What a pisser! Lazy post. Sorry.
More to come on more things. Soon. I promise. In the meantime, here’s a link to an article I wrote for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, ‘Expertise Goes…
Is it right to copy? Visual artists and copyright.
I’m not going to go over the well-trodden ground that is the appropriation debate, covered here and here. But I am going to throw this one into…
Nothing new under the sun: lessons in appropriation 101
Ever since Marcel Duchamp signed a (thankfully, factory-fresh) urinal ‘R.Mutt’ and presented it at the 1917 Society of Independent Artists’ exhibition in New York (illustrated at…
Appropriate this: Artists’ intellectual property rights through the Looking Glass
I’d really like to hear Sherrie Levine’s take on this one. Or Marcel Duchamp’s, for that matter. Everyone’s favourite poster-maker, Shepard Fairey, was responsible for one…
Art matters 