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British Art Market Federation chairman Antony Browne on the consequences of right of resale laws, about global distortion, the decline of the U.K.’s market share, and the potential threat the end of derogation in droit de suite poses to British jobs.
Via Artinfo.
Thieves carried out a well-organized, pre-dawn heist at Greece’s biggest state art museum on Monday, taking an oil painting by 20th century masters Pablo Picasso and one by Piet Mondrian.
Our good friend, Ingrid Chu, sent this story along.
Last month, artist Yoshitomo Nara casually announced in Japanese over Twitter that two counterfeit paintings had been included in his ambitious publication Yoshitomo Nara Complete Works 1984–2010. “…I have been looking through my Catalogue Raisonné! … drawing #203 and 204 are forgeries… sorry to tell you after they are already released,” he said.
Via Art in America.
Locke v. Shore is a challenge to a Florida law that requires interior designers to be licensed by the government before they may work in a commercial setting. The plaintiffs are three interior designers and the National Federation of Independent Business, some of whose members wish to engage in speech that Florida has broadly defined as the “practice of interior design.”
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit declared last March that the regulation of “professionals’…direct, personalized speech with clients” received no First Amendment scrutiny whatsoever.
Will the U.S. Supreme Court review this decision?
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The Huffington Post’s Daniel Grant wonders if the Cariou v. Prince case will decide the “fate” of appropriation art. His article basically hammers in what we already know: that copyright law is a murky area, where the outcome of a fair use analysis is anyone’s guess.
Art dealer Robert Lucky Jr. of New Orleans was sentenced Tuesday to 25 months in federal prison for selling forgeries of famed folk artist Clementine Hunter, whose paintings of early 20th century agrarian life in Natchitoches Parish hang in the Smithsonian.
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