After years of legal wrangling, the court ruled in favor of photographer Lynn Goldsmith, who was not compensated for the 2016 publication of a print from Warhol’s Prince series.
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Long-Running Andy Warhol Copyright Dispute Reaches Supreme Court
The court will decide whether the pop artist infringed on the copyrights of photographer Lynn Goldsmith in using her portrait of the singer Prince.
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Pantone Devotes a Shade of Purple 2 Prince
Love Symbol #2 honors the late musician, who was known as the Purple One.
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Warhol Foundation Moves to Preempt Lawsuit Over Prints of Pop Star Prince
Photographer Lynn Goldsmith claims Andy Warhol infringed on her copyright in 1984 when he made a series of prints based on her portrait of Prince.
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Prince’s Urn Is a 3D-Printed Model of His Home and Studio
The late musician’s ashes have been laid to rest in a custom-made scale model of Paisley Park.
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Prince’s ‘Sign o’ the Times,’ Part II (The Law of Genre)
Since genre is a perceived, externally imposed category rather than an intrinsic musical element, the job of assigning genre usually falls to the critic.
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Prince’s ‘Sign o’ the Times,’ Part I (A Solitary Genius)
For an ostensible masterpiece, Prince’s Sign o’ the Times (1987) is suspiciously lacking in overt concept.
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New Online Museum Gathers All of Prince’s Websites in 1 Place
What if, instead of being a hellhole filled with trolls and bad news, the internet offered “the definitive place of gathering 4 all who love life, love God, lovesexy … a new collective mindstate of unity, love and truth so great every human will want 2 join?”
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: an MFA student’s sculpture about campus gun laws violated campus gun laws, collector Aby Rosen forked over $7 million in unpaid taxes on art, and the painter of the Donald Trump micropenis portrait was attacked by one of the candidate’s supporters.
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Prince’s Home and Studio 2 B Come a Museum
In the past week, thousands of mourning fans have flocked to Paisley Park, the 65,000-square-foot Minnesota music factory where rock god Prince lived and died.
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The Most Beautiful Subway Station in the World: NYC Pays Tribute to Prince
Travelers through the Prince Street subway station in Manhattan yesterday may have looked twice at its signage that was temporarily transformed into a memorial for the late Prince.
