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 23
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.
Canvas, Issue 16
This month, we bring you the latest on the legal dramas of art market heavyweights, evolving trends in art investment, the rise of AI-generated art, and AI fashion stepping into the spotlight.
Canvas, Issue 15
This month, we highlight legal troubles for big names in the art market, spending patterns of art investors, AI-generated art going mainstream, and AI-generated fashion.
Canvas, Issue 14
This month we highlight news of the effect of interest rate cuts on the art market, social activism, a groundbreaking green initiative, an explosion of immersive art, and more.