![]() ![]() The young artist actually had to surrender the works he made and pay Hirst a fine. Damien Hirst, an even famous-er artist, once threatened to sue a teenager who used images of Hirst’s diamond skull in art work that he had sold. Shepard Fairey has also been at the center of more than a few appropriation battles, chief among them the accusation by Mannie Garcia that Fairey’s Obama portrait failed to appropriately credit (or license) Garcia’s AP photograph that forms the basis for Fairey’s portrait. Mannie Garcia’s AP photo at left, at right Shepard Fairey’s portrait (image from ) ![]() Prince has also been the target of an appropriation suit from photographer Patrick Cariou, charging that the artist’s use of the Cariou’s photos of Rastafarian did not constitute an original enough object. Greg Allen short-circuited the conflict by appropriating his own image of “Untitled (Cowboy)” and republishing it as “ 300 x 404”, which later became a 20×200 print. ![]() Richard Prince famously refused Slate permission to reprint his iconic work “Untitled (Cowboy)” (2003), hugely ironic considering that the original piece is simply a re-photographing of a Marlboro advertising photograph by Sam Abell. However, this silliness hasn’t stopped appropriation artists from waking up one day thinking that their own work is now original and un-appropriate-able. Koons no more owns the copyright on balloon dogs than Botero owns the rights to fat people. We didn’t really have a chance to find out what Koons is plotting since contacting Gagosian gallery (who represent the artist) for comment is like dropping message-filled bottles into a big black hole of “not at their desk.” I can only imagine that the gallery would have few comments to offer, save that they’ll keep selling Koons anyway and don’t really care that targeting the little guy making bookends clearly aesthetically different from Koons’ non-bookends is not only stupid, it’s illogical. Will the maniacal Koons target mustaches and lobsters next!?Īt left, Koons’ balloon dog, at right, imm Living’s bookend (images from ) What would clowns be without balloon animals!? Clearly just a shell of their former joyful selves. If Koons should succeed in his suit to have utter dominion over all the balloon dogs he surveys, we all know who would be hurt the most: clowns, America’s greatest balloon dog producers.Ĭlowns of America International, our country’s august organization of “ambassadors of joy,” was unable to be reached for comment this morning, but we’re sure that COAI’s board members must be shaking in their oversized red shoes at the prospect of Koons’ legal actions. A cease and desist letter from Koons commanded that the bookends no longer be sold and the objects are now removed from Park Life’s shelves. The art world presents an overwhelming threat to clowns everywhere as Jeff Koons sues San Francisco store Park Life and Toronto creators imm Living for producing and selling balloon dog bookends that look only slightly similar to the famous artist’s balloon dog sculptures in that they both look like puffy dogs. ![]()
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