The phrase "arts lawyer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a lawyer who specializes in legal issues related to the arts, such as copyright, intellectual property, and contracts for artists.
Example: "As an arts lawyer, she provides legal advice to musicians and visual artists on copyright matters."
Alternatives: "entertainment attorney" or "cultural lawyer."
"I've always crossed it out," said one arts lawyer who declined to be identified, "and no one has ever objected".
"They are very invested in this case, and it would be humiliating to lose," said William G. Pearlstein, an arts lawyer in New York and a former member of the American Bar Association's International Cultural Property Committee.
Peter R. Stern of McLaughlin & Stern, a veteran arts lawyer and onetime outside counsel for Sotheby's, said that "given the stretched resources" of the government, "it seems hard to justify this trip in terms of time or cost".
Ralph Lerner, a leading arts lawyer, who is a partner at law firm of Sidley Austin Brown & Wood in New York, said that "it would be very unusual for a large public charity like the Smithsonian not to have this form in their records, since the taxpayer would need the donee's signature on the Form 8283 to properly claim the charitable deduction".
Worrying whether or not a print studio, foundry, conservator or restaurant may go bankrupt need not prey on an artist's mind, according to Chicago arts lawyer Scott Hodes.
— More Icky: On Marina Abramovic and her unpaid work (which I wrote about last week), artist and arts lawyer Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento writes about getting around the legal problem of actually having to pay people by asking for "volunteers".
Former students of mine have gone on to work as specialist arts lawyers, as PR agents, in fashion, or to run their own galleries.
Dominique Collon, assistant keeper in the department of the ancient near east at the British Museum, said today that alarm bells had been set ringing by reports of a meeting before the start of the war between a coalition of antiquities collectors and arts lawyers, calling itself the American Council for Cultural Policy, with US defence and state department officials.
Except, I'm informed by an art lawyer, contracts signed in mid-air are not valid.
"No one's rejoicing," said an art lawyer who would speak only on condition of anonymity.
Barry Werbin, an art lawyer in New York whose father was a fine-art dealer, says customers who buy art online are out of their minds.
