Editor's Message
Running Local
For at least the next few issues, my column no longer will appear on this page. Instead, an expanded version of it will be found in the Local section. As its title—“City Notes”—suggests, the column will focus on life here on the homefront. Rest assured that from Afghanistan to Arizona, the many senseless wars being waged in strange and forbidding lands will get their due as well.
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Conceived prior to the 2020 election and before “coronavirus” became common terminology, the Hammer Museum’s Made in L.A. 2020: a version, offers a trenchant and diverging array of artworks under the auspice of locality—Los Angeles as a lens, however ambiguous.
My Own Version of You
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Art Law & Art and the Law: A Dialogue Across Disciplines
By Yayoi ShionoiriSEPT 2023 | Editor's Message
The practice of art law has continued to develop rapidly in recent years, as stakeholders in the art world have come to realize that the innovative practice of law can support and protect artistic creativity. In developing the Critics Page for this issue, I wanted to highlight the importance of, and the challenges posed by, legal structures and frameworks in artistic practice. This Critics Page highlights many of these innovative art law issues that sustain (or contest) contemporary art practice today, bringing together several of the leading lawyers in the field alongside groundbreaking artists who use legal frameworks as their medium.
