Center Articles

The New Art Forgers

In the Arizona State Law Journal, Assistant Professor Geddes from The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law argues that courts are moving toward a troubling new standard — “substitutive similarity” — that would penalize AI-generated works simply for competing with human-authored ones, and proposes that Congress instead strengthen artists’ attribution rights by requiring AI companies to disclose their copyrighted training data.

Canvas, Issue 27

This month, we explore takeaways from the successful Fifth Annual Symposium at SFMOMA, federal threats to defund nearly half of all graduate arts programs in the country, and Los Angeles’ first AI art museum.

Robbins Fellow Spotlight: Edward Loss

Edward Loss, a postdoctoral researcher in medieval history at the University of Genoa, has spent the past ten years immersed in some of Italy’s most extensive and least explored library […]

From Origin to Future: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Provenance in Art Collections

Coauthoring with Schneider, Ludwig, and Vollmer, University of Geneva’s Professor Antoinette Maget Dominicé examines the accessibility, transparency, and interconnectivity of provenance research in museum collections. Drawing on web-harvested data from Germany and the United States, the article proposes a systematic framework for evaluating provenance information.

Canvas, Issue 26

This month, we dive into record-shattering auctions, an authorship dispute at the Met, a whistleblower standoff in Palm Springs, and data showing that the West Coast is quietly becoming the center of American collecting.