This program covers a broad range of topics for museum professionals, attracting an equally varied audience base. Registrars, in-house counsel, directors, outside counsels, etc., are expected to be in attendance and will benefit from new speakers...
Museums Articles
Incident Management: What Role Does Legal Play?
Barbara D. Andrews of California Academy of Sciences discusses the use of an "Incident Command System" to effectively manage major incidents within an organization. This highlight is part of the on-demand series from the Legal Issues in Museum...
Immigration Regulations Impact
Elena J. Voss of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Dan H. Berger of Curran & Berger LLP discuss the recent changes in immigration policy and its potential impact on museums. Voss also discusses drafting exhibition agreements and responsible...
Museums and Technology: Emerging Legal Issues
Jeffrey De Blois of the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston discusses an art exhibit, its technology, and the challenges the piece presented to the museum from a curator's perspective. S. Jason Balesta of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Non-Profit Tax Law: What’s Trending
Laura Damerville of the Smithsonian Institution and Sara Geelan of the Barnes Foundation discuss the new tax law and how tax-exempt employers are now taxable when they pay certain fringe benefits to their employees such as monthly parking passes....
The Intersection of Art and Science with Diemut Strebe
Diemut Strebe talks about past and current collaborative projects at MIT from American Law Institute CLE on Vimeo. Diemut Strebe is an artist in residence at the MIT Center for Art, Science, and Technology, and has collaborated with several MIT...
The dark web, surveillance dolls and Van Gogh’s zombie ear: technology’s role in art debated at Boston conference
The following article was originally published by The Art Newspaper and written by Martha Lufkin on April 26, 2018. Please visit The Art Newspaper for more. While artists and museums embrace futuristic tools, legal experts point to a number of...