The Guggenheim recently repurposed the term, “decommissioning,” to designate works in its permanent collection that it has “deemed to be non-viable.”
Peter Karol
Peter J. Karol is a professor of law at New England Law | Boston, where he is also director of the school’s Intellectual Property Law Certificate Program. His scholarship focuses on the interrelationship between intellectual property laws and the creation, collection and sale of contemporary, new media and conceptual art. His most recent article, Permissive Certificates: Collectors of Art as Collectors of Permissions, appeared in the October 2019 issue of the Washington Law Review.