Art Law Symposium 2025: The New Deal in Art: Structuring Agreements for a Billion-Dollar Industry

On Friday, February 21, the Kernochan Center hosted the 2025 Art Law Symposium  The New Deal in Art: Structuring Agreements for a Billion-Dollar Industry, bringing together artists, collectors, dealers, museum administrators and attorneys to discuss how contracts, once shied away from, are now not only more prevalent but evolving to adapt to a changing art market.  The Symposium was an examination of what stakeholders are looking for in these documents, and how (and if) legal agreements are a solution in an industry adapting to the new ways art is created, bought, and sold.

The Symposium was recorded, and the video will be made available shortly.

SCHEDULE

Panel 1 -- 1:00PM

Paul Bain, Gail Albert Halaban, Jared Lew, Nina Levent, Pierre Valentin

Coffee Break -- 2:30PM

Panel 2 -- 3:00PM

Paul Bain, Kaila Brooks, Philipp Nuernberger. Stephanie Wiles

Reception -- 4:30PM
 

PANELISTS

Paul Bain
Partner, Dickinson Wright


Kalia Brooks
Director of Programs and Exhibitions, NXTHVN


Gail Albert Halaban
Photographer


Cathy Kaplan
Professor, Columbia Law School


Nina Levent
Founding Director, Sapar Contemporary Art Gallery


Jarod Lew
Photographer


Philippa Loengard
Professor, Columbia Law School, & Executive Director, Kernochan Center


Philipp Nuernberger
Attorney, e-G-C, & Co-Founder, Art Market Partners


Pierre Valentin
Consultant, Fieldfisher


Stephanie Wiles
Director, Yale University Art Gallery