Talk about your conceptual art

Jonathon Keats, a San Francisco conceptual artist, has applied for a copyright on his mind. Honestly. He claims, in a recent Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal article, that it will protect his intellectual property rights until seventy years after his death. Additionally, he is selling neuron futures (toward the day his brain will be "liquefied" - presumably after his death), an enterprise which has netted a whopping $740 (US) thus far. It's my vaguely amused wish that he is poking fun at the current intellectual property rights bandwagon and the United States legal system in general, but we don't "do lunch", Jonathon and I, so who really knows?

Today in Art History:

• Han van Meegeren (Dutch painter), forgery trial began in 1947