“Rediscovering Lost Legacies: Bavarian Bank Urged to Return Kandinsky Masterpiece to Jewish Heirs”
Kandinsky’s “A Colorful Life” (1907), which had belonged to collectors Emanuel and Hedwig Lewenstein, was sold in a 1940 Amsterdam auction…
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Court Case
Landmark Copyright Ruling Could Affect All Artists
On May 18, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 against the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts over whether Warhol’s use of a photo of the musician Prince by Lynn Goldsmith in one of his art pieces constituted copyright infringement. This decision, after almost six years, has…
NFT Platform’s Former Executive Convicted
This is a news story I thought would be of interest to my blog readers. Nathaniel Chastain, a former product manager at NFT sales platform OpenSea, was convicted on May 3, 2023 in New York Federal Court on charges of money laundering and fraud. Each of these charges carries a maximum prison sentence…