Legacy and Lawsuits: An Overview of the Robert Indiana Estate Court Battles
By Atreya Mathur The story of Robert Indiana’s Estate is a fascinating one: full of art, drama, lawsuits, LOVE,[1] and maybe HOPE[2]. One of the...
Subhash Kapoor: A Decade in Review
By Julianne Schmidt. In the fall of 2011, Subhash Kapoor, an antiquities dealer based in New York, made headlines in the art world for being...
The Colonization of Native American Trademarks and Designs: the past, present, and (potentially decolonized) future
By Tyler Heneghan. Native American tribes, artists, designers, and spiritual healers have long been associated with the production of high-quality, unique, and effective designs, arts,...
How Artist Collective MSCHF Plays With The Law
By Laura Michiko Kaiser. MSCHF (pronounced “mischief”) is a startup creative collective based in Brooklyn that produces artworks and designs in various formats including: social...
NFTs: How a Technological Trend Redefined Art Ownership
By Antonia von Appen. In the past months, digital artworks sold through Non-Fungible Tokens (“NFTs”), also referred to as “crypto-art”, have become one of the...
WYWH: Legal Issues in Museum Administration 2021
By Center for Art Law. On March 11th and 12th, 2021, the American Legal Institute (“ALI”) webcasted the forty-ninth annual Legal Issues in Museum Administration...
Case Review: Rock’n’Roll, Museums, and Copyright Law (2020)
By Laura Michiko Kaiser. Marano v. Metropolitan Museum of Art, No. 19-CV-8606, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 122515 (S.D.N.Y. July 13, 2020). Art galleries, museums, and...
Opinion: The Value of Judgment
By Noor Kadhim. Was it rashness, a need to burn a hole in his wallet, or simply sheer passion that prompted a buyer to fork...
Making a Case for the CASE Act
By David Jenkins. On December 21, 2020 the U.S. Congress passed a COVID-19 relief bill unlocking stimulus checks, enhanced unemployment benefits, and education funding. It...