Fighting forgery: Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation organizes authentication...
The Art Newspaper reports that the Dalí Foundation is hosting a conference on the authentication of works and "fighting forgery through the courts" at Dalí’s summer home and museum a few hours away...
View ArticleCan you copyright a tattoo? Legally-speaking, it's a legitimate question
ST. LOUIS. Given the litigious environment in which we live in, I suspect some of you are thinking that the copyright suit over the replica Mike Tyson tattoo in the film "The Hangover: Part II" is the...
View ArticleThe Barnes Foundation stays in Merion... but the Renoirs, Cezannes and...
Barnes Foundation executive director and president Derek Gillman announced today that the Foundation will be investing "more than $300,000 to "revitalize" the 12-acre arboretum on the grounds of the...
View ArticleDid Warner Bros. spend a quiver in its arrow by removing Tyson tattoo from...
The latest development in the Tyson tattoo saga is that defendant Warner Bros. will digitally remove the copyrighted tattoo from the DVD version of "The Hangover Part II." In legal documents filed...
View ArticleDétente in Anglo-Russian cultural relations leads to an increase in artistic...
Statue of Yuri Gagarin (a copy of a Russian original) LONDON/MOSCOW. The serious tensions in political and cultural relations between the UK and Russia (stemming from the UK's insistence that Russia...
View ArticleIf it's too good to be true, it probably is
FRANCE. Remember that post about the electrician who was gifted 271 works by Picasso for a mere 3-years' worth of services rendered? Last December, French authorities seized the never-before-seen,...
View ArticleMonkey Art
We're all clear that under the U.S. Copyright Code, the author of an original work has exclusive rights over the copyrighted work. But what if the author is not a living person but rather a monkey? The...
View ArticleTattoo Settlement
ST. LOUIS. It's always bitter sweet when a case settles. On the one hand, it's a good thing that costly, lengthy and probably hugely draining litigation has been avoided. However, on the other hand, we...
View ArticleART PICK OF THE MONTH (July '11): Ode to the Romantic Schizophrenic
Gallery View - Romantic Gothic. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty" The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Through August 7, 2011 Dedicated to my dear...
View ArticleResale rights revisited: why all the controversy?
The artist's resale "royalty" right or droit de suite refers to an artist's right to a share of the proceeds realized from the resale of such artist's work. As the Lerner and Bresler treatise on art...
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WASHINGTON D.C./GREECE. The US and Greece have signed an MOU that makes it illegal for antiquities and Byzantine objects to be imported to the US without the approval of Greek authorities. The measure...
View ArticleWarhol Art Authentication Board to be dissolved in early 2012
NEW YORK. After a two-month break from blogging, I had no idea what stories I would find upon my return but this one was certainly a surprise. The Art Newspaper has reported that the Warhol Foundation...
View ArticleArt & finance: the rise of "art loans" for the well-heeled clients of private...
NEW YORK. Bloomberg recently reported that former hedge-fund manager Michael Steinhardt secured a "very cheap" loan from JPMorgan Chase Bank by pledging a number of the works in his fine art collection...
View ArticleWho owns Henry Moore's "Knife Edge Two Piece"?
LONDON. In 1967, Henry Moore and the Contemporary Art Society donated Knife Edge Two Piece (1962-65) to the United Kingdom. The bronze sculpture has since stood directly opposite the Houses of...
View ArticleJodi Endicott: art for our "tumultuous times"
HAWAII. The worlds of art and finance have been inextricably linked since the ancient world though the phenomenon is most strongly associated with the golden age of art patronage in pre-modern medieval...
View ArticleNYCLA 4th Annual Art Litigation and Dispute Resolution Institute
NEW YORK. Next Friday, November 18 the New York County Lawyers' Association (the "NYCLA") will host the 4th Annual Art Litigation and Dispute Resolution Institute. The day-long event promises to be an...
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BENTONVILLE, ARKANSAS. Alice Walton’s long-awaited Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art finally opened its doors to the public on Friday. The museum is "endowed with $800 million from the Walton...
View ArticleReuniting J.M.W. Turner's bequest: the search for justice continues
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, J.M.W. Turner (1823). Oil on canvas. Tate Gallery, London LONDON. When J.M.W. Turner died in 1851, he bequeathed "about 300 paintings and 30,000 drawings as well as a large...
View ArticleUnexpected closing of Knoedler gallery arouses suspicion
NEW YORK. A Knoedler & Co. rep told Bloomberg the closure of the 165-year old UES gallery was a "business decision" but the unexpected announcement raised eyebrows as it came one day day after GLG...
View ArticleAffirmative action for non-Western art? No thanks.
Judith Dobrzynski recently posted a fascinating piece on some of the issues raised by Hicham Daoudi's three-year €450,000 grant to the Pompidou Center that "must be spent on art by Moroccan artists."...
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