioned 'Fearless Girl' is suing its creator."

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" According to court filings dated February 14th, investment firm State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) is claiming that the sculptor, Kr...
Monday, February 18, 2019

The Swizz Beatz Resale Royalty Solution

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Mentioned in this NYT Style Magazine profile: "Dean has proposed sidestepping the law entirely and instead introducing an option for...
Sunday, February 17, 2019

"Yoo’s response paints her former employer’s lawsuit as a case of sour grapes."

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artnet:   Accused of Data Theft, Former Lehmann Maupin Director Bona Yoo Fires Back With Her Own Lawsuit Against the Gallery . Backgrou...

Tell me again about the public trust (1960 Rothko edition)

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SFMoMA is selling a 1960 Rothko painting at Sotheby's in May.  It's expected to sell for $35-50 million. Now, you may think thi...
Thursday, February 14, 2019

Thirty Months for Mary Boone (UPDATED 2X)

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Story here .  Background here . UPDATE:  Jerry Saltz still thinks she shouldn't have gotten any jail time:  "You all know where...
Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Tell me again about the public trust (Zao Wou-Ki "masterwork" edition)

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The Guggenheim is deaccessioning a 1958 Zao Wou-Ki painting.  It's estimated at $7.7-10 million. Because the sale proceeds will ...
Saturday, January 26, 2019

"How a long-lost Leonardo da Vinci painting got dragged into a Trump-Russia conspiracy theory"

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From Vox.com .

"In an Explosive Lawsuit ..."

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". . .  Lehmann Maupin Gallery Accuses an Ex-Employee of Stealing Valuable Client Data and Trade Secrets ."

"The Manhattan Supreme Court suit filed Wednesday is the latest salvo fired in a dysfunctional family’s soap opera."

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The New York Post:   Family locked in bitter battle over Basquiat paintings . Related salvo, from last spring.
Sunday, January 20, 2019

"The text messages suggest a wider gulf in which Mr. Indiana may not have been fully aware of the art being designed under his name."

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NYT:   Private text messages entered as evidence in a legal dispute raise new questions about whether the artist fully designed his final wo...
Saturday, January 19, 2019

"An artist resale royalty is fair in principle for all visual artists. It would also address lingering inequities born of racism and allow the families of artists excluded from the art market to be appropriately recompensed." (UPDATED)

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Maxwell Anderson had a recent piece in The Art Newspaper arguing in favor of resale royalty legislation, which he says "is expected to...

"Athletes Don’t Own Their Tattoos. That’s a Problem for Video Game Developers."

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Another interesting story from around the holidays:  the New York Times reports on a series of lawsuits against sports video game makers by...

The Kendrick Lamar infringement lawsuit also settled over the holidays

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Story here .  The artist who sued him had won an important summary judgment victory in October.

"[B]ut didn't it all work out in the end?"

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Still catching up on some year-end reading, and came across this, from Michael Hiltzik's list of the 10 best books he read in 2018, one...
Sunday, January 13, 2019

"The divorce also threatens to expose the private dealings of one of the wealthiest and most influential families in the art world. Mr. Mugrabi, 47, is the scion of a powerful art-dealing family that is reportedly worth $5 billion and owns some 1,000 works by Warhol, making it the world’s largest private holding."

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The New York Times on Libbie and David Mugrabi's divorce .

"[A]s long as dealers who show a lot of women artists pay those artists i am good with the dealer cheating on her taxes. It’s a wee bit bad-ass too. But you want ‘em to pay taxes, cool by me. She has to now. You win." (UPDATED)

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Tweets Jerry Saltz, who was one of many " prominent art world figures " who wrote letters to the sentencing Judge on Mary Boone...
Saturday, January 12, 2019

"He is very proud of his work, which he is excellent at."

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The New Yorker:  The French Burglar Who Pulled Off His Generation's Biggest Art Heist . Background on the man the French press dubbed ...

Another Shagalov Lawsuit

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In this one he is suing Paul Kasmin Gallery for $8.5 million. Previous Shagalov lawsuits discussed here .

"The exhibition will be accompanied by a symposium exploring strategies 'to torpedo the art market while simultaneously giving it new momentum,' according to a museum statement."

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The Art Newspaper:  German museum to show shredded Banksy work . Background here on the shredded Banksy work, which, oddly enough, did no...

"No one should ever be running in an art gallery."

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artnet News:   Thieves Make Off With a Painting From New York’s Team Gallery in Broad Daylight After a Half-Mile Chase .