I love that they settled the case, and they’re immediately
running the show out there. I guess Richard Prince made them, and maybe the lawsuit
will draw more interest. The thing that I don’t remember anyone mentioning is
they do seem a little racist. I mean I guess there has always been a certain
level of fuck you in Prince’s work that I assume was suppose to challenge the
viewer, but somehow superimposing guitars into the hands of Rasta men standing
in the jungle and mixing them with pictures of naked white women does seem to
play into various uncomplimentary black stereotypes. Maybe that’s the point,
but Prince, being an old successful artist fronted by a gallery doing a couple hundred
million in profit a year, does tend to tip the work from cultural critique into
poor taste.
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