I am pleased to be a presenter and panelist at an event later this month on a topic of evergreen currency: museums and deaccessioning. As we’ve covered here, the pandemic has put pressure on museums in ways that were hard to foresee only 12 months ago. The response by museums, museum associations, and attorneys general has taken a variety of approaches. Just in the last year alone from Brooklyn, to Baltimore, to Syracuse, and most recently the Metropolitan Museum of Art, whether, when, and how museums should handle sales of their collections remains a volatile subject.
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Topics:
Donn Zaretsky,
Dallas Museum of Art,
New York University,
Deaccessioning,
Williams College,
Christie's,
Sullivan & Worcester LLP,
Sotheby's,
17 U.S.C. § 106A(a)(3)(A)-(B),
Nicholas M. O'Donnell,
ARTnews,
Jakob Dupont,
Sarah Douglas,
Brooklyn Museum,
Syracuse University,
Anne Pasternak,
Stephanie Johnson-Cunningham,
Museum Hue,
Dean Craig M. Boise,
Andrew Saluti,
Agustín Arteaga,
Joseph Thompson,
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art,
Courtney Aladro,
Mark Gold,
James Sheehan,
Steven Lubar,
Brown University,
Everson Museum of Art,
Emily Stokes-Rees,
Cara Starke,
Sally Yerkovich,
Brian Frye,
University of Kentucky College of Law,
Silberman Zaretsky, PC,
Peter Dean,
Randolph College,
Andria Derstine,
Oberlin College,
William Eiland,
Carl Van Vechten Art Gallery,
Christy Coleman,
Ken Turino,
Nina del Rio,
Hindman Auctions,
Michael Shapiro,
Allison Whiting,
Julia Courtney,
Christopher Bedford,
The Baltimore Museum of Art,
Julia Pelta,
Fisher Museum,
Thomas Campbell,
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,
Linda Harrison,
Glenn D. Lowry,
The Museum of Modern Art,
Tracey Riese,
Melody Kanschat,
Museum Leadership Institute,
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute,
Betsy Bradley,
Mississippi Museum of Art,
Michael O’Hare,
Goldman School of Public Policy,
University of California at Berkeley,
Erin Richardson,
Frank & Glory,
Smith Green & Gold LLP,
New York State Department of Law,
Michael Conforti,
Amy Whitaker,
Stefanie Jandl,
Deborah Kass,
Amalia Mesa-Bains,
Meleko Mokgosi,
Wendy Red Star,
Carrie Mae Weems,
Pulitzer Arts Foundation,
Roxana Velásquez,
The San Diego Museum of Art,
University of Georgia Museum of Art,
Jamaal Sheats,
Fisk University,
Kristina Durocher,
Association of Academic Museums and Galleries,
Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation,
Historic New England,
Lawrence Yerdon,
Strawbery Banke Museum,
Scott Wands,
American Association for State and Local History,
When is it Okay to Sell the Monet?,
Glenn Adamson,
Bern University of the Arts,
Michelle Millar,
The Newark Museum of Art
A recent injunction ruling that prohibited the destruction of the “Bicentennial Freedom Mural” in Corona, California had occasion to consider the rights asserted by the plaintiffs and artists under the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 (VARA), 17 U.S.C. § 106A. The order ultimately granted the injunction but on different grounds, holding that the plaintiffs were unlikely to prevail on their VARA claim.
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Topics:
work of recognized stature,
Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles,
555 U.S. 7,
Moral Rights,
United States Army Corps of Engineers,
Cal. Civ. Code §§ 987 and 989,
Inc.,
Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990,
California,
Santa Ana River Mainstem Project,
Pippa Loengard,
54 U.S.C. § 306108,
VARA,
Kernochan Center for Law Media and the Arts,
Corona,
Ronald Kammeyer,
Columbia Law School,
Phillips v. Pembroke Real Estate,
Copyright,
Prado Dam,
NHPA,
Administrative Procedure Act,
National Historic Preservation Act,
17 U.S.C. § 106A(a)(3)(A)-(B),
459 F.3d 128,
5 U.S.C. §§ 701-706,
Winter v. Natural Res. Def. Council,
SARM
