« Le sacré dans le patrimoine » (journée d’étude, Paris, 4 février 2019) Cette journée d’études est le fruit d’une rencontre inédite entre des étudiants

en droit du patrimoine et droit de l’art – doctorants à l’Insitut des sciences sociales du politique – et des élèves conservateurs de l’Institut national [...]

Former Mass MoCA Director’s wife makes documentary film about Mass MoCA. What do you get? Well, apparently a not-very-objective take on the lawsuit and PR campaign that Mass

MoCA aggressively launched against Swiss artist, Christoph Büchel. Here’s The Hollywood Reporter’s take: [...]

For those that follow the now-historic debacle concerning Giuseppe Panza, the Guggenheim Museum, and numerous Conceptual and Minimalist artists, here’s the low-down on this

week’s two-day symposium concerning heady “art law” issues. [...]

During the mid-eighties, the anonymous artist group Guerrila Girls began to draw attention to sexual discrimination in the art world. In these posters and leaflets, the advantages

of being a woman artist are listed ironically. Imitating the language and aesthetic of advertisement, these printouts praise the actual disadvantages, such as lack [...]

In 2000 Christoph Schlingensief reflected on the question of who has right to protection and asylum with his notorious participative performance „Please love Austria –

First Austrian Coalition Week“. Twelve (supposed) asylum-seekers were housed in a shipping container undergoing continuous surveillance in a reality-tv format similar [...]

The so-called „Benin Bronzes“ that decorated the royal palace of the Kingdom of Benin (in modern-day Nigeria), are now part of a fundamental debate around questions of

ownership. Mostly seized by British forces during the colonial period, these bronzes constitute for many European art museums a juridical, moral, and political challenge. In [...]

When the unofficial refugee camp in Idomeni, Northern Greece, was cleared and thousands of people were forced to leave their makeshift accommodations, many personal belongings

were left behind. The artist Ai Weiwei collected the abandoned items of clothing and showed them washed, steamed, and organized in his exhibition “Laundromat” [...]

This caricature by Honoré Daumier from 1869 shows a group of clerics trying to blow out a flame symbolizing freedom of expression. While the depicted image explicitly deals

with this fundamental right, the medium of caricature itself, independent of its subject, has always had a role in defending freedom of (artistic) expression. [...]

A court in San Francisco dealt with this issue until late 2018. The animal rights advocacy group PETA filed a lawsuit against the photographer David Slater for the rights to

the picture a macaque took of itself in 2011. This monkey selfie opened up a discussion, and several lawsuits, on whether an animal has a claim to copyright and its [...]