Is It Ours? Art, Copyright, and Public Interest with Martha Buskirk and Joan Kee

Professor of Art History and Criticism at Montserrat College of Art, Martha Buskirk’s publications include the newly released Is It Ours? Art, Copyright, and Public Interest (University of California Press, 2021), Creative Enterprise: Contemporary Art between Museum and Marketplace (Bloomsbury, 2012), and The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art (MIT Press, 2003), as well as numerous articles and catalogue essays. Her recent research was supported by Guggenheim and Clark Art Institute Fellowships.

Professor Joan Kee teaches in the History of Art at the University of Michigan and is a Ford Foundation Scholar in Residence at MoMA. Her forthcoming book, The Geometries of Afro Asia: Art beyond Solidarity, engages with Black and Asian artists and the vibrant worlds they initiate through their works and will be released by the University of California Press this April. Kee’s other books include Models of Integrity: Art and Law in Post Sixties America (2019) and Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method (2014). An occasional public interest lawyer in Detroit, she is an Editor-at-Large at the Brooklyn Rail.