Ex-art dealer Rocco DeSimone says his fortune has been reduced to a 2006 Honda Element valued at $12,000 and a little more than $3,000 in cash, checking and savings accounts.
Via The Boston Globe.
Images of Goldsmith and Warhol at issue. The U.S. Supreme Court will review a ruling that an Andy Warhol print infringed a copyrighted photograph taken by photographer, Lynn Goldsmith, of the late musician, Prince. We certainly hope--as much as one can hope for anything these days--that SCOTUS cleans up the wasteland that has become of "fair use" interpretation. One would think, and hope I suppose, that with many of the sitting justices adhering to textualism, they will fully jettison the nonsensical "transformativeness" test that has plagued us like a really bad case of Covid since the mid-1990s. Docs here, via ...
Ahh...Youth! Sergio Munoz Sarmiento. (2015 - ongoing), C-Print. © and TM Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento. All rights reserved. I had a lovely conversation with fellow lawyer and artist, Stephanie Drawdy, on the NFT craze, pets, art law, and the origins of The Art & Law Program. You can listen to the Podcast here. Hope you enjoy!
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Centre Pompidou, and the Association Marcel Duchamp have digitized their vast archives of material on the Dadaist and placed it online, where it is free to all. Enjoy!
If you have kids at home and want them to do something fun and educational, try the Art & Law Coloring Book, an ongoing project by The Art & Law Program. Really a great collection of drawings by great artists, including: Emma Jane Bloomfield Damien Davis Molly Dilworth João Enxuto Soda Jerk Clare Kambhu Alexandra Lerman Erica Love Douglas Melini Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento Melinda Shades Elisabeth Smolarz Gabriel Sosa Alfred Steiner Valerie Suter Happy coloring!
If you're confused as to what the hell NFTs are, particularly art NFTs, here's a new article by Alfred Steiner that pretty much walks you through and safely out of the NFT hell. In his article, Steiner explains what NFTs are and what it means to own one. He also discusses why that meaning of ownership—which may appear novel to many—isn’t new at all when considered against the backdrop of the market for conceptual art. Steiner concludes with some observations about how NFTs may be good and bad for the art industry.
Ex-art dealer Rocco DeSimone says his fortune has been reduced to a 2006 Honda Element valued at $12,000 and a little more than $3,000 in cash, checking and savings accounts.
Via The Boston Globe.
Fresh on the heels of Frank Stella’s plight for resale rights, the Artists’ Rights Society, the main copyright and licensing collecting agency in the US, is pushing for legislation that would see droit de suite, or artists’ resale rights, become federal law.
Frank Stella takes on art institutions and their dependence on, and exploitation of, visual artists in his new article for The Art Newspaper. Stella comments that after he attended this year’s World Copyright Summit in Brussels this past June, he realized how far behind, and below, visual artists are economically compared to other artists (musicians, filmmakers, writers). Stella believes copyright provides a valid and suitable form of protection to artists, but would like to add national resale rights (“droit de suite”) in the U.S.
Given the art world in its current state, the American visual artist is low man on the totem pole. In the larger, more sophisticated world of intellectual property rights and creative copyright enforcement—in literature, music, film, computer programming and patent protection—the American visual artist is again way behind.
The artists’ depressed position in the copyright world makes an unpleasant image. Massed above the artist in the art world are museums, exhibition halls, educational institutions, auction houses, art dealers, collectors, speculators, forgers and—the most recent menace—art fairs. Why is this community so reluctant to help those on whom they are ultimately dependent?
Stella’s comparison of visual artists to other artists is one we have championed for quite some time, analogizing it to the radical artistic and economic structure that musicians set up thanks to the rise of the internet. Presented with different problems, the visual art community would be wise to learn from the autonomous space created by musicians, and the freedom (and problems) it engendered.
Via The Art Newspaper.
Last Tuesday, fifty participants in a performance art project by Zefrey Throwell, Ocularpation: Wall Street, get naked in NYC and three are arrested.
Via our friends over at Hyperallergic.
Members of Teamsters Local 814 allege they are being locked out over a contract dispute with Sotheby’s. They also allege Sotheby’s is asking for pay cuts and wants to change seniority rules even after posting profits of close to $700 million. Sotheby’s has hired temporary employees to take their place.
Via NY1.
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