Takashi Murakami is suing Marianne Boesky over the right to lend his limited edition wallpaper design to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The artist is demanding that Boesky return the digital master file and cease reproductions. The “Cosmos” wallpaper was an artwork which came with strict provisions regarding its reproduction: it could only be sold to 15 collectors. Boesky asserts that she and the artist had an oral agreement to loan the work to the Met. (more…)