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Sotheby’s Institute Students Attend Art Basel Miami Beach

Students talk with Marty Margules at his collection in Miami

Last week about 90 Sotheby’s Institute Art Business students attended the tenth edition of Art Basel Miami Beach and were treated to tours and conversations with some of the art world’s most influential people. Highlights included private tours of the Margules collection with Marty Margules and the Rubell Collection with Mera and Jason Rubell, A tour of the Will Ryman installation and talk with the artist, a conversation with Jane Morris, editor of The Art Newspaper, as well as tours of the main fair and many of the satellite fairs with organizers, gallerists and administrators.  Students were also seen at many of the week’s flashiest events where tickets were hot and the hemlines high. Reviews from the events are still coming in, but one of the most interesting came from Jonathan Neal, full time faculty in Art Business and Contemporary Art, who posted this review on Art Agenda.

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Art Law

Richard Prince Loses Copyright Case

From Richard Prince's Canal Zone series

The New York Times reports today that a federal judge in Manhattan ruled against Richard Prince in the closely watched copyright infringement case filed by Patrick Cariou, a French photographer. Prince used more than 41 of Cariou’s images in a body of work he called “Canal Zone.” The works were shown in 2008 at

Cariou’s Photo Left, Richard Prince Canal Zone, Right

Gagosian Gallery in New York, and in St. Barts.  Cariou claims that Prince used his photos without permission, and that an exhibition of his work was cancelled when the gallery learned of the works by Prince. Prince has said that he has no interest in the subject of the photos, he finds them boring and was using time-honored artistic license that falls under the “fair use” law to make them into more compelling works of art. Judge Deborah Batts found in favor of Cariou, saying that Prince and Gagosian Gallery violated Cariou’s copyright. The paintings have now been impounded until the parties return to court in May. Read the New York Times story HERE. The Art Newspaper has also reported the story with a Cariou interview. Read their take on it HERE.

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