Angelina Jolie has signed a long-term lease for a building that used to be the studio of two art world superstars , Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, for a period of 8 years to preserve art and utilize the space for her new creative business the “Atelier Jolie.” The building is located at 57 Great Jones Street in New York, which Warhol originally purchased in 1970. When Basquiat met him, he asked to rent the second floor to live and create his art from 1983 until the end of his life in 1988. The building has three floors and approximately 613 square meters of space. The front façade features graffiti artwork by anonymous artists. John Roesch and Garrett Kelly, both directors of real estate agency Meridian Capital Group, which manages the building mentioned that Jolie intends to preserve the building’s original atmosphere to showcase the working environment of Basquiat, and…
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Andy Warhol art violated copyright -Supreme Court rules
The judgment came out as 7-2, with Goldsmith as the winner. Despite arguments by the legal representatives of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, claiming that Warhol’s screen print artwork incorporated enough transformative elements to constitute a new creative work, the court found it unconvincing and deemed that Goldsmith’s work should be protected by copyright and entitled to the benefits from the fruit of the artistic creation. Background of the Case The story began in 1984 when Vanity Fair magazine sought to acquire the rights to Lynn Goldsmith’s photograph of Prince taken in 1981. The purpose was for Warhol to use it as a reference for creating artwork. The magazine intended to use the image as part of an article titled “Purple Fame” (to get along with Prince’s iconic song “Purple Rain”). At that time, Goldsmith was credited in the article, and she received $400 for the use…
