“The nylon sculpture is based on a porcelain figurine of a ballerina in a blue tutu,” is not a proper attribution if you know who made that original porcelain figure. It’s bad artist-form, the kind of thing that would get work marked down in art school. Copying is fine — but you must tell WHO you copied from.

So there is a long history of having a “master” artist with many apprentices who would help do the work, but the master would do the finishing touches and sign it and take all the credit. For example, Michaelangelo didn’t paint the Sistine Chapel all by himself. So Koons employing other artists who don’t get their…

It sounds like Koons first lied about his inspiration for the piece, rather than immediately state that it was based on another artist’s work, which is why people are mad at him. No shame in basing one work off another — like, a LOT of art history from all ages is about copies — but you have to fess up immediately or…

Thank you for knowing so much more than I do about this :)

FWIW, Warhol was very open about his use of other people’s imagery, photographs, and objects in his art. Lichtenstein liked to pretend he had only copied his style from comic books, not that he copied actual panels of other people’s art.

I love your handle. It makes my skin crawl.

He is Trump-esque, isn’t he? I’ve never met Bikram, but I’ve heard stories like yours about him (although not usually quite so triumpant -- good job). No idea how that guy came up with such a popular yoga sequence — honestly, I’m not a fan, but there is certainly a lot of merit in the sequence.

Anyway, when I saw he…

I think that’s what the whole impeachment process is about. I’m sure it can happen at lower levels of our government as well.

Trump is celebrating having a 48% approval rating? Da fuq?

I had a real life “love at first sight” situation with my husband of 3 years (and boyfriend for 8 before that). And I was not a believer in love at first sight. So...yes. It may just be an intense crush, and in a few years they’ll hate each other, or it’s true love.

(1)Because the whole story in this new movie clearly takes place over the course of about a week (one character states that Belle’s father was missing for all of five days), I don’t think you can blame Stockholm Syndrome for the love that blossoms between Belle and the Beast. Plus, their relationship did develop in a…

I think I see where you are coming from, and I respect your general cool headedness throughout this thread. Personally, I think it’s more fun to rant about the things that are in and of themselves inconsequential but indicative of larger problems than it is to rant about the more dangerous things. Observing that…

Pretty sure a tuna on rye sandwich is too New York Jewish for ISIS. Maybe shwarma?

Honestly, I think we’d be less fucked, because then Trump would actually know how to make deals and calm things down if he was smarter and less narcissistic. He might be more likely to get away with all the illegal shit we know he’s doing, but he’d be less likely to get us all killed.

Oh, no doubt Trump’s always been a deluded megalomaniac and/or a malignant narcissist. But it’s possible he may ALSO have dementia now. Not entirely sold on the dementia angle myself, but it’s possible.

I know Tink’s been recreated to be this other character for little girls, and that’s fine, but I was a big Peter Pan nut when I was a kid and “The Real Tinkerbelle” is always going to be the total bitch from the original story and the cartoon Disney movie.

My sister and I had a huge collection of stuffed animals, but my favorites were a small, pink bear named “Theda Beara” (I’m actually not sure who named her, I should probably ask, but it wasn’t me as I certainly wasn’t that clever at birth), and a brown, cartoony dachshund-looking thing I named “Woof Woof”.

Theda Beara…

I love that her handle is TinkerBelle -- always knew that little pixie was a white supremacist and fascist, working to eradicate the local indigenous population while simultaneously taking advantage of the local orphans.

But remember, McCain is a “loser”...

So what would be an appropriate cover, considering that it is a magazine in America trying to attract people to buy it?

I mean, it’s Psychology Today, a magazine that peddles a watered down, grade school level understanding of psychology mixed with photos more or less exactly like the one in question. And Trump the…