Daniel Grant

Earthquakes in Los Angeles, hurricane batters the Gulf Coast, tornadoes rip through Texas, bomb blasts, thefts, fires, car crashes, sabotage: typical newspaper fare. However, for fine artists, an additional concern may be that those earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes and other acts of God and man may damage the galleries to which...

To the cynic, a college studio art education is the entrée into unemployability, and perhaps some of you may think that, too. Unknown artist starving in a garret sort of thing. First, let's dispel the idea that artists are doomed to being marginalized members of society. A study...

When a big break comes in an artist's career, will that person realize it, or know how to take advantage of it? Artists who are just starting out look to the future with boundless hopes, most to be dashed by the reality of getting a paying job, trying to find...

Why people create art is a subject for philosophers and psychologists, but learning how to create art would seem a more cut-and-dried affair. A lot can be attributed to one's teacher. Still...

It is not always clear exactly what a teacher develops in a student, as inspiration is rarely a...

There are at present two lawsuits by collectors against the artists whose work they have collected, which is unusual in itself, but what may be more unusual is that both legal actions result from decisions the artists made that adversely affected these buyers financially. The first action involved...

The mythical view of artists has placed them in their studios or garrets, waiting for the Muse to inspire some great new idea or image. Were that the case, the wait could be a long one, leaving artists with little to do between brainstorms. In fact, most artists rely on...

"Sustainable" is the new green. In a world where there is sustainable agriculture (farming that is adjusted to the local ecosystem), sustainable architecture (minimizing environmental impacts of new building) and even sustainable banking (socially responsible investments), we now have sustainable art, or art dealing with environmental issues.

In case...

An untitled 1970 color photograph of a tricycle was the top lot at a March 12th 36-photograph sale at Christie's of "Photographic Masterworks by William Eggleston," earning $578,000 (includes buyer's premium), well above the $200-300,000 estimate and producing a new auction record for a single print by the artist. (A...

Many artists are forgotten after they die, and some before they die. Theodoros Stamos wasn't so lucky. Stamos (1922-97), a painter who was part of the New York School of abstract expressionists, which included Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline, is remembered, but not so much for his...

What do fine artists do when they graduate art school? Teach? Sell their art? Win state and federal grants and fellowships? Dream of better things while working in a company's mail room?

Certainly, they can keep each other company since there are so many of them. According to the National...

"This is still a very young market, and we're adding new artists all the time," said Swann Galleries' Nigel Freeman. "This" refers to African American art, an area of dedicated sales that Swann pioneered back in 2007, holding twice-yearly auctions since then. Something else being added to this market is...

Unzipping her booth tent the second morning of an arts fair, mixed-media artist Patricia Hecker of Bloomington, Indiana knew that someone had been there the night before. Her artwork was OK, but a cabinet had been broken into. "I'm sure someone was looking for money," she said. Fortunately, she had...

Keith Urban versus Keith Urban seems more like the stuff of psychodrama than a problem of trademark law, although back in 2007 the well-known country-rock singer brought a lawsuit against a Wayne, New Jersey, painter with the same name for creating a KeithUrban.com web site that displays his artwork but...

Artists are open to all sorts of renown (commercial success, succès de scandale, their art and faces in books and magazines, their names known far and wide), but Rick Rush and Daniel Moore may be as famous in the annals of law as in the field of sports art. Perhaps...

Artists and craftspeople may receive money in a variety of ways, including awards and prizes at shows, project grants, scholarships and fellowships. The prize money or the monetary value of an award (the cash value of a gift certificate, for instance) that a craftsperson receives at a show is taxable...

On both sides of the Atlantic, the issue of artists' resale rights has jumped to the fore. (What are artists' resale rights? We'll get there.) In the past 15 months, several lawsuits by artists have been filed against collectors, art galleries and auctioneers Christie's, Sotheby's and even eBay for failing...

Go to any number of art fairs and art galleries, and you will find prints for sale among the paintings and sculptures. They are prints, because they were printed by some means, but after that it may not be clear at all how they should be described, and we quickly...

Beauty, it is often said, is in the eye of the beholder, and so might be copyright infringement.

Artist Richard Prince never denied that he made use of some photographic images he found in a 2000 book by Patrick Cariou called Yes Rasta, documenting the community of Rastafarians the...

What could seem more natural and time-honored? An artist takes an easel and paint set out to a field (a park, a beach, the woods, a city street -- whatever) and paints the view. What could seem more representative of a litigious society? The same artist rushes around to every...

Back in the early 1980s, painter Linda Hartough of Okatie, South Carolina was flailing about in the art world for a place in which she could make her mark. "I was looking for a niche, looking to concentrate on one subject," she said. She painted landscapes -- there must be...