Exhibition Relief Funding
Museums and Galleries Exhibition Tax Relief (MEGTR) came temporarily into UK law to give financial support for mounting and/or touring new public-facing exhibitions in the five years from 1 April 2017… Continue Reading Exhibition Relief Funding
Laundering
On 10 January 2020 new anti-money laundering laws came into force in the UK that have wide-ranging, game-changing and undoubtedly controversial implications for the art market. The Money Laundering an… Continue Reading Laundering
Tariff-Free Art Trade
On Friday 18 October 2019, while the UK House of Commons was preparing to hold the next day’s ‘Super Saturday’ sitting to decide whether to accept the revised UK/EU withdrawal agreement and political… Continue Reading Tariff-Free Art Trade
Love & Money
There has been an unprecedented amount of media coverage of Banksy’s Girl with Balloon (2006) shredding incident since it took place at Sotheby’s London’s evening sale of contemporary art on 5 October… Continue Reading Love & Money
Art? Pension? Trust?
Summer time is the silly season when most journalists and politicians take long vacations and news media are filled with stories that are trivial or nonsensical. During the past few months an art news… Continue Reading Art? Pension? Trust?
Artists’ right to unemployment benefit
At a time of mass unemployment and world-wide recession, how does the unemployed artist fare in the welfare state? Will unemployment or supplementary benefits be paid? Does the state have a duty to me… Continue Reading Artists’ right to unemployment benefit
Dire Straits: in the gallery
Although great strength and power can be drawn from legal information and knowledge, the processes of applying and using the law are often regarded as too cumbersome, complex and costly to be of any r… Continue Reading Dire Straits: in the gallery
Conservation
Deterioration and degradation of contemporary art increasingly concerns specialists in the field of conservation and restoration. Such experts are being asked for advice and assistance from key actors… Continue Reading Conservation
Do you any up to date information regarding VAT treatment on commission owed to individual non-VAT registered artists from galleries that may or may not be VAT registered themselves?
The legal and business situation discussed in the 1979 article posted in the Artlaw Archive has been overtaken by many and various events over the past 36 years, and especially Directives on VAT intro… Continue Reading Do you any up to date information regarding VAT treatment on commission owed to individual non-VAT registered artists from galleries that may or may not be VAT registered themselves?
Authenticity Certificates Value
What is the essence of a Sol LeWitt wall drawing? What makes these works – which famously exist as a series of instructions, executable by anyone who owns them – authentic LeWitts and not just some li… Continue Reading Authenticity Certificates Value