A story about a kidney and the drawing of a knee bring up age-old arguments about plagiarism and appropriation.
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Victor Burgin’s Unclassifiable Take on the Passages of Art and Life
The artist’s landmark experimental text, Between, now reissued, remains one of a kind more than three decades after its publication.
Posted inOpinion
There Is No “Pride” in Appropriation
As I experienced firsthand at WorldPride, the erasure of Indigenous peoples is alive and well in the queer community. But our culture is not a costume.
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Trump Satirizes Kehinde Wiley’s Obama Portrait to Fundraise 2020 Reelection Bid
The president’s action committee is selling the shirt, labeled “SPY” through its gift shop for $28.00. It also comes as a tank top.
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Jeff Koons Faces Fines After Being Found Guilty of Plagiarism (Again)
The artist must pay nearly $170,000 to the creator of a 1985 ad campaign that he copied for the 1988 statue, “Fait d’hiver.” This is just one of five copyright infringement lawsuits from the artist’s Banality series.
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In Rihanna Photoshoot for Vogue Paris, Juergen Teller Cribs Imagery from Mickalene Thomas
What’s stranger is that the two artists are both represented by Lehmann Maupin and listed side-by-side on the gallery’s online roster.
Posted inOpinion
What Black Panther Gets Right About the Politics of Museums
In one scene, the blockbuster superhero movie touches on issues of provenance, repatriation, diversity, representation, and other debates currently shaping institutional practices.
Posted inArt
Grappling with Authorship and Acceptance in the Pop Art of Roger Brown
A pair of exhibitions at Kavi Gupta gallery places the artist’s paintings and sculptures in dialogue with arrangements of objects from his personal collections.
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Protesters Block, Demand Removal of a Painting of Emmett Till at the Whitney Biennial
Artists are calling for the removal of Dana Schutz’s painting “Open Casket” from the 2017 Whitney Biennial, while others want more drastic action.
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Against a Feathered Headdress: A Tale of Two Performance Festivals and Native American Voices [UPDATED]
The same day that Latifa Laâbissi donned a faux-Sioux headdress at MoMA PS1, Emily Johnson created a collaborative event that championed indigenous voices and values
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Photographer Dennis Morris Sues Richard Prince Over Sid Vicious Images
Music photographer Dennis Morris is suing conceptual artist Richard Prince and his gallery, Gagosian, for copyright infringement.
Posted inOpinion
Artist Relocates Abandoned Detroit Home, Dropping it at the Corner of Appropriation and Ruin Porn
DETROIT — You can’t really talk about expatriate American artist Ryan Mendoza’s “The White House” project without talking about appropriation.