Spying for Art’s Sake

The Neighbors1You are allowed to spy on your neighbours… as long as you do it with an artistic aim. A Court in US has ruled that it is defensible under the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech, and that such art needs no consent to be made or sold.

You know, this is spying for Art’s Sake (The Guardian, “The art of peeping: photography at the limits of privacy”)

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Arne Svenson, The Neighbors

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