Revisiting: Interview with Tom Lawson, Dean of CalArts School of Art
For the next several weeks I'll be bringing back some oldie but goodie reads from Clancco's past.
We'll start off with this interview with CalArts School of Art dean, Tom Lawson, which took place the glorious sunny afternoon of October 7, 2006, at the Spain Restaurant in Los Angeles, California, hours before the New York Mets swept the Los Angeles Dodgers to win the National League Division Series. The interview covers a wide range of questions: from Lawson’s artistic career, deanship at CalArts, and writing publications, to Lawson’s current thoughts on contemporary art, art pedagogy and the ...
Ferrari recognized as work of art
Image courtesy of Motohide Miwa.
An Italian commercial tribunal in Bologna has recognized the Ferrari 250 GTO car not only as a classic, but as a work of art that is entirely original and fully protected by intellectual property rights.
Given that only 36 of these GTOs were produced between 1962 and 1964 (with one selling last year at auction for $48.4 million), another company in the northern city of Modena thought it a good idea to produce 250 replicas. Obviously that's not gonna happen.
Does anyone remember that interesting, and wrongly decided, moral rights case in Texas some 9 years ago? ...
Warhol’s use of Prince image fair use
Images at issue.
The artwork did not violate the photographer Lynn Goldsmith’s copyright, according to a ruling that sided with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Haven't had time to read the opinion, but if not appealed will certainly be controversial. More here. Background here.
A Texas state appeals court ruled that Texas can infringe upon copyright without risking punishment under the state’s or federal government’s “takings” clause.
After Olive sued the university, the university pushed for the case to be dismissed because the public institution has sovereign immunity, which protects state government entities from a variety of lawsuits. Olive’s side responded by arguing that the copyright infringement was an unlawful “taking” under the state’s constitution, which prohibits the government from taking private property without adequately compensating the owner.
So it appears a Texas court doesn't think copyright infringement is a taking. I think the "takings" argument will convince a U.S. court in the near future. Until then, here's another interesting article via Reason.com on qualified immunity ("which essentially ...
In 2017, Volkswagen used Ai’s artwork, Soleil Levant (2017), as part of a VW advertisement. This week Ai Weiwei won a major copyright and moral rights legal battle against VW, arguing in part that VW’s use of Ai’s artwork made it seem like AWW promoted and endorsed VW.
Good to see more and more artists taking a stand against the rampant stealing of copyrighted property.
“In keeping with the prurient theme, this month’s [9th Circuit Court of Appeals] ruling turned in part on the Everett law’s ban on the public display of some portions of a worker’s ‘anal cleft.'”
Comments Off on “I came back with a firm understanding that Arnautoff was really not a person who was trying to venerate George Washington—or rather that he made a picture that venerated George Washington, but from the standpoint of a serious critique.”
Not surprising to read of another attempt by social warriors to destroy works of art. Nor is it surprising to read about grown men and women abiding by every infant’s hysterical demand. But if we could just stop touting dinosaurs like Judith Butler, Frederic Jameson and David Harvey as luminaries worthy of our ears, we may actually get somewhere.
Here’s the story on attempts to destroy a San Francisco public school mural.
For the next several weeks I’ll be bringing back some oldie but goodie reads from Clancco’s past.
We’ll start off with this interview with CalArts School of Art dean, Tom Lawson, which took place the glorious sunny afternoon of October 7, 2006, at the Spain Restaurant in Los Angeles, California, hours before the New York Mets swept the Los Angeles Dodgers to win the National League Division Series. The interview covers a wide range of questions: from Lawson’s artistic career, deanship at CalArts, and writing publications, to Lawson’s current thoughts on contemporary art, art pedagogy and the impact of market forces on artistic production.
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