This course will cover legal issues related to the production, distribution, exhibition and sale of works of visual art. Topics will include copyright issues, moral rights, branding concerns, theft, counterfeiting and the unique legal challenges posed by museums and galleries, including corrupt practices, deaccessioning, and discrimination based on race, gender, sexual and gender identities, nationality, religion and other personal characteristics. Students will be required to author at least one work of visual art themselves using ordinary household objects.?