Thursday, March 28, 2024
 


American Indians Lose Trademark Lawsuit


According to the Associated Press, the Washington Redskins won another legal victory Friday in a 17-year fight with a group of American Indians who contend the football team’s trademark is racially offensive.

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Another Major Art Heist in 10 days in the Netherlands


Thieves pried open the emergency door of the IJsselstein City Museum, a small Dutch museum, with an iron bar and made off with six 17th- and 19th-century landscape paintings. The paintings included three by Jan van Goyen, a prolific contemporary of Rembrandt who died in 1656. The others were a 17th century painting by Pieter de Neyn and 19th-century pieces by Willem Roelofs and Adrianus van Everdingen. A Van Goyen was sold by Christie’s’ in London six months ago for more than $126,000. The paintings were originally on loan from the Dutch government.

 

Of Infringers and Barbarians


In today’s WSJ, Mark Helprin defends original creators of intellectual property. He writes:

Are you — were you — in publishing? Are you, or were you, a journalist? A screenwriter, composer, architect, designer, photographer, writer, or in a business that brings the work of these people to the public? What have you done to protect your life’s blood and to guarantee the continued independence of your voice? As distressed as you may be now or not long from now, should copyright go the way of all flesh, some of you may soon be unable even to recognize your own profession, if indeed it continues to exist.

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Ringer of Fair Use and Civil Rights Dies at 83


Some sad news come to us via a trustworthy Clancco reader. Barbara Ringer, the drafter of the Copyright Act of 1976, which represented the first major revision in seven decades of a basic law governing intellectual property, died last month at age 83.

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Remains: Of Madoff and Nazis


A Picasso that was being unloaded by a victim of the billion-dollar fraudster Bernard Madoff was among prized works of art that failed to sell at a faltering start to the spring auctions in New York, while a 16th-century Italian painting of St. Jerome seized by the Nazis during the Second World War from Jewish art dealer Max Stern was returned Wednesday to two Montreal universities.

 

Van Gogh’s Ear Cut Off by Gauguin


Van Gogh’s Ear: Paul Gauguin and the Pact of Silence, the recent book by art historians Hans Kaufmann and Rita Wildegan, argues that Van Gogh’s ear has much to tell us.

From The Guardian:

According to official versions, the disturbed Dutch painter cut off his ear with a razor after a row with Gauguin in 1888. Bleeding heavily, Van Gogh then walked to a brothel and presented the severed ear to an astonished prostitute called Rachel before going home to sleep in a blood-drenched bed.

But two German art historians, who have spent 10 years reviewing the police investigations, witness accounts and the artists’ letters, argue that Gauguin, a fencing ace, most likely sliced off the ear with his sword during a fight, and the two artists agreed to hush up the truth.

 

Masked Robbers Grab Dali Painting


Just in from Deutsche Welle:

Several masked robbers walked into the Scheringa Museum for Realist Art in Spanbroek, a village north of Amsterdam. They threatened the staff with a gun and then took Dali’s 1941 “Adolescence” and a 1929 oil painting by the Polish art deco painter Tamara de Lempicka off the wall. “They put the paintings in a car and drove off,” police spokesman Menno Hartenberg said. “It was all over in two minutes.”

Both pieces were part of the museum’s permanent collection. Musuem officials would not disclose the paintings’ values, saying only that they were among the collection’s top works.

 
 
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