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
Back in June, sculptor Anish Kapoor installed the sculpture Dirty Corner on the grounds of the famous palace there. Kapoor, who can’t seem to avoid public controversy over his work, saw the sculpture first become the object of debate with regard to its form itself, specifically, the suggestion that the shape of the large work was anatomical. Kapoor coyly fostered speculations about what it was meant to represent, but ultimately demurred that his “work has multiple interpretive possibilities." With recent vandalism and a court order that he remove the graffiti, however, the story has turned into one more about free expression and compelled speech. So far, it does not have a happy ending.
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Topics:
Rock Fan,
Versailles,
The Art Newspaper,
Fabien Bouglé,
Ku Klux Klan,
Dirty Corner,
Graffiti Art,
France,
Williams College,
Fleur Pellerin,
Nazis,
Palace of Versailles,
Confederate Flag,
Richard Serra,
Catherine Pégard,
refugee crisis,
Williams College Museum of Art,
First Amendment,
Yardbird Suite,
Anish Kapoor,
François Hollande,
vandalism,
anti-Semitic,
Graffiti,
Amherst College,
Tilted Arc
In one of the first affirmative steps taken by Cornelius Gurlitt since the revelation of the seizure of a large number of artworks with possible Nazi-seizure connections, Gurlitt has filed a criminal complaint concerning his allegations of violations of his privacy rights. According to Gurlitt’s attorney, “The surrender of investigative information to the press, and with it the severe damage to his personal rights is not tolerable in any way for Mr. Gurlitt. . . . This is a blatant violation of official secrecy.” Another of his lawyers went on to express concern for trust in the process in which details were being given to the media. In particular, Gurlitt’s team were most upset about photographs in the Focus piece that broke the story of Gurlitt’s apartment.
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Stuttgart,
Das Alte Schauspielhaus,
Cologne,
Irina Alter,
veschollene Kunst,
Schwabinger Kunstfund,
Wiedergutmachung,
Annette Weber,
Hildebrand Gurlitt,
Cornelius Gurlitt,
Corinna Budras,
S. Lane Faison,
Universität Heidelberg,
Augsburg,
Institute for Jewish Studies Heidelberg,
Aryanization,
Anat Feinberg,
Willi Korte,
Schwabinger Kunstfund. Kunstfund München,
Monuments Man,
Gurlitt Task Force,
Germany,
Fall Gurlitt,
Köln,
Nazi-looted art,
Henry Keazor,
Gurlitt Collection,
Appropriated Art the Gurlitt Case,
Kurpfälzisches Museum Heidelberg,
Hochschule für Judische Studien Heidelberg,
Eberhard Karls-Universität Tübingen,
Emily Löffler,
CSU,
Williams College,
Judische Allgemeine,
Hildebrand Gurlit,
Entartete Kunst,
Universität Zürich,
Arisierung,
Lehrstuhl für Römisches Recht und Privatrecht,
Nürnberger Institut,
Rückgabe,
Rhein-Neckar Morgenweb,
Beutekunst,
'Stürmer-Bibliothek',
Magdeburg,
Daniel Krochmalnik,
Ersessene Kunst,
Katja Terlau,
Art Loss Recovery Unit,
Jim Tobias,
Rhein-Neckar Zeitung,
Fritz Backhaus,
Gurlitt,
Bavaria,
Johannes Heil,
Wien,
Sullivan & Worcester LLP,
Lucas Elmenhorst,
Kunsthistorisches Institut,
Nürnberg,
Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt,
Looted Art,
„Sturmer-Library“,
degenerate art,
Boston,
Seminar für Neuere Geschichte,
Wolfgang Ernst,
www.lostart.de,
Nazi art,
Raubkunst,
Nicholas M. O'Donnell,
Frieder Hepp,
Verjährung,
Vienna,
Münchner Kunstfund,
New York,
FAZ Frankfurt,
Felicitas Heiman-Jellinek
I’ve just returned from my presentation in Heidelberg at the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien in Heidelberg at the conference Ersessene Kunst—Der Fall Gurlitt; Appropriated Art—The Gurlitt Case. The presentations were, without exception, outstanding. They ranged from rarely-told case stories, to sharp insights of some of the overarching principles that guide the the Gurlitt case and similar events. As the discussions made clear, this case will not be easily resolved. That in turn makes recent reports that Cornelius Gurlitt has indicated a willingess to discuss the art's return all the more significant.
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Topics:
Maria Altmann,
Leopold Reidemester,
Ministerin für Justiz und Kultur,
Stuttgart,
Das Alte Schauspielhaus,
Cologne,
Irina Alter,
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer,
veschollene Kunst,
Focus,
Schwabinger Kunstfund,
Aschbach Castle,
Mussolini,
Wiedergutmachung,
Annette Weber,
Monte Cassino,
Cornelius Gurlitt,
Corinna Budras,
S. Lane Faison,
Breslau,
Universität Heidelberg,
Augsburg,
Aryanization,
Anat Feinberg,
Willi Korte,
Schwabinger Kunstfund. Kunstfund München,
Monuments Man,
Jud Süss,
Wrocław,
Dresden,
Gurlitt Task Force,
Germany,
Silesia,
Fall Gurlitt,
Wallraf-Richartz Museum,
Köln,
Nazi-looted art,
Henry Keazor,
Gurlitt Collection,
Appropriated Art the Gurlitt Case,
Schloss Aschbach,
Die Welt,
Kurpfälzische Museum Heidelberg,
Hochschule für Judische Studien Heidelberg,
Karl Haberstock,
Eberhard Karls-Universität Tübingen,
Emily Löffler,
CSU,
Williams College,
Hildebrand Gurlit,
Entartete Kunst,
Universität Zürich,
Arisierung,
Lehrstuhl für Römisches Recht und Privatrecht,
Württemberg,
Schlesien,
Nürnberger Institut,
Hamburg,
Otto Förster,
Rückgabe,
Beutekunst,
'Stürmer-Bibliothek',
Magdeburg,
Portrait of Amalie Zuckerkandl,
Ersessene Kunst,
Katja Terlau,
Art Loss Recovery Unit,
Jim Tobias,
Hermitage,
Gurlitt,
Bavaria,
Johannes Heil,
Wien,
Sullivan & Worcester LLP,
Lucas Elmenhorst,
Events,
Kunsthistorisches Institut,
Nürnberg,
Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt,
Looted Art,
„Sturmer-Library“,
degenerate art,
Seminar für Neuere Geschichte,
Wolfgang Ernst,
Justizminister,
Göring,
www.lostart.de,
Nazi art,
Raubkunst,
Nicholas M. O'Donnell,
Frieder Hepp,
Verjährung,
Vienna,
Claudius Krausharr,
Münchner Kunstfund,
Zwickau,
Kajetan Mühlmann,
New York,
Werner Haftmann,
FAZ Frankfurt,
Felicitas Heiman-Jellinek
The Center for Art Law has a thought-provoking piece about the intersection of property rights and Banksy’s “residence” in New York right now. Mayor Bloomberg went on record too as saying he considered graffiti, and implicitly the works themselves, “a sign of decay.” It’s hard to see a court making an exception in New York City for graffiti, no matter what the art world says.
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Topics:
David Hammons,
Rock Fan,
Public Art,
Graffiti Art,
Williams College,
Michael Bloomberg,
Banksy,
Chapin Hall,
Eugene Johnson,
vandalism,
Center for Art Law
