Artists’ commissions, tech gifts and guns: the legal issues facing US museums

Whats keeping museum lawyers up at night? The new future. That was the message at the annual meeting of more than 200 museum professionals and lawyers in Dallas in March. They discussed how to stay out of trouble when commissioning installation and performance art, how to prepare for changes to US tax law and how best to collaborate with technology companies. The programme was organised by the American Law Institute and cosponsored by the Smithsonian Institution. Here are our picks of the most p