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.
(Long Island Federal Courthouse, Richard Meier & Partners, Architects LLP)
Representations of lawyers, judges and courthouses abound in pop culture, and we are seeing more and more art projects that deal–directly or unfortunately–with law. Yet critical analysis of the physical structures of courthouses are not as frequently seen.
Two interesting art and law stories come to us today from the Canadian Broadcasting Centre (CBC).
A Belgian-born writer claims many of Salvador Dali’s paintings are fakes, produced en masse by his assistants in order to support his lifestyle. “In his new book Dali And I: The Surreal Story, released in Spain this week, Stans Lauryssens claims that, in his later years, the painter authorized assistants to produce thousands of forgeries in his name, in order to fund his lavish lifestyle.” Countering these accusations, the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation says it will take the “necessary legal action” against Lauryssens.
A good week for news of artists (and judges) making art with the aid of legal discourses. This year’s graduating MFA exibition from the California Institute of the Arts features one such project by Carlin Wing.
However, artists such as Carlin Wing were inspired not only by Chinatown’s reputation as a hip and popular art enclave, but also by its earlier history. Her outdoor chalk diagram piece “Four Courts” references the multiple meanings of the term “court” — from royalty and sports (Wing was a professional squash player) to architecture and judicial. The latter will be suggested in the form of a live reading related to an 80-year-old California Supreme Court decision that old Chinatown be razed to make room for Union Station. “I wanted to engage with the community here and the history,” Wing says.
Read more on the CalArts MFA exhibit at the LA Times.
Sandra Day O’Connor, better known in legal circles as the swing and deciding vote in many a Rehnquist Court decision, is using her legal knowledge to create — videogames.
Once given to turning forgeries in order to pay bills and rent, Dutch art forger Geert Jan Jansen’s is now exhibiting his work in the central city of Zeist.
After stumbling into his talent as a cash-strapped young man, Jansen flooded art collections of Europe and beyond with brilliantly forged masterpieces for three decades before he was caught in 1994.
Frequently arrested but never convicted, Jansen is proud to show off his goods with two signatures: that of the original artist and his own. More from Yahoo! News.
Reuters reports that acting on a tip, Canadian police have found some of the missing loot taken from the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. No word yet on what condition it’s in or if the Mexican necklaces were recovered.
(Vija Celmins, Night Sky No.12)
Some of us have always been curious as to what museum guards really think when they have to stand guard over piles of debris, merde in cans, or chicken-scratch on walls. Well, we just found out.
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