MoCA-Buchel court festivities continue

A federal court last week ruled in favor of Swiss artist Christoph Buchel, overturning in lower court's ruling on two parts of the artist's beef with Mass. MoCA. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston in Boston ruled that MoCA may have violated Buchel's rights by continuing to work on his massive "Training Ground for Democracy" installation in Building 5 without him, after the artist and the museum had begun squabbling over the scope and budget of the work. They sent the case back to a lower court for a decision on those grounds, which could affect future artist-museum relations. The decision and its implications are laid out in detail in an iBerkshires.com story. Greg Cook also has a shorter take here. Apparently neither court ruled on the issue of whether Buchel is kind of annoying.