Good news for artists! The producer and director Lee Storey won her case last week against the commissioner of Internal Revenue in United States Tax Court. The I.R.S. tried to disallow Ms. Storey’s deduction of expenses incurred while making and marketing a film.
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Art and Justice
As someone who once thought about becoming a lawyer, and turned to art instead, I am always intrigued by conjunctions of the two, so I was fascinated to discover that a book has just come out that examines the iconography of Lady Justice and her blindfold. Randy Kennedy’s review in the New York Times says [...]
FYI: Ted Kennedy and visual art
So few of the tributes to Ted Kennedy have mentioned that he was a champion of the arts, including authoring the Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA), that I thought I would make a note of this. VARA gives artists the power to control reproduction of their work and to retain rights even if the work [...]
