Sunday, July 26, 2015

Tyler Cowen on Germany's proposed new "public trust" law

He notes that "so far the proposed policy is not working out well.  Collectors are rushing to take their loans off museum walls and get them out of the country, or hold them incognito."

Also:  "Apparently Gerhard Richter is a hard-core libertarian, like most other painters, because he asserted: 'No one has the right to tell me what I do with my images.'"