The Source for Art & Law
I’ve gotten a few e-mails asking I haven’t commented on Scott Turow’s op-ed article last weekend for the NY Times. I was. I just hadn’t gotten around to it. Turow’s comments speak for themselves, and they’re pretty much…
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Today, the FBI—along with Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts—asked for the public’s help in recovering artwork stolen from the museum more than two decades…
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I like this story. I wonder what my “free culture” and “authorship is dead” friends have to say about this. You see, this is all one needs to counter the “copyright is killing creativity” morons that never seem to understand…
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According to the Daily Mail UK, “The going rate for stolen art is generally between five and ten per cent of its open-market value.” Doesn’t seem like much, but for only a few minutes work on a $10 million Picasso, doesn’t…
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A man accused of defacing a Picasso painting at a Houston museum surrendered to U.S. marshals at the U.S.-Mexico border yesterday.
“The same people that steal credit cards are the same types of people that steal artwork Read more
That an “ordinary art thief would probably not even recognise it as art.”
