Limits of Appropriation
American copyright law has always performed a complicated balancing act involving both commerce and culture.
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Faces of Devotion: Indian Sculpture
The Peabody Essex Museum recently acquired the Dr. Leo Figiel Collection of Indian sculpture––widely‐regarded as the finest collection of its kind.
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Restoration induced losses – Case Study
More Reasons why photo documentation is crucial and required before art works go for restoration.
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Crystal Bridges, the Museum Walmart Money Built
The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which opened last month in this small town in northwest Arkansas, is off to a running start. Crystal Bridges is poised to make a genuine cultural contribution, and possibly to become a place of pilgrimage for art lovers from around the world.
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Portraits of the Artists
What happens when a photographer encounters a subject who makes his or her living in front of the camera? Is the result truth or illusion?
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A Year in the Air
The New York Times Culture section published a slideshow of the year in culture. A Year in the Air – Slide Show – NYTimes.com.
Pramod reviews Dayanita Singh’s latest book
Pramod reviews Dayanita Singh’s latest title “House of Love” for India Today.
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‘Printing for Kingdom, Empire & Republic’
This pioneering exhibition is a reminder of how little today’s generation knowd about older Indian scripts, type faces and fonts. Not to mention the myriad Indian scripts, existing and being lost daily… Hundreds of historical punches and matrices of various typefaces and dozens of books are on view at the Grolier Club in “Printing for
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Queen Elizabeth II by Cecil Beaton at the V&A
The photographs of the British royal family by Sir Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) were central to shaping the monarchy’s public image in the mid-20th century. her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was still a young princess when she first sat for Beaton in 1942. Over the next three decades he would be invited to photograph the
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Droit de suite levy threatens London’s art trade
From New Year’s Day under European legislation the UK’s art dealers and auctioneers must pay the heirs or estates of artists deceased within 70 years up to 4% of the sale price of each work they sell for more than €1,000 (£840). Cataloguing, preserving and validating collections are all currently done by heirs and estates
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