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.
Canvas, Issue 26
Canvas, Issue 25
This month, Canvas spans the full landscape of art, law, and the market—the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2025, a new U.S. copyright option, and Greece’s first art forgery law.
Canvas, Issue 24
This month, Canvas is packed with stories at the cutting edge of art, law, and the future of creativity—AI copyright wars, fractional art ownership, and Supreme Court decisions.
Canvas, Issue 23
This month, we reflect on an extraordinary year for the Berkeley Art, Law, and Finance Project—and look ahead to what’s next.
Canvas, Issue 22
This month, we cover the $102M Louvre heist, Getty’s AI lawsuit loss, Vatican’s Indigenous artifact returns, Trump’s arts commission firing, and fractional ownership democratizing art.
Canvas, Issue 21
This month, we cover deepfake legislation, Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement, the shutdown of Christie’s digital art department, and the $136 million Sotheby’s Karpidas sale.
Canvas, Issue 20
This month’s issue includes artwork legal personhood proposals, federal arts policy shifts, restitution cases, exhibition censorship, declining sales, new E.U. import regulations, and AI authentication.
Canvas, Issue 19
This month, we cover policy upheaval—Trump halts grants and proposes eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the art market’s mixed signals and cultural property law.
Canvas, Issue 18
This month, we cover the Trump administration’s actions against cultural institutions, heritage battles, art fraud legal developments, AI’s creative impact, and spring market trends.
Canvas, Issue 17
This month, we cover AI copyright milestones, major museum renovations, technological reshaping of art, traditional concerns in cultural heritage preservation, and art market dynamics.