----- Forwarded message from Rob Dyke <[email protected]> ----- From: Rob Dyke <[email protected]> Subject: Re: <nettime> Collectors, artists and lawyers. Fear of litigation is hobbling the art market Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 19:31:58 +0000 To: [email protected]
Proof denies faith and without faith art is nothing. With apologies to Douglas Adams. On Nov 24, 2012 6:18 PM, "Brian Holmes" <[email protected]> wrote: > Fabulous article. > > The art market (now based on auctions and mega-fairs much more than > galleries) is said to be the world's largest totally unregulated market. > But I think narcotics have been conveniently left out of that calculation! ----- End forwarded message ----- ----- Forwarded message from Keith Sanborn <[email protected]> ----- From: Keith Sanborn <[email protected]> Subject: Re: <nettime> Collectors, artists and lawyers. Fear of litigation is hobbling the art market Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 20:46:33 -0500 To: [email protected] Wonderful to out art dealers as thugs. On Nov 24, 2012, at 11:53 AM, [email protected] wrote: > http://www.economist.com/news/business/21567074-fear-litigation-hobb > ling-art-market-collectors-artists-and-lawyers > > AT A Christie?s auction in New York this month, a painting known > as Ocean Park #48 fetched $13.5m, a record for a work by Richard > Diebenkorn, a Californian artist who died in 1993. The 1971 abstract > painting had been certified as genuine by the Richard Diebenkorn > Foundation in Berkeley. Less fortunate are the owners of more than > 200 purported Diebenkorn paintings and drawings that the foundation > declined to certify. Since an unauthenticated picture is not worth > nearly as much, three owners got their lawyers to send threatening > letters. > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
