The Supreme Court of the United States has issued its long-awaited ruling in the dispute between photographer Lynn Goldsmith and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (AWFVA) on May 18, 2023. The Court held the AWFVA’s delivery to Condé Nast magazine in 2016 of an Andy Warhol silkscreen from 1984 based on a 1981 Goldsmith photograph of the musician Prince did not satisfy the first factor (of four) of the statutory fair use elements. The Court took a narrow approach, explicitly declining to reach the question of whether Warhol’s original work would qualify for a fair use defense, holding only that the 2016 use did not.
(Williams College Museum of Art Security Badge, ca. 1993)
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Topics:
Cariou v. Prince,
Copyright Act,
Philippa Loengard,
Campbell v. Acuff Rose Music Inc.,
Kernochan Center for Law Media and the Arts,
17 U.S.C. § 107,
Columbia Law School,
Andy Warhol,
Fair Use,
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts,
Syracuse University,
Condé Nast,
Kagan,
Sotomayor,
Roberts,
Titian,
Lynn Goldsmith,
Vanity Fair,
Thomas,
Giorgione,
Goya
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
Robin Pogrebin at the New York Times has written an excellent piece on the news that the Brooklyn Museum intends to sell several works from its collection to raise money. The museum explicitly relies on the pandemic-inspired announcement in April by the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) relaxing its industry guidance (and pausing sanctions) with regard to the proceeds of the sale of art and how the resulting proceeds should or should not be used. The parallel announcement by a Syracuse museum that it intends to sell a Jackson Pollock painting in a manner more consistent with the old rules provides an instructive moment to consider what has really changed in six months of a new era.
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Topics:
The Art Newspaper,
Jackson Pollock,
Deaccessioning,
Boston Globe,
Association of Art Museum Directors,
Lucas Cranach the Elder,
New York Times,
AAMD,
Berkshire Museum,
Apollo Magazine,
Brooklyn Museum,
Robin Pogrebin,
Syracuse University,
Anne Pasternak,
Lucretia,
Courbet,
Corot,
Red Composition,
Lisa Simpson,
Donato de’ Bardi,
NY Board of Regents,
Jeff Jacoby,
C. Montgomery Burns,
Royal Academy of Arts
