Arts Policy
Socialist party candidate François Hollande defeated incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday to become the new French president — the first time France has had a Socialist in its highest office since François Mitterrand ended his second term in 1995. During his campaign, Hollande emphasized the importance of culture, suggesting several...
Sotheby’s ongoing lockout of its union art handlers thrust a group of historically behind-the-scenes professionals into the media spotlight. But auction houses aren’t the only institutions negotiating with the people who look after their art. The art handlers at the Whitney Museum are also in protracted contract negotiations with...
In Brussels today, the European Commission proposed the world’s largest-ever cultural funding program under the title Creative Europe. The initiative, which would disperse a projected €1.8 billion ($2.4 billion) between 2014 and 2020, represents a 35 percent increase in European Union expenditures on culture, and is part of a larger Pan-...
Patrick Cariou's victory last Friday in his copyright suit against artist Richard Prince — which determined that Prince's work did not sufficiently transform or comment on Cariou's original — signaled another startling development in the troubled and troubling history of fair-use rulings concerning the arts. But is it consistent with the...
Barely a week after a British survey concluded that China had overtaken the United Kingdom to become the world's second-largest art market after the United States, Artprice has re-crunched the numbers and crowned China number one.To get there, Artprice limited its scope to fine-art sales at public auctions, filtering out results from...
If there is still any skepticism about the continuing rise of the Chinese art market, one dramatic new indicator might put that doubt to rest: according to a new study by the British Art Market Federation, China has outpaced the United Kingdom to become the second-largest art market in the world. With Chinese auction and gallery sales...
