The Source for Art & Law
Hyperallergic questions whether or not New York City’s MTA is unfairly targeting street artist, Enrico Miguel Thomas. There is a legitimate policing function to the MTAPD, but repeatedly harassing a quiet, unobtrusive…
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Lynn Orr, a former curator at San Francisco’s Fine Art Museums has sued the institution saying she was wrongfully fired for supporting a union demonstration and protesting financial fraud. Via The San Francisco Chronicle.
This is very troubling. An Argentine court has ruled that a deceased author has only “a right of integrity (forbidding any modification of the work without consent of the author) and the right of paternity (to acknowledge…
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Artists, curators, critics and academics have united against president Mohamed Morsi and his controversial charter, which they say threatens freedom of expression and creativity. Resistance is increasing in other ways…
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Margaret Mettler, of the University of Michigan Law School, has just published a student note, Graffiti Museum: A First Amendment Argument for Protecting Uncommissioned Art on Private Property, in the Michigan Law Review…
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The last couple of weeks have seen an avalanche of articles concerning Ai Weiwei’s art projects and his ongoing fight against the Chinese government. The Chinese government’s insistence on lawbreaking and outlaw behavior on…
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The Art Law Program (“The Program”) is a semester-long seminar series with a theoretical and philosophical focus on the effects of law and jurisprudence on cultural production and reception. An examination of how…
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