This week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case centered on an art question with few easy answers: Did Andy Warhol violate photographer Lynn Goldsmith’s copyright when he used her photograph of the music legend Prince as the basis for a series of portraits? Goldsmith filed the initial complaint against the Andy Warhol Foundation alleging copyright violation in 2016. In the years since, ...
Court hears arguments in Warhol estate appeal on WednesdayAt issue is "fair use" of another's work in copyright lawWASHINGTON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court is set to ponder in a case centering on paintings by the late artist Andy Warhol a question as philosophical as it is legal: what is the line between art and copyright theft when artwork is inspired ...
The Supreme Court released a decision Friday overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling which established a constitutional right to an abortion. There is no longer a constitutional right to an abortion in the United States. The ruling, which came in the 2018 case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, No. 19-1392, was in alignment with the leaked draft majority opinion published by Politico in ...
Roy DeCarava’s famed photographs may normally be the stuff of gallery exhibitions, but this spring, they will also figure on clothing put out by Supreme. The collection, which features a hoodie and two T-shirts printed with black-and-white images of anonymous Harlem subjects shot by DeCarava, is set to be released in the U.S. and in Japan on May 19 and 21, respectively, DeCarava, who ...
On Monday night, Politico published a leaked draft Supreme Court majority opinion indicating that it would overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling which established a constitutional right to abortion. If the decision holds when it is made official in June, the 98-page opinion would allow state legislatures to rollback access to legal abortion or ban it entirely. Feminist visual artist Marilyn Minter has been ...
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday to revive a years-long lawsuit over the rightful ownership of a painting by French impressionist Camille Pissarro surrendered to the Nazis in 1939. The court’s ruling opens an opportunity for the heirs of Lilly Cassirer, the painting’s original owner, to reclaim it from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, where it has been on display for decades. The ...
The Supreme Court said on Monday that it would review a closely watched copyright infringement lawsuit that pits the Andy Warhol Foundation against the photographer Lynn Goldsmith. The Court’s decision could have major implications for “fair use” of copyrighted materials in art. Few cases related to contemporary art have ever been heard by the Supreme Court. In 1984, Warhol used a 1981 photograph of ...
A two-decade-long legal battle over a painting by Camille Pissarro will be heard in the U.S. Supreme Court on January 18. The work at the center of the dispute, titled Rue St Honoré, apres-midi, effet de pluie (1897), was sold by Lilly Cassirer Neubauer, a Jewish woman living in Berlin, for $360 to get visas to flee Nazi Germany. She never received the money. The painting eventually made ...
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know this Friday, December 10. NEED TO READ Portugal Accused of Botching Venice Biennale Selection – Bruno Leitão, the curator of the Venice Biennale’s Portuguese pavilion, has accused the country’s ministry of culture of violating its duty in ...
The Andy Warhol Foundation in New York is lobbying the Supreme Court to review a copyright infringement case involving a 1981 photograph of Prince by Lynn Goldsmith and a 1984 series of paintings by the Pop artist based on it. In 2017, Goldsmith sued the Warhol Foundation, claiming that Warhol’s “Prince Series” hewed too closely to photographs she took while on assignment for Newsweek. ...
