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Using that classic piece of art on a book cover: Grr…

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Walter Benjamin and John Berger might have a different read. What preoccupied Benjamin was how to understand the reproduction of works of art, especially in his seminal 1935 essay entitled, in English translation, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”. But this is not the case for works of art.

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When Doors Close, A Market Grows: Museums, COVID-19, and Cultural Digitisation

IPilogue

Claire Wortsman is an IPilogue Senior Editor and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Yet, in many cases, museums continue to profit off of and control these works. In 1972, art critic John Berger remarked , “For the first time ever, images of art have become ephemeral, ubiquitous, insubstantial, available, valueless, free.”

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