Richard Prince Made a Composite of Jerry Seinfeld’s Girlfriends, Because He Can
April 29, 2013 | Marina Galperina
After a triumphant overturn of the Cariou vs. Prince last week — a.k.a. the End of Copyright as We Know It (or something like that; it’s too early to tell; calm the fuck down) — Richard Prince must surely be pleased.
Behold! Jerry’s Girl,a new print from Two Palms Press. “This a composite of all of Jerry Sienfeld’s girlfriends,” Richard Prince explains. “There were 57 over the course of the show.” It’s an edition of 57 and available soon. ROFL.
Richard Prince is a notorious art world heel. He has gotten very rich from appropriating other people's photos. He's been doing this for years with magazines and advertisements, but now he's gone too far, PetaPixel alleges. He's been selling printed-out screenshots of other people's Instagram posts without the creators' permission…
UPDATE: The plot thickens. Artist and copyright subverter Richard Prince is a big fan of David Bowman's futuristic, "hard-boiled comedy" Bunny Modern. He tweets about it a lot. He's also a fan of deleting his tweets. Good thing we're all over it. Recently, Prince has been teasing his followers about being up to "something"…
So, I got a tip this morning on Twitter. Here is the cover to Bob Dylan's upcoming album “Another Self Portrait (1969-1971)." Does it look more like Richard Prince, the alleged ghost-painter behind Bob Dylan's controversially stolen-photo-based Gagosian art exhibit? What does Richard Prince tweeting this mean? What the what…