WHEN THEFT SERVES ART

"Andy Warhol was an artist. He was also a businessman. As he famously quipped, "Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art." Warhol was great at both.

But Warhol's art was of a particular sort. Appropriationist is what some call it, as if there is art that doesn't draw from the culture around us. Remix might be a less charged moniker. Warhol created work that appropriated and remixed. Some of that culture was owned, meaning copyrighted or trademarked (think Campbell's soup cans). Some wasn't. But whether owned or not, the result was distinctly Warhol. He freely built on work that came before him".

In: Wired Magazine
By: Lawrence Lessing

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