Gulf Shores artist Michael Swiger is defending his now-rejected design for the 2025 National Shrimp Festival poster, saying it’s a case of “art appropriation,” not plagiarism. The Coastal Alabama ...

The phrase “cultural appropriation” appears in many forms and many contexts. And the debates surrounding it have swelled periodically, especially in the last 20 years. But what does it really mean, ...

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 ...

The style of art known as appropriation art has intensified since the 20th Century when cubist artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque incorporated non-art objects into their collage practice. In ...