Any day now, the Supreme Court will hand down a decision that could change the future of Western art — and, in a sense, its history, too. Blame the appeals court judgment from 2021 declaring that Andy Warhol had no right to appropriate someone else’s photo of Prince into one of the Pop artist’s classic silk-screened portraits. Artists piled on with a brief slamming the appeals court for “denigrating art that borrows, appropriates and replicates prior works as something akin to plagiarism or exploitation.”
Source: The Supreme Court may force us to rethink 500 years of art