Art & the Law

by | Dec 8, 2018 | Featured

Lawyers have had a relationship with the arts dating back centuries. In this new technological age, what are the finer points of art and law in the 21C? Social media and the internet pose new challenges for artists in defence of their copyright and artist attribution....

Protecting the Great Art in Our World

by | Dec 7, 2018 | Arts

The recent destruction of ancient historical and cultural heritage sites by Islamic State in Iraq and Syria motivates me to ponder upon how we are protecting the great art in our world. That these morons are loose in parts of the world is a great shame to those of us...

Surveillance Art

by | Dec 6, 2018 | Arts

Are you into surveillance art? Do you like to watch? Like Chauncy Gardener, in the film Being There by Hal Ashby and starring the late Peter Sellers? Many people prefer to watch unobtrusively. The voyeur is a very 21C role. Surveillance is big business these days, as...

Is the Art World Healthy?

by | Dec 5, 2018 | Featured

The overwhelming majority of people live and work outside of the art world. Art is a foreign place. Artists inhabit a largely alien environment that ordinary people occasionally hear about in the media. The art world is peopled by artists driven to create, investors...

Beautiful Faces: The Living Portrait

by | Dec 4, 2018 | Featured

It can be posited that every woman and man who wears makeup is a walking, talking piece of art. Cosmetics and beauty products are, in part, body paint, with which to adorn the face and other areas. Beautiful faces: The living portrait is a brief exploration of this...