Proposal for an exhibition about U.S. Fair Use laws
FU A proposal for an exhibition that examines and beautifully illustrates U.S. Fair Use laws as they pertain to artists. Curated by Norm Magnusson CURATOR'S STATEMENT I’ve long believed that collage is one of the most important concepts in art in the last hundred years. Maybe the notion above is an original thought of mine, but maybe I read it somewhere; I can’t really be sure . . . does it really matter? Many think of collage as an elementary school pursuit perpetrated by pre-pubescent punks armed with safety scissors and Elmer’s ® Glue, but it’s much, much, much bigger than that. It’s the 2 Live Crew taking a piece of Roy Orbison’s classic “ Pretty woman ” and spinning it into their own song or the Beastie Boys sampling out the wazoo on the game-changing Paul's Boutique , it’s William Burroughs literally cutting sentences out of other people’s books and arranging them to create his own piece of literature, it’s Georges Braqu...