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 ...

This is my original drawing of the cartoon. Haendel took my cartoon and reproduced it exactly in a different medium: graphite, as opposed to my pen and ink. He then framed the drawing and hung it on a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Left to right: Claudia Ray (Goose), Virgina Rutledge (Egg), Anthony Falzone; Center bottom image: "Smokin’ Joe Ain’t Jemama" in Hank Willis Thomas's "Unbranded,'' (1978/2006) from the book ''Pitch ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...