Wednesday, November 30, 2011

ALSO BREAKING: Knoedler Closing ... Effective Immediately

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Patricia Cohen has the story in the New York Times.

BREAKING: A little joy in Fiskville today (UPDATED)

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Fisk University has won its appeal in the latest round of the Stieglitz Collection litigation.  It gets to enter into a sharing arrangement ...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

What We Talk About When We Talk About Appropriation

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Contemporary Art After Cariou v. Prince, a panel discussion at the City Bar Association, Dec. 13.

Show Me the CARFAC

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Andrew Russeth notes that "a group that lobbies on behalf of Canadian artists is calling on the country’s government to enact a resale...

"There've been so many deaccessions this fall that they seem routine ..."

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" ... hardly worth noting ."

"It is a global problem involving huge sums of money. They are banking on enough people being scared into paying."

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The Guardian:  Art dealers are latest targets of online fraud .
Monday, November 28, 2011

"Overall, the three amicus briefs make a strong argument for—at the very least—a remand."

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The Fordham Intellectual Property Law Journal on Prince-Cariou:  "The Southern District decision was too narrow in its transformative ...

"The problematic charitable-donation tax deduction"

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Felix Salmon wasn't impressed with Stephen Carter's recent piece on the virtues of the charitable deduction.  The issue comes up i...
Friday, November 25, 2011

"There seems to be no overall magic answer for authenticating works of art: every method is flawed."

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Georgina Adam in The Financial Times.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

"One way to increase the value of your art would be to have it become part of an oddly popular/famous art theft."

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The Art Market Monitor on one consequence of Mark Lugo's San Francisco Picasso theft.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

"By encouraging individuals to make their own choices on how to spend money for the public good, the deduction makes society as a whole better off. Let’s keep it that way."

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Stephen Carter pushes back against the "rising mania among politicians" to "either eliminat[e] or severely restrict[] the ch...

Yeah, but they totally won't be the same

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" The Violette de Mazia Foundation and the Barnes Foundation are pleased to announce that they have come to an agreement that will allo...

"It’s an insult to the tree. It has nothing to do with urbanization."

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In San Francisco, a spate of tagging that " appears to violate one of the tenets of the graffiti subculture ."
Monday, November 21, 2011

"Why you can’t always trust auction results"

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Felix Salmon explains.

"Federal judge tosses book at art swindler" (UPDATED)

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Six years for Thomas Doyle .  Background here . UPDATE:  More from the New York Times and  Courthouse News Service .

"I am somewhat obsessed with this bizarre art collection and lawsuit."

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The Dallas Observer:  Catching Up With That Fascinating Federal Case Involving Wendy Reves's Son and the DMA .  Background here .
Saturday, November 19, 2011

"I will take this to the bitter end with them."

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Janine Gordon is appealing the dismissal of her copyright infringement suit against Ryan McGinley.  She's doing the appeal pro se.
Thursday, November 17, 2011

"Why are original artworks valued more than identical duplicates?"

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From the Journal of Experimental Psychology .

"Sure, a little over $4 million is a lot of money, but is it all that economically illogical, considering how well luxury brands are doing?"

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The Freakonomics blog on the world's most expensive photograph .

Chicago dealer Richard Love files for bankruptcy

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Story here .  Background here .