"There's been a lot of study in what researchers call the third domain," the museum's director, Andrew Ackerman, says.
There's cold comfort in the fact that all these works will eventually drift back into the market and may be returned, in more enlightened future, to the public domain of museums and galleries.
(This is most familiar to museum goers as the courtyard domain of Alexander Calder's enormous, orange sculpture, "Stegasaurus").
Like a museum, the playground is "a domain in which public opinions about education, exploration, aesthetics, and public space abound," wrote Gabriela Burkhalter, the show's curator, in an essay to be published later this year in the catalog for the 2013 Carnegie International, the museum's contemporary-art survey in the fall.
But now two beautiful portraits will be together in the public domain, in two museums of world fame," Pijbes said.
As art critic Tyler Green pointed out online, though, other American museums have hopped on the public domain train before.
He really cares about what he sees as a crisis in the art world, that small domain of artists, aficionados, collectors, dealers, museum officials and writers in which he has long been a well-known critic.
One such domain would be that of "art museums," "artworks," and "artists", with the relationships "created" and "exhibit in".
Kraken by China Miéville In the slightly fictional British Museum of Natural History, museum curator Billy Harrow is giving a tour of his domain, the climax of which is a giant squid preserved in formalin.
Starr: It's not only museums that are selling licenses for images of public domain artworks.
