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 ...

Gulf Shores artist Michael Swiger is defending his now-rejected design for the 2025 National Shrimp Festival poster, saying it’s a case of “art appropriation,” not plagiarism. The Coastal Alabama ...

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 ...

In the 1960s, when Roy Lichtenstein began incorporating comic strips into his paintings, he framed the gesture as a form of ironic appropriation. His use of cartoons and comics was meant to ...

Cultural appropriation can be a little tricky to understand. Even if you’re familiar with the term and know it’s something to avoid, you might have some lingering uncertainties as to where the line ...

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on who should be allowed to find their “spirit animals.” By Kwame Anthony Appiah I work as an art therapist at a hospital, where I invited a group of patients to ...