Louis Vuitton’s Lawsuit Against Nadia Plesner Dismissed
Nadia Plesner, image via Eyeteeth Nadia Plesner, the Dutch artist who Louis Vuitton has repeatedly sued for her depiction of the designer’s logo in her work, has prevailed in the most recent copyright infringement lawsuit. The brand’s most recent offensive targeted Plesner’s painting, Darfurnica, with a €5000 a day fine for each day it remained [...]
Nadia Plesner’s Darfurnica Draws Yet Another Lawsuit from Louis Vuitton
Editor and arts writer Paul Schmelzer first wrote this article for his blog Eyeteeth. It appears here on Groundswell with his permission. Darfurnica (detail), Nadia Plesner, 2010 Dutch artist Nadia Plesner got in hot water with Louis Vuitton in 2008 for depicting an African child with one of its high-end bags on one arm and a [...]
Voina Update: Banksy’s Bail Money Declined, Artists’ Sentences Extended
Since November 15, 2010, Voina members Oleg Vorotnikov and Leonid Nikolaev have been held in pretrial detention. Their arrest in Moscow, following the anti-corruption protest seen in the video below, was made by Russia’s anti-extremism police under the pretext of hooliganism. In the months that have followed, Voina has been busy. “Our action “The Palace [...]
Funeral Procession of Free Artistic Expression – A Museum Censorship Protest by LA Raw and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics
LA Raw leads the Funeral Procession of Free Artistic Expression, image by Liana Aghajanian As promised, LA Raw confronted Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian Museum, with charges of censorship by marching their Funeral Procession of Free Artistic Expression through downtown Los Angeles. Clough presented the keynote address to the Los Angeles Town Hall meeting [...]
LA Raw Protests Art World Wrongs
On the heels of the LA MOCA whitewashing catastrophe that saw Blu’s mural erased, rides a new protest art group known as LA Raw. The group surfaced in the days after news of Deitch and Blu’s skirmish made headlines, with a modus operandi that seemed a direct response to the censorship of Blu’s anti-war message. [...]
