Every week, we scan the media for interesting conversations about art. This week: thoughts on the changing meaning of “appropriation art” and the unexpected riddle about America’s most-purchased ...

Just inside the entrance of Westwood’s Hammer Museum stands a human-sized gingerbread hut by artist Nayland Blake. Left unadorned, its friendly, sugary scent wafts throughout the lobby. Across the ...

Appropriation art raises special issues of fair use. An appropriation artist takes the work of another artist and modifies it in some fashion and in the process creates a new work of art. Andy ...

Today, the Second Circuit handed down its much anticipated decision in Cariou v. Prince regarding the legality of appropriation art by artist Richard Prince. Prince’s paintings range from ones with ...

Dear oh dear, what are we going to do? Richard Prince has appropriated the appropriation of America. Has appropriation art finally gone too far, you might ask? Is nothing safe anymore—not even beloved ...

The recent Cariou v Prince District Court decision has brought to the fore, once and for all, the elephant in the art world and courtroom, Fair Use, which had, until now, managed to avoid close ...

The style of art known as appropriation art has intensified since the 20th Century when cubist artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque incorporated non-art objects into their collage practice. In ...

What does it mean to be original? Is true originality even possible? That was the underlying question of the recent show "Re-enactments" at Montréal`s DHC /ART Foundation for Contemporary Art. The ...

Back in 1984, Vanity Fair asked artist Andy Warhol to make a silk-screen image based on a photograph of the musician Prince, which the magazine had licensed from celebrity photographer Lynn Goldsmith.

I bought a record the other day with a price as insignificant as the name on the disk. I started out by walking down the stairs in a blank corner of Mount Auburn Street. The walls smelled more like ...