Friday, October 31, 2014

What the heck is going on in the Ninth Circuit on the resale royalty case?

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I'm the first to admit I'm not a commerce clause expert (dormant or otherwise), but it has always seemed to me that the resale royal...
Thursday, October 30, 2014

Rauschenberg Trust Fees Explained

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Here .  Background here .
Friday, October 24, 2014

"An Illustrated Guide to Artist Resale Royalties"

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At Hyperallergic .

The Foundation "alleged in a civil complaint that former bodyguard Agusto Bugarin is a 'patient thief' who stole the work in 1984" (UPDATED)

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Warhol Foundation sues to recover a Liz painting. UPDATE:  The Art Market Monitor:  Why Would Warhol’s Former Bodyguard Try to Sell an Ea...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

More on my deaccessioning puzzle

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Michael Rushton offers up a speculative, tentative, cautious, possible answer to the deaccessioning puzzle I presented last week . It...

Ain't it grand!

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The Atlantic: One-Fifth of Detroit's Population Could Lose Their Homes .
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Inching Closer

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The hedge funds are on board in Detroit.
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

"Detroit could make $25M selling copper from old streetlights"

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Are streetlights held in the public trust? If not, why not? Is everything valuable a city owns held in the public trust and therefore no...
Monday, October 20, 2014

"The Feud That’s Shaking Gallery Walls"

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Robert Frank had a piece in the Times this weekend on the Perelman-Gagosian lawsuit. The story leaves out that the bulk of the case was t...

"He was taken into custody by police after he struggled with the museum’s security guards."

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New York Times:   Vandal Strikes Koons Exhibit .

Breaking non-news: Banksy has not been arrested

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Artnet doesn't have the news.
Friday, October 17, 2014

A Deaccessioning Puzzle

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Reading about Mitch Rales's Glenstone collection in Carol Vogel's column today got me thinking about how museums come to be bound b...

30 months

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Prison time for foundry owner who sold Jasper Johns fakes .

Family Squabble

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NYT:   Charges of Looting as Heirs Dispute C.C. Wang Collection .
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

"With the advances in 3D scanning and other digital technologies, I suspect it is easier than ever to duplicate work and create copies."

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Daniel Grant:  " An epidemic of sculpture knock-offs is plaguing the art world ."

"Are copyright laws too strict?"

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Louis Menand in The New Yorker.  Interesting throughout.

"Deal Is Said to Be Close in Detroit’s Bankruptcy" (UPDATED)

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New York Times story here . In other DIA news , "a pair of Oakland County politicians are poised to take action against the Detroit I...
Wednesday, October 08, 2014

"In a ruling handed down late last week by the United States Tax Court and seen by many as an important victory for artists ..."

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The New York Times had a story yesterday on a recent Tax Court decision regarding the deductibility of art-related expenses.  Sam Brunson p...

A note on Elkins (UPDATED 2X)

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Michael Rushton has a post on the Elkins decision which closes with the following:  "If art was previously being treated inequitably ...

Does fair use doctrine favor the rich? (UPDATED)

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Sergio seems to think so .  I'm not sure about that, but I do agree completely with this , from my co-teacher Amy Adler: "One of...