Legal actions can sometime have unexpected results: Vital Law recently reported that a professional photographer who sued Getty Images for illegally licensing his photographs lost his case after the court found that he had already transferred his copyright over the work to his former employer--Agence France-Presse. The unnamed photographer had claimed Getty had continued to offer his photos for licensing after he notified them he owned their copyrights. But his employment contract with AFP included language transferring the copyrights in his photographs to the agency. Getty later signed a licensing agreement with AFP.

  Continuing:  Isamu Noguchi at Lever House Marking the 75th anniversary of both Lever House and Noguchi’s iconic Akari light sculptures [above], this exhibition revisits one of the most significant unrealized collaborations in the history of American modernism. When Lever House opened in 1952, it defined a new relationship between the office building and the public realm. SOM created an open public plaza where art, landscape, and architecture could be brought together. Wo...