Büchel’s Attorney Attacks MASS MoCA

Attorney Donn Zaretsky has posted on his Art Law Blog his letter to MASS MoCA regarding its dispute with his client, Christoph Büchel, over the artist’s aborted mega-installation.
Zaretsky writes:
The essential point to understand is that the Visual Artists Rights Act is there to prevent the exhibition of works of art that have been distorted or modified—and the museum is doing exactly that….No amount of “tarp” can cover that up….If the museum follows through on this plan [to display the incomplete, covered-up work], rest assured that we will seek all available remedies, including for all past violations (on which see the May 23 “Exhibitionist” blog post by the Boston Globe’s Geoff Edgers, wondering “who hasn’t” already seen the show).
Messier and messier…