As the Canon Expands, the Business of Artists’ Estates Booms
via ARTnews
When artist Paul Gardère died in 2011, his daughter, Cat Gardère, undertook her promise to steward his estate and legacy. Having worked as a studio manager and an exhibition coordinator, “I had a lot of familiarity working with artists, archives, and studios,” she told ARTnews. She began the long process of fulfilling her commitment to her father, but there was one catch: the elder Gardère had not set up a trust.
Tech Start-Up Aims to Get Artists Royalties for Resale
Fairchain generates digital contracts and certificates of title and authenticity, allowing artists to track their work and share in secondary market proceeds.
Frida Kahlo painting breaks record at Sotheby auction and shines light on women artists
A self-portrait by artist Frida Kahlo sold for just under $35 million this week at Sotheby's in New York. The sale highlighted how the works of women artists can command incredible sums on the world market. But that hardly tells the whole story. Anthony Mason has more.
Hauser & Wirth Publishers to release 'Marcel Duchamp' monograph and catalogue raisonné more than 60 years since original edition
After being out of print for more than sixty years, the Grove Press English edition is now back in circulation with Hauser & Wirth Publishers’ fully authorized facsimile of Duchamp’s seminal first monograph and catalogue raisonné.
The new theatrical space of Amy Lincoln
The new theatrical space of Amy Lincoln. September 15, 2021 2:04 pm. Amy Lincoln, installation view. Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York.
Pam Glick’s code theory
For her new paintings, on display at The Journal Gallery in their rotating “Tennis Elbow” series, Pam Glick seems to embrace both the automatic and the procedural.
Case Study: Running a Famous Artist’s Estate Is a Maze of Infighting and Deal-Making. Here’s How the Rothkos and Other Families Did it
Children weigh in on dealing with their famous parents’ cultural heritage.
Case Study: An Indonesian Theme Park Must Destroy Its Knockoff of Chris Burden’s ‘Urban Light’ After Losing a Suit Brought by the Artist’s Estate
Rabbit Town has 30 days to remove the infringing installation and apologize to the Burden estate.
Art, Money & Law: Notes on the Clyfford Still Estate
Ten years after Still’s death, the disposition of his estate remains unresolved. Herewith some speculations on the future of this huge cache of important work.
Case Study: The Enormous Seven-Part Catalogue Raisonné on Pioneering Spiritual Abstractionist Hilma af Klint Is Finally Being Published
The first three of seven volumes are out this month.
Case Study (via Artnet.com): How Does Jenny Holzer Get the Rights for All the Texts She Uses in Her Artwork?
Can a politician get sued for plagiarizing someone else's speech? And how can artists use pop music in their work without getting into trouble?
AES in the Wall Street Journal: You Inherited a Bunch of Papers. Now What?
Archives may hold historical and other value even if the deceased wasn’t famous
Avedon, Unsigned
Ruedi Hofmann, master printer for the photographer’s magnum opus, “In the American West,” understood that his payment would be a set of signed prints. He has the prints, but they were never signed. Whose prints are they, anyway?