art letter | no. 5. 2024 | september

Conde Nast, Warhol Orange Prince

This is the second of a three-part series commenting on the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith. (Read part 1: the new law of creation.)

For most of human history, artists have taken from each other, building new from what they have stolen. Almost all of Andy Warhol’s body of work—including a series of silk-screen prints and drawings of the rock star Prince—is based on photographs taken by others. . .

 

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Read David’s Art Letter essay, Warhol and the Supreme Court, Part 2: The new problem, featured in Oregon ArtsWatch

 

art letter | no. 4. 2024 | september

Conde Nast, Warhol Orange Prince

The Supreme Court has recently upended what artists thought they knew about the line between inspiration and copying.

Late last year, in Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (2023), the Court ruled that the publication by Condé Nast of one of Andy Warhol’s silk-screen prints of the rock musician Prince violated the copyright of the photographer whose photo Warhol had radically transformed. . .

 

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Read David’s Art Letter essay, Warhol and the Supreme Court: Nothing comes from nothing, featured in Oregon ArtsWatch