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 ...

Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein’s work is instantly recognizable: the giant, colorful canvases; the Ben-Day dots; the distinctively comic book-inspired images. That last element has caused controversy ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - The work of artist Beth Bolander has been featured in Juneau’s annual Wearable Art Show for five years, and her contribution to this year’s show sparked a heated discussion about ...

Part one: The politics of abstract art: between the individual and the universal. Wassily Kandinsky and František Kupka: between metaphysics and psychophysics / Isabel Wünsche -- Creating the ideal: ...

An exhibition of Richard Prince’s portraits at Detroit’s Museum of Contemporary Art has renewed controversy over the artist’s use of appropriation after the subject of one of his latest Instagram ...

Music resonated throughout the room as six chamber choir members of “Voices 21C” sang “Adinu,” a traditional Sufi song. The audience comprised of students, professors and community members listening ...

Mitch Goodwin does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Coachella Valley Art Center Executive Director Bill Schinsky isn’t a fan of what he calls “pretty picture” exhibitions. He doesn’t censor and allows artists to create messages that make people feel ...

A personal example of appropriation confusion: I love the concept of dreamcatchers, and have one hanging on my window; I also bought tiny dreamcatcher earrings from a Navajo woman when I recently ...

The work of artist Beth Bolander has been featured in Juneau’s annual Wearable Art Show for five years, and her contribution to this year’s show sparked a heated discussion about cultural ...