Art and Artifice

Another week, another art copying row. The opening of an exhibition of paintings by Bob Dylan (perhaps *slightly* more famous for his singin...

Last month, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York granted an injunction to the owner of a photo of the Leonardo da Vin...

"Modern masters under threat" is the title of a short, readable piece just published in issue 4 of the 2011 volume of WIPO Magazin...

Back in November, I pondered the subject of consent in relation to an exhibition of photographs by Heather Shuker of girls in toilets taken ...

Last week, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (DDC) rejected Hungary's motion to dismiss a claim brought agai...

A recent news item on Yahoo! draws attention to the activities of Andrew Lancaster, an English immigrant who, on his arrival in New Zealand...

The Barbican Art Gallery in the City of London suffered what was apparently the first art theft in its history in May this year. Thieves...

Is there such a thing as art which is not political? While some art is commissioned by, and indeed shaped by, the demands of a regime or of ...

Reported at the end of last week, a court in Poland has cleared a vocalist in the death metal band Behemoth over charges of insulting religi...

Reported yesterday on page 3 of the London Evening Standard [so quite a big deal then] is a fight over a 1978 Andy Warhol painting. The pape...