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Thursday 17 May 12
Artists who “appropriate” the work of others are increasingly coming into conflict as a slew of recent cases involving artists including Shepard Fairey, Ryan McGinley and Thierry Guetta (“Mr Brainwash”) demonstrates. Now, in the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which 20 years ago ruled that... >>>
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Enforced silence encourages fakes. It gives forgers the space in which they can manoeuvre >>>
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The popular assumption is that anything recovered from the sea is ‘finders keepers’ >>>
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Let the conservators do their job and turn down the volume. And to the conservators: back off a little >>>
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The national museums should be encouraged to market the rest of Britain through their collections >>>
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It might be time to rethink where growth will come from instead of justifying the status quo >>>
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As Italy’s new technocratic government struggled to its feet, 100 financiers, entrepreneurs, collectors, curators, dealers and academics gathered in Florence for a private conference on the future of art and finance >>>
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Some in the US museum world take the view that the Italian authorities should take advantage of the apparent truce >>>
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From 2013 China will have a declining working population… but India’s will grow for 30 years >>>
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It was the initiative taken by the US government that made all the difference [in the Portrait of Wally case], signalling that it would expend national resources to seek justice >>>
The boundary between the expression of an idea which copyright protects and the underlying idea which cannot be protected is a fluid one >>>
----But it’s hard to predict how budget cuts will impact on attendance, especially in regional centres >>>
Let us move the debate about restoration, which is tied up with questions of scientific analysis, on to a less fevered basis >>>
We suggest the city looks for other sources of revenue, allowing cultural institutions to continue to do what we do best >>>
The financial turmoil has been an incentive rather than a barrier for the wealthy to buy art >>>
There is a fascinating resonance between the wild, ambitious idealism that once inspired Tatlin’s tower, and the 'remarkable, miraculous, limitless possibility of thinking' that has inspired the development Saadiyat Island >>>
The ministry is now looking at ‘cryptic provenances’ such as ‘Swiss private collection, 1980s’ >>>
Arts and science are similar in that they are expressions of what it is to be human in this world >>>
The most basic element of accessibility [for museums] is to be open for as long as possible, to allow as many people as possible to visit >>>
