Tag: Greg Allen
A funny thing happened recently. Artist, critic and our go-to appropriation expert Greg Allen has turned joke tweets by artist Jayson Musson (and sometimes internet art critic “Hennesy Youngman”) into paintings. Jokes such as, “I think Moby is on the N train rn but you just can’t go asking small bald white men if they’re Moby. That’s racist.” Ha! […]
What just happened? Well, artist Richard Prince appropriated the photographs of Jamaican Rastafarians by Patrick Cariou to make million-dollar-selling “Canal Zone” series of works; it’s been a legal, copyright infringement vs. fair use mess for five years. In 2011, the federal court ruled against Prince. In 2013, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled […]
Need some help figuring out the the latest update on the Patrick Cariou vs. Richard Prince copyright infringement case? Greg Allen has published a sequel to his already comprehensive book outlining the entire history of the case. After reading numerous articles discussing the matter without presenting any of their original source material, Allen decided to attain copies of and release […]
