Posted on: February 19, 2024 by Molly Stech
On 25 January, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York entered judgements against appropriation artist Richard Prince and his co‑defendants Laurence Gagosian, the Gagosian Gallery and Blum & Poe Gallery. The cases are Graham v. Prince et al (15 cv 10160) and McNatt v. Prince et al (16 cv 08896). […]
Posted on: September 12, 2018 by Alexander Herman
A stern-looking man with a gun turns towards a metallic device mounted on the wall. He places one hand on the device’s handle and checks his watch. It is 12.04. Next we see an analogue clock hanging above a presenter reading the BBC radio news into a microphone. The time on the clock reads 12.05. […]
Posted on: May 4, 2017 by Hélène Deslauriers
In March, Jeff Koons and the Pompidou Centre in Paris were held jointly liable for copyright infringement. The work at issue was a porcelain sculpture of about 40 inches representing two naked children. The sculpture was part of Koons’s ‘Banality’ series and was scheduled to be part of a Koons retrospective at the Pompidou Centre […]