Canvas Issue Archive

This month, we reflect on an extraordinary year for the Berkeley Art, Law, and Finance Project—and look ahead to what's next.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This month, we cover AI copyright milestones, major museum renovations, technological reshaping of art, traditional concerns in cultural heritage preservation, and art market dynamics.

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.

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.

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.

This month, we highlight news of forgeries, federal lawsuits, endangered ancient world cultural heritage sites, women in restitution, art as a vehicle for action, and more.

This month we highlight news of copyrights and activism, fraud and money laundering, art-backed debt securities, tracking looted antiquities, cyberattacks, and more.

This month we highlight news of recovery of stolen artifacts, trends in the art market, the instability of the crypto world, artistic freedom, and more.

This month we highlight news of artistic freedom and the courts, the illicit antiques trade, trends in the art market, artificial intelligence in museums, and more.

This month we highlight news of copyright and the courts, fraud and the art market, activism and social justice, the impact of federal regulations on museums, and more.

This month we highlight news on current market trends, the loss of cultural heritage in a time of war, the EU’s landmark AI Act, and more.

This month we highlight market trends, art market money laundering, international cooperation to safeguard cultural heritage, risks to museums' reputations, and freedom of expression.

This month we highlight news on financial fraud, international law, Indigenous American repatriation, social justice, the future of art degrees in Afghanistan, and more.

This month, we highlight news on copyright, legislation, artificial intelligence, and the future of the art industry, and more.

This month, we highlight news on repatriation, education, legislation, artificial intelligence, the importance of the art market in the U.S. economy, and more.

This month, artificial intelligence continues to be at the forefront of the news, raising the question of its implications for the arts and more.

As we enter a new year, artists and scholars are reckoning not only with shifting prospects for the future, but with issues of the past and more.

We hope you enjoy the inaugural issue of Canvas, a newsletter dedicated to the art world and its intersections with law, finance, technology, culture, and more.