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Would you take a 1 in 1,000 chance to own a real Warhol drawing?

Nov 10, 2021
Art critic and Andy Warhol biographer Blake Gopnik discusses MSCHF's latest project, which involves an early Warhol piece.
Visitors look at drawings by Andy Warhol at the Villa Schoeningen in Potsdam near Berlin, Germany.
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What does Warhol “fair use” ruling mean for artists and copyrights?

Art critic and Warhol biographer Blake Gopnik fears the decision will have a profound effect on "appropriation art."
Lynn Goldsmith’s photograph, left, and Andy Warhol’s portrait of Prince, as reproduced in court documents.
Courtesy of the U.S. District Court

Andy Warhol and the business of art

Aug 6, 2018
The avant-garde artist's business-art was arguably his most influential work of all.
A visitor looks at American artist Andy Warhol's "Campbell's Soup Cans" at the Tate Modern — a modern art gallery — in London.
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