Art and money have always been inseparable. During the past several decades, however, this relationship has been transformed by a new form of capitalism - finance capitalism, which has been made possible by the networking of new information, media and communication technologies. This is a...

The first law journal treatment of art vandalism, this Note considers intentional attacks on art works, primarily in museums and public galleries, and how existing laws fail to address much less control the crime. In light of the near absence of legal analysis of the issue, the Note aims to...

Scholars of literature have devoted considerable attention to what they have called confessional or personal poetry, in which Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and a series of other poets, from the 1950s on, made their art out of the experiences of their own lives. Yet art scholars have not analyzed...

This report reviews the definition of artistic originals and official estimates of investment in originals as recorded in the UK National Accounts. New data are also used to estimate the value of the UK stock of artistic originals. The report concludes that approximately £1.1bn more was...

The determination of a work of art as authentic (or not) makes a tremendous difference in the value of a work of art. Owing to the millions of dollars which can be added, or subtracted, to a work of art when an authentication opinion is made, lawsuits will often be the last resort of those...