Post photos of your stolen art
July 24th, 2008 by Alex Pickett in Urban ExplorationsIn this week’s Urban Explorer, I tackle local art theft and profile a couple artists whose artwork was stolen, literally, right off the wall at a gallery and restaurant.
It’s not a rare occurrence. Talk to any prolific artist and most likely they’ll have a story or two about pilfered paintings.
As I reported the piece, I thought about the good it could do to get pictures of the stolen art into the public eye. So, if you read the online version of the story, there are photos of the stolen pieces I wrote about.
But there are only two photos so far. If you’ve had art stolen, I’d like to post your photos, too.
So, if you have a digital photo of your stolen artwork, go to the Creative Loafing You Shoot page and upload the photo via Flickr. Once received, we’ll post the photos on the story’s web page. Just think of it as a digital milk carton. And, hopefully, it’ll lead to the reuniting of you and your work.
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July 24th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
What a great service to provide! As a group, emerging artists aren’t all that good at getting the word out about anything, being poor self-promoters and all, much less about crimes committed against them. Now, about intellectual property theft, as opposed to stealin’ the actual canvas… that’s a can of worms to open.
July 25th, 2008 at 11:36 am
The last point about intellectual property theft is a good one. It didn’t make it into the article, but the lawyer I spoke to said this is probably the biggest danger to these artists. If they never registered their art with the government, someone can steal the design and make it their own. So, advice to artists: register your best work.
July 25th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Likewise, if you stole some art, take a photo of it and put it in the same space….
July 28th, 2008 at 9:35 am
It’s the least you could do …
Also, if you do upload anything, try to put some contact info and where it was stolen, too.