The US Supreme Court ruled against the Andy Warhol foundation in the closely-watched copyright infringement lawsuit filed against the photographer Lynn Goldsmith, a decision that could set a precedent for cases involving the fair use doctrine. The Justices ruled 7 to 2 in Goldsmith’s favor, in the decision released Thursday.Continue Reading
Lisa Schiff, an art adviser with deep connections to the upper echelons of the market, will now face a second lawsuit that alleges she defrauded a collector in the sales of artworks collectively worth millions of dollars. Meanwhile, on Monday, Douglas J. Pick, a lawyer who specializes in bankruptcy, wasContinue Reading
The Australian government will conduct a joint investigation into the authenticity of works produced by a major Indigenous art collective after claims of alterations and artistic interference by white art assistants, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Tuesday. The federal, South Australian, and Northern Territory governments are behind the inquiry intoContinue Reading
After the Telegraph reported last week that India was waging a massive effort to get stolen artifacts back from the UK, government officials from the former country contested the article, stating that it had exaggerated repatriation efforts currently being undertaken. The Telegraph‘s article said that the repatriation efforts could targetContinue Reading
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Nearly seven years ago, Mohammed bin Salman al Saud, the newly ascended crown prince of Saudi Arabia, then 31, sat relaxed in his palace as he explained on international television his ambitious plan to diversify the Arab economy away from oil. At the center of Saudi Vision 2030, as theContinue Reading
Earlier this spring, the London nonprofit a/political and the Hamburg-based Wau Holland Foundation held the exhibition “States of Violence” in partnership with the whistleblowing NGO Wikileaks. The show, housed at a former meat processing factory in South London and displaying the work of 16 politically active artists and collectives, hadContinue Reading
The Centre Pompidou, Paris’s top museum for modern and contemporary art, has officially set out plans to close for five years starting in 2025 while it undergoes a €262 million ($283.6 million) renovation. Although the museum had previously announced a long-term shuttering, it was expected to begin this year andContinue Reading
The BBC will restore a controversial statue by Eric Gill, a British sculptor who died in 1940, that sits outside its headquarters. It was vandalized last year in protest of the artist’s admitted pedophilia. The work, which depicts Prospero and the spirit Ariel from Shakespeare’s Tempest, was attacked in 2022 by aContinue Reading
Paris+ par Art Basel has named the 154 galleries that will take part in its upcoming second edition, scheduled to run October 20–22, with two VIP preview days beginning October 18 at the Grand Palais Éphémère. Among the 140 galleries taking part in the main Galleries section are mega-galleries Gagosian,Continue Reading
