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New York State Bans Native American Mascots in Schools

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu November 23, 2022November 23, 2022

Sports team names and logos in the US have long reinforced derogatory stereotypes of Native people.

Posted inNews

Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Warhol Copyright Case

by Andrew Karpan October 12, 2022October 12, 2022

A lawsuit over how much Andy Warhol “transformed” Lynn Goldsmith’s photographs of Prince may change how courts look at art.

Posted inNews

White Artist Slammed Online for Copying the Work of a Black Photographer

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia July 12, 2022July 13, 2022

Controversy erupted on social media when users noticed that Gala Knörr’s paintings referenced images from a film by dayday, a self-described Black and queer multidisciplinary artist.

Posted inOpinion

The Fuzzy Line Between Inspiration and Appropriation

Avatar photo by Lise Ragbir October 14, 2021October 14, 2021

A story about a kidney and the drawing of a knee bring up age-old arguments about plagiarism and appropriation.

Posted inBooks

Victor Burgin’s Unclassifiable Take on the Passages of Art and Life

by Melissa Holbrook Pierson February 6, 2021February 4, 2021

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

Avatar photo by Joseph M. Pierce July 17, 2019July 18, 2019

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.

Posted inNews

Trump Satirizes Kehinde Wiley’s Obama Portrait to Fundraise 2020 Reelection Bid

Avatar photo by Zachary Small April 16, 2019April 17, 2019

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)

Avatar photo by Zachary Small November 9, 2018

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.

Posted inIn Brief

In Rihanna Photoshoot for Vogue Paris, Juergen Teller Cribs Imagery from Mickalene Thomas

Avatar photo by Zachary Small July 24, 2018

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.

The "Museum of Great Britain" scene from Black Panther (2018) (courtesy Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
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What Black Panther Gets Right About the Politics of Museums

Avatar photo by Lise Ragbir March 20, 2018November 19, 2020

In one scene, the blockbuster superhero movie touches on issues of provenance, repatriation, diversity, representation, and other debates currently shaping institutional practices.

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Grappling with Authorship and Acceptance in the Pop Art of Roger Brown

by Sarah Rose Sharp June 6, 2017June 7, 2017

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

by Anya Jaremko-Greenwold March 22, 2017March 22, 2017

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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