Showing items tagged "Contracts"
Dragon’s Dance
This is the tale of Dragon’s Dance. It is a sculpture by Liliane Lijn sited at the landscaped entrance to a new Marks & Spencer shopping centre at Culverhouse Cross, Cardiff in Wales. ‘Senor, Senor, I can see…
Three Short and Unrelated Matters
Three short and unrelated matters are tackled this month: Contractual Relationships, Public Lending Right and Solicitors’ Advertising. Paper Promises How many contracts have you made today? Bet you travelled on a bus, tube, train, bought…
Agency Deals
The lack of gallery premises or adequate showing space has not prevented many actual or would be dealers approaching artists offering agency deals, with a view to promoting and selling the artists' work and their reputations. In recent…
Conservation Renovation & Restoration
The three cases detailed in this article all raise the same question, one which has serious legal as well as professional practice implications for commissioners, owners, curators and conservators – as well as for living artists:…
Exhibition Agreements
Most public galleries and many private ones put on exhibitions solely for the purpose of making the work of an artist or group of artists available for public view – selling is only incidental; these are usually ‘one…
Commissions and the responsibilities they bring, part 1
You are an artist. A public body asks you to design an artwork for a public space or place. You are promised payment 'if it all works out'. You are flattered. How…
Artists’ Residencies
At this time of global economic downturn, when governments across the world and especially in developed economies are committing vast sums of public money to prevent unemployment, some money is being ear marked to support artistic endeavour. This…
Art and Architecture
The art and architecture debate continues, with priority being given to the encouragement of collaboration and the desirability of obtaining large scale architectural commissions. The actual execution of this sort of work is less discussed, and could…
Bankrupt Galleries: A Cautionary Tale
Art galleries too are not recession proof, but what happens to the stock, the artwork, when they cease trading may be more complicated and certainly is unnerving for the artists involved. Auctions of liquidated stock…
Beware of Artists Bearing Gifts
It is still common and customary practice for artists to donate works to friends, family, museums and galleries. And it is equally common that such gifts are executed by informal methods, which can and often…
Public Art Commissions: Part 2
Last month’s column continues. Phase 2: Fabrication, fees and costs In this phase, the parties will be contemplating their having a successful design/model/maquette which will need to be fabricated; in which case, they will need…
Agents’ and Dealers’ Duties
Leonardo Da Vinci's drawing Madonna and Child with St Anne and a Lamb (c.1501 19) was the subject of a lawsuit decided by London's High Court in November 2010, which shed “a bright light on an…
What kinds of contract might I be expected to sign when taking on a property?
When signing any document it is essential that you understand its contents. The written agreement which you enter into for “renting” your studio will either…
Anticipating Future Uses of Work
A traditional assumption of many commissioners, owners and users of artworks is that artists should consider themselves lucky, even privileged, to have been paid for doing what they enjoy and therefore have few if any…
Editions or Series: Artists Be Clear
Misunderstandings and disputes often arise when two people interpret the same situation in different ways. Assumptions are usually the root cause; full, frank, and clear dialogue between the parties, especially in contractual negotiations, is…
Paper Promises, part 1
Exhibiting and selling work, one off and generally, has not been a high priority in these columns over recent years, especially since we explored these areas pretty comprehensively in the first five. But last month’s deliberately…
Commissions
I have been commissioned to produce a piece of public art. Can the body commissioning the artwork subsequently terminate the agreement? What should I do if a commission is rejected after it has been completed? What should I be…
ArtlawTV: Rene Gimpel on Gallery Deals
Gallery Deals – the artist / gallery relationship Art dealer Rene Gimpel of Gimpel Fils considers the relationship between artists and galleries, including contracts, gallery responsibilities and what commercial galleries do for artists. There…