art letter | no. 5. 2024 | september
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. . .
Read David’s Art Letter essay, Warhol and the Supreme Court, Part 2: The new problem, featured in Oregon ArtsWatch