Here’s one thing that happens when artists don’t get their estate matters in order. Since the death of artist Robert Indiana, The law firm of Hogan Lovells LLP, based

in London and Washington, D.C. has been paid $1,562,040. The law firm of Venable LLP, based in Washington, D.C., has been paid $1,397,611. [...]

I received two emails last week asking about this event and video, and figured it would be a good time to revisit this conversation between myself and Jill Magid. This event/conversation

on intellectual and cultural property took place in February of 2014 at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics. [...]

In Punk and revolution: Seven more interpretations of Peruvian reality, Shane Greene locates the distinctive elements of Peruvian punk in the context of the political and urban

environment of the 1980s and early 1990s. This time, which Greene refers to as “the bloodiest period since independence from Spain” (1) is shaped by the Communist [...]

For the past three years I’ve been using the term “art industry” in my seminars and lectures to describe the recent state of the “art world.” In brief, I think this

better encapsulates the tide of, say, the last five years. By using “industry” instead of “world” or “market” I think we can better understand how visual [...]

Peter Karol of New England Law, Artists have been dramatically reshaping the fine art certificate of authenticity since the 1960s. Where traditional certificates merely certified

extant objects as authentic works of a named artist, newer instruments purported both to authorize the creation of unbuilt artworks and instruct buyers how to manifest [...]

Apparently so. On forums like Reddit, marketplaces like Patreon, and on standalone websites, communities of anonymous users are making, selling, and getting off to the computer-generated

likenesses of celebrities and other real people. The 3D models that emerge from these communities can be articulated into any position, animated, modified, interacted [...]

In Episode 10, Going Native, Omar grasps the true meaning of kizunguzungu: but is the dizziness coming from denying local researchers authorship, or from open relationships?

(Also, in which MDGs team thanks the amazing people who helped with this project).  [...]

Are you an anthropologist considering podcasting? Then this post is for you Sound is widely accessible, it conveys nuances of emotion, atmosphere and tensions in ways that

are onerous with text, and currently podcasts are fairly democratic as a medium – i.e. [...]

In late September, 2019, the current US presidential administration struck several unprecedented deals with the Northern Triangle governments of Honduras, Guatemala, and El

Salvador to return asylum seekers who transited through those countries on their way to the U.S. [...]