Stories
Aurelian Lawyers & Advisers regularly blogs about art news, cases, events and other updates for the industry in Australia and internationally.
Meet our Guest with Artists Nell and Tony Albert
Guest Work Agency has been advising the artists on their commissioning arrangement with Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art and fabricators UAP. For this edition of Meet our Guest, our Director and Founder, Alana Kushnir spoke to the artists about collaborating on this exciting project.
“The Rogue Gallery Owner and the Missing Art”
In Australia it is extremely rare for an art story to hit the front page of a mainstream, national newspaper. Congratulations to Chief Reporter of The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, Chip Le Grand, for covering 'Rogue Gallery Tristian Koenig and the Case of the Missing Artworks.
The Launch of "Phygital" Art Tech Platform Zien
Guest Work Agency has provided advice to art tech platform Zien on stakeholder mapping and how to transform complex legal and regulatory documents into accessible, user-friendly tools.
Legal Lab Live: Forging Creative Agency in the Metaverse
Guest Work Agency Director Alana Kushnir featured on Serpentine’s first Legal Lab Live session as part of its 2022 Twitch series.
Guest Work Agency Announced as a 2022 Australian Law Awards Finalist in Two Categories
Guest Work Agency (GWA) Director & Founder, Alana Kushnir, has been shortlisted for Innovator of the Year and Sole Practitioner of the Year in the Lawyers Weekly Australian Law Awards.
Guest Work Agency Advises Artist Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran on his First Major Monograph
Guest Work Agency has advised Sri Lankan Australian artist Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran on the legal aspects of his first major monograph, published by Thames & Hudson.
Art Case update - June 2022
Guest Work Agency is your go-to source on art-related legal cases and law reform in Australia, as well as select cases internationally. In this story, our Director and Founder, Alana Kushnir and Paralegals, Mia Schaumann and Jess Olford report on the Full Federal Court of Australia’s recent determination that an artificial intelligence system cannot be an inventor, the long-running copyright dispute between the Andy Warhol Foundation and photographer Lynn Goldsmith, an NFT trade mark dispute plus more.
The Art of Consignment: Mapping the Regulatory Environment of Artist-Gallery Relationships in Australia
Art law and advisory firm Guest Work Agency traces the regulatory landscape of artist-gallery relationships in Australia in an article written for the Australian Intellectual Property Law Bulletin.