The Art & Law Program is happy to announce the Fall 2019 Art & Law Fellows. Once again, our decision-making was extremely difficult given our applicant pool. The incoming group includes a broad and diverse range of artistic, intellectual and professional interests, and we very much look forward to working with them.
In the fall 2019, the Program will examine artists’ legacies and artists’ estates through the lens of tangible and intangible property, contracts, moral rights, freedom of expression, and corporations. This will allow the fellows an opportunity to examine how sectors of the art industry— such as academia, the ...
Che Guevara photog heirs send take down
The heirs of the deceased photographer Alberto Korda, best known for the iconic photograph of Che Guevara that has adorned Tshirts and college dorm posters for fifty years, have issued a takedown demand to Liberty Maniacs over its sales of parody items that display the photo's cap and hair but replace Guevara's visage with, alternately, Donald Trump and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Liberty Maniacs is not giving up its fair use freedoms without a fight, arguing in their response to the demand letter "that moral rights are not enforceable in the United States, that the First Amendment protects the right of parody, and ...
“Graffiti is art” appeal continues in the 2nd Circuit
Apparently (some) federal judges have bought into the argument that spraying aerosol on walls is art, or hell, not just art, but art blessed and protected by the 1990 Visual Artists Rights Act.
If you've been keeping track of the 5Pointz lawsuit pitting property owners against graffiti "artists," here's an update. And yes, I do know that in this particular case the property owner consented to daily alterations of New York's "Guernica."
Roberta Smith on San Francisco’s Disputed George Washington Murals
In a democracy, destroying a work of art is never a solution to any offense it may give. Once art has been made and released into the often choppy flow of life, it should stay there. It will live on anyway. To dictate its elimination is an implicitly autocratic move, similar in spirit, if not scale, to the deliberate demolition of ancient art and artifacts by the Taliban and the Islamic State.
More here.
The 1972 Documenta, “When Attitudes Become Form” … proposed a more pervasive, even numinous conception of art that has endured ever since. It insisted that “art” is a whole bundle of activities, stretching past autonomous images and objects, that encompasses being an artist, speaking like an artist, and acting like an artist within a specific setting. It proposed that texts, recordings, and other forms of documentation were integral components of artistic creation, and that the eyes were insufficient to perceive a work of art in its totality. And it positioned the curator as an active agent in artistic creation, perhaps even an author or an Über-artist.
These days, artists demanding the removal of their works from exhibitions is a common tool in the arsenal of political protest. In the cases of both the Aichi Triennale and the Whitney Biennial , artists called for their works to be pulled amid protests over what was happening at those institutions. But in 1969, this was something novel.
Good article in Artnet news on the artist Takis’s entrance into MoMA in 1969 and removal of his own sculpture as an act of protest. The beginning of “artists’ rights” movement?
The Art & Law Program is happy to announce the Fall 2019 Art & Law Fellows. Once again, our decision-making was extremely difficult given our applicant pool. The incoming group includes a broad and diverse range of artistic, intellectual and professional interests, and we very much look forward to working with them.
In the fall 2019, the Program will examine artists’ legacies and artists’ estates through the lens of tangible and intangible property, contracts, moral rights, freedom of expression, and corporations. This will allow the fellows an opportunity to examine how sectors of the art industry— such as academia, the gallery system, for-profit and non-profit institutions, auction houses, curatorial practices, and law—impact the practices, definitions and controversies of contemporary art. This is an updated list of the 2019 Fellows.
The Fall 2019 Fellows are:
Juliana Biondo Carlos Jiménez Cahua Ivana Dizdar Claudia Fernandez Mira Friedlaender Kearra Amaya Gopee Danny Greenberg Shervone Neckles Cassie Packard Chris Rawson Armando Rosales Rivero Susan Rosenberg Elizabeth Smolarz Aden Solway
An alumni association filed a lawsuit on Friday challenging the San Francisco Unified School District’s Board of Education over the board’s decision to cover up a 1936 mural by Victor Arnautoff, titled “Life of Washington.”
Readers following this story may remember that back in August the board voted 4-3 for the resolution to cover the decades-old mural inside George Washington High School with panels, in hopes of keeping innocent young ones from the ugliness of life.
Today, the city announced that it is bowing to pressure from the East Harlem community: [Simone] Leigh has withdrawn her proposal following the backlash, and [Vinnie] Bagwell will design the new monument.
The heirs of the deceased photographer Alberto Korda, best known for the iconic photograph of Che Guevara that has adorned Tshirts and college dorm posters for fifty years, have issued a takedown demand to Liberty Maniacs over its sales of parody items that display the photo’s cap and hair but replace Guevara’s visage with, alternately, Donald Trump and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Liberty Maniacs is not giving up its fair use freedoms without a fight, arguing in their response to the demand letter “that moral rights are not enforceable in the United States, that the First Amendment protects the right of parody, and that any copyright claims would be defeated by fair use.”
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