2008 Supplement Update to
A Visual Artist's
Guide to Estate Planning
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A Visual Artist’s Guide to Estate Planning is a comprehensive handbook designed to assist sculptors, painters, photographers, and others working in the visual media and their advisors in the planning and administration of their estates. Although published in 1998, with two main parts and appendices, the book is still current and the general issues discussed in Part I are as relevant today as at the time they were discussed at a conference co-sponsored by The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation and the Judith Rothschild Foundation.
Changes in the applicable state and federal tax laws and the copyright law have made it necessary to publish an update to certain chapters in Part II and the Appendices. The foundation turned to art lawyer, Barbara T. Hoffman, to develop the supplement and update, a task which she has taken on with passion and dedication. The current issues and the state of the art of the complicated issues confronting the artists and their advisors in planning the artist estate and foundation are brilliantly put into focus by the contributors to the 2008 Supplement Update, conceptualized, edited and organized by Barbara T. Hoffman.
In addition to a discussion of recent tax legislation changes at the federal level that have important planning implications for artists and their advisors, significant changes in the copyright law, the enormous growth and popularity in the artists’ foundations as an estate planning vehicle has led the editor to commission a rewrite of the chapter on artists’ foundations and additional chapters. The chapter on artists’ foundations has been rewritten by Victoria Bjorklund, Esq. and Thanya A. Polonio-Jones, Esq. Other chapters include “Artist’s Foundations and Museums: Reflections on the Survey and Other Musings”, by Barbara T. Hoffman; “The Anyone Can Fly Foundation: The Life, Career and Mission of Faith Ringgold, African American Artist, Feminist Writer and Children’s Book Illustrator, Par Excellence”, by Michele Wallace; The Judd Foundation, by Barbara Hunt McLanahan; Jack Cowart on The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation; and Artists’ Foundations.
The 2008 Supplement Update also has an entirely new part on artist’s archives. The Part includes the following chapters: by Barbara Hoffman, “Increasing Knowledge and Understanding of Art and Its History: Donation and Sale of the Artist’s, Photographer’s, and Architect’s Personal Archives”; “Artists and Archives: Making the Match” by Alison Nordström; “Preservation of Archival Material” by Professor Irving Sandler; and “The Archives of American Art” by John W. Smith.
With the 2008 Supplement Update, the Visual Artist’s Guide to Estate Planning should continue to be a useful guide and essential tool for all those who create visual images, their advisors, including lawyers, accountants, museum, and galleries and those concerned with the post mortem preservation of the artist’s legacy.
2008 Supplement Update to A Visual Artist's Guide to Estate Planning is now available online:
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