— Collectors Sue Haring Foundation: Several collectors are teaming up to sue the Keith Haring Foundation for $40 million after the organization labeled their works as fakes. The roughly 80 works in question were rejected as authentic by the foundation in 2007 and subsequent appeals for review have been denied. The collectors are claiming that the Haring Foundation labeled their pieces as forgeries in order to keep the number of works on the market low. [Reuters]
— Photographers Rally for Cariou: In response to artist Richard Prince’s win against photographer Patrick Cariou in court last year, several photography groups have banded together to lobby the courts in support of Cariou and stricter interpretations of fair use laws. The National Press Photographers Association, Professional Photographers of America, and the Picture Archive Council of America, among others, have submitted a friend of the court brief to the judge currently reconsidering part of the Cariou v. Prince lawsuit and they are also contemplating hiring a Washington lobbyist. “The courts have taken an approach to fair use that we do not believe was originally intended,” said Victor Perlman, general counsel for the American Society of Media Photographers. “A lot of what’s going to have to happen in fair use is going to have to happen on Capitol Hill.” [NYT]
— Master Forger Explains His Methods: Over the weekend, “60 Minutes” spent some time with art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi, who was sentenced to six years in prison and dealt with $27 million in lawsuits for creating fakes for 40 years. “Nearly all the experts we met, they were serious, really serious. Their only problem was that I was too good for them,” Beltracchi told Bob Simon. In other art forgery news, Oxford art history professor Martin Kemp has spoken out to condemn current authentication practices. “There’s lots going on, from academic incompetence to really dirty stuff,” he said. [CBS, the Guardian]
— Who areHowDoYouSayYaminAfrican?: A look at “mostly black and mostly queer” Brooklyn-based artist collective HowDoYouSayYaminAfrican?, whose 38 members are creating work for this year’s Whitney Biennial. [NYT]
— Lonnie Bunch is Making Waves in D.C.: Here’s a profile of “celebrity” curator Lonnie Bunch, founding director of the soon-to-open National Museum of African American History and Culture. [WP]
— The New York Times editorial board has written a defense of the Four Seasons Picasso that Aby Rosen allegedly wants removed. [NYT]
— The Museum of Arts and Design in New York has appointed Robert Cundall as its deputy director and COO. [Artforum]
— The Armory Show is collaborating with Citi Bike to create 10 art bikes that will feature the designs of commissioned artist Xu Zhen. [NYT]
— Stuart Horodner will be the Art Museum at the University of Kentucky’s new director. [Artforum]
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