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## Opinion#### Comment | How much can one artist take from another before it is copyright infringement?An EU court's decision in a case relating to the sampling of a Kraftwerk track will have implications across the arts#### Comment | A view from the top of Manhattan’s famed Municipal BuildingA circular observation deck in the colonnade below the golden Civic Fame statue opened to the public last month, after a $6m restoration#### Comment | Why should artists stay in cities like London and New York when financial pressures are making it harder than ever?Josh Kline’s viral essay highlights how creative people lose gumption in the face of financial burden, but we should all strive for community instead of competing for the wealthy’s attention#### Comment | Georg Baselitz's final exhibition is a warning that history is repeating itselfSince the opening of the late German artist's Venice show, events at the Biennale and the result of the UK's council elections have continued to expose art's vulnerability to politics#### Comment | Opportunists are to blame for the Kennedy Center’s downfallThe argument that you can do good from the inside of an institution ravaged by the Trump administration no longer washes## Obituaries#### Betye Saar, assemblage artist who reframed racist and sexist imagery, has died, aged 99The legendary Los Angeles artist reframed charged images and objects, embraced printmaking and developed elaborate, transporting installations#### Remembering Valerie Brathwaite, the Caracas-based Trinidadian sculptor of singular abstractionsOver six decades, the artist developed a distinctive sculptural language in Venezuela and beyond#### Remembering Desmond Morris, the Surrealist painter and zoologist who explored the artistic abilities of apesMorris's eight decades at the easel left him among the last of the original Surrealists