Law & Politics Why Is This Artist Trying to Anger Disney’s Feared Lawyers? It’s All Part of a Delightfully Devious Scheme to Stop Internet Scammers In order to bust T-shirt makers that copy artists’ designs, one artist baited them into deep legal waters. By Brian Boucher, Dec 12, 2019
Law & Politics Billie Eilish’s New Music Video Looks a Lot Like a Shoot From Maurizio Cattelan’s Toiletpaper Magazine—See the Striking Resemblance Here Director Dave Meyers has been sued twice for allegedly plagiarizing the work of artists in music videos for Kendrick Lamar and Ariana Grande. By Naomi Rea, Jun 11, 2019
Art World Do TV Shows Ever Get the Art World Right? Here Are 14 (Even More) Memorable Episodes That Try, Ranked by Believability In part three of our series, we rank episodes from the most ridiculous to the totally realistic. By Artnet News, May 30, 2019
On View Jeff Koons Wants to Teach Brits About Transcendence With His New Show at Oxford—and Tickets Are Selling Out Fast The mini-retrospective includes keys works from across the artist’s career. By Naomi Rea, Feb 6, 2019
Art World Art Industry News: Why Artists Have Started Deleting Their Instagram Accounts + Other Stories Plus, Fearless Girl moves to the New York Stock Exchange and mega-curator Kasper König is under fire for comments he made at a panel. By Artnet News, Dec 11, 2018
Law & Politics Jeff Koons Was Found Guilty of Copying a French Advertisement. But Why Hasn’t The Woman Behind the Ad Gotten Any Credit? The ad campaign’s female co-author, Elisabeth Bonamy, has a bone to pick with Franck Davidovici. By Naomi Rea, Nov 22, 2018
Art World From the Art World’s Biggest Power Players to Jeff Koons’s Embarrassing Day in Court: The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week Catch up on this week's news—fast. By Caroline Goldstein, Nov 10, 2018
Law & Politics Jeff Koons Is Found Guilty of Plagiarism in Paris and Ordered to Pay $168,000 to the Creator of an Ad He Appropriated A French adman claims victory in his legal battle with the US artist over a surreal campaign featuring a rescue pig and freezing model. By Naomi Rea, Nov 9, 2018
Art World Art Industry News: Kusama Foundation Blasts Chinese ‘Infinity Room’ Ripoffs as ‘Contemptible’ + Other Stories Plus, a man is arrested for trying to damage the Magna Carta and a look at how artificial intelligence is shaping the museum experience. By Artnet News, Oct 29, 2018
Art Guides From Bruegel in Vienna to Basquiat in Paris, Here Are 38 Must-See Museum Shows Worth Traveling for This Fall Globetrotting art lovers have a lot to look forward to in the coming season. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 16, 2018
Art World What I’ve Learned About Copies: Maurizio Cattelan on Dafen, China’s (Unoriginal) Town of Master Art Copyists In the finale of a three-part series, the artist tells the strange story of the village where Chinese painters copy masterworks all day long. By Maurizio Cattelan, Oct 2, 2018
Art World Another Eye-Popping Restoration Fail to Damien Hirst’s Not-So-‘Beautiful’ Track Record: The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week Catch up on this week's news—fast. By Caroline Goldstein, Sep 14, 2018
Law & Politics Artist Hank Willis Thomas Pulls Work From a South African Art Fair After a Photographer Levels Plagiarism Charges The artist says he hopes to have a debate with the photographer who cried foul. By Eileen Kinsella, Sep 13, 2018
Art World Is This Painting by Josh Smith or Mose Tolliver? A Vigilante Instagram Account Is Shaming the Copycats of the Art World The anonymous Instagram account @whos____who has become a popular platform for debating issues of appropriation and plagiarism in the art world. By Rachel Corbett, Jun 5, 2018
Art World Is Damien Hirst’s Latest Series a Ripoff of an Aboriginal Australian Artist? See the Works Side-by-Side Some say Damien Hirst’s latest “Veil Paintings” are strikingly similar to works by Emily Kame Kngwarreye and other female Aboriginal artists. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 30, 2018