Faisal Abdu’allah: on money
Artist and barber Faisal Abdu’allah shares a highly personal account of his relationship with money. ‘…..For the love of money People will steal from their mother For the love of money People will rob their own…
Susan Royce: avoiding the hobbyist approach
What does it mean to turn doing what you love into a business? Art consultant Susan Royce shares her thoughts. I started working in the arts as a happy accident. I soon realised I…
Authentication Revisited
Authenticity certificates were explored in last month’s column (Art Monthly 355). This month we revisit the subject in the light of further authentication disputes and debates. Art Fairs have vastly increased in number over the past ten years…
Hiring people
Even if you are self employed, there may come a point when you need more formal assistance in your practice. For example, you might need to produce a large commission and need help for the period of a…
Authenticity Certificates
Public and private collectors and art market professionals have started to request certificates of authenticity to accompany the transfer of ownership of works. What are they, how are they used, who provides them and what is their legal…
Argentina: a tour around MALBA, the Museum of Latinamerican Art in Buenos Aires
London based artist Laura Malacart interviews artist/art historian Matilde Llambi Campbell at the Educational Department at Malba. Interviewed in 2012. Laura Malacart: Malba is an astounding museum…
Artwork Liabilities
The marked deterioration of Damien Hirst’s The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991 – the tiger shark in a vitrine of formaldehyde – was the subject of a prescient article by contemporary art…
Working as a sound artist
Jason Singh writes on working as a sound artist. This includes his experience of opportunities, earning, networking and workshops. What is sound art? Wikipedia defines sound art as: “..a diverse group of art practices that…
Editioning
If you work in a medium that can be duplicated, such as photography, digital or print work, learning how to edition and price your work properly is a useful way to sell. An edition is a number of prints…
James Bulley: on sound art
In this article James Bulley charts a short history of the definition of sound art, highlights how constant changes in technology might test the durability of work and explains why collaboration is vital. From its…
Change of Art
On 18 October 2011, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a programme, Change of Art, exploring ideas to ‘rotate or retire’ public artworks that have become ‘tired, decrepit or meaningless’, in the course of which legal and practical questions…
Will I be able to exhibit and sell photos of my performance if I haven’t taken the pictures myself?
The photographer will automatically become the owner of the copyright and moral rights of the photographs (which empower the photographer to…
Editions or Series: Picking Up The Pieces
A century ago Marcel Duchamp toyed with the idea of creating a box to hold notes and sketches for his works which eventually resulted in The Green Box, 1934, containing notes for the…
What is Sculpture?
On 27 July 2011 the UK Supreme Court (UKSC) handed down a landmark judgment that decided the legal meaning of sculpture in UK copyright law. The significance of this decision is far reaching, because UK law operates…
Helen Johannessen: working with designers and manufacturers
Commissioning somebody else to manufacture and distribute your own designs can be a daunting prospect. Designer Helen Johannessen talks about her own experiences with this process. Helen describes how she moved from making…
Commissioning and running a commercial website for artists
Is your website doing the job of selling your work? And do you know what you need to do if you hold customers’ data? Or who owns copyright in your website? This…
Is my work protected by copyright or design rights?
This is a question that is not always easy to answer as there is a significant overlap between the two. Own It have written a downloadable pdf that attempts to reply to…
Sotheby’s and Christie’s
The new year ushered in several important judicial decisions dealing with artlaw matters, including the Bacon Estate; the Sotheby’s and Christie’s so called ‘price fixing’ case; payments to artists of royalty fees by UK Universities; and Gilbert…