Question: If Rollins seeks to make money off his original art (i.e. by being compensated for the jewellery, for example), does he also need Quavo’s permission to do so? Because he’d be making money off of Quavo’s image or likeness?

Good luck to him but I can totally see how they would assume this was a ‘gift’ from the artist, and I don’t know if they would be wrong on this one. If it wasn’t an image of the artist sent to them directly via twitter (like so much fan art) then there’s more of a case? I’m not sure but it’s my sense rn.

i’m doing art right now by saying that’s not art.

So we need to upset and offend POC to teach white people lessons about how they shouldn’t make playgrounds from hanging scaffolding? WUT.

Yeezus, there is a big difference between censoring because of delicate feelings and the subject of the art not wanting to have their trauma trivialized, made into a playground complete with mini golf. But sure “White people can’t do anything!” is the real travesty.

Jesus.

I don’t think it’s just a race thing. A weird culture is emerging on the left where NO ONE can be offended, ever. Discussion is simply not allowed. It reminds me of what happened to the right a while ago with the Tea Party, where suddenly no one was “conservative enough” and it scares me. Because we all saw how that…

I don’t think most people here are saying that you can’t make art about people and cultures that are different from you. It’s that you need to do a lot of research and have a lot of conversation with the culture in question to avoid your art coming across as inaccurate or downright offensive. This artist took a pretty…

One thing I feel like is missing from these comments and the article. Is that the sculpture was pushed as “part playground.” Can you imagine installing a replica of a Nazi crematorium in the same way and not consulting any Jewish groups?

Are you kidding me?? This is a white guy making art SPECIFICALLY FOR WHITE PEOPLE, that’s the artists own words. But Native people live here too. This space is a public park where kids come and play (it was built to be a kind of jungle-gym). Not just white kids, all kids. The artists assumed no Native kids would be…

That might be a part of the dismantling of white privilege. And thats the part that most white people can’t wrap their heads around. No, when there is a more evenly distributed balance in power, we might NOT be able to do every single thing we want to, every single time. Equality can feel like oppession to the…

I know this article is about some serious issues, but can we just take a minute to ask, is that thing art?

Without consulting and considering the multifaceted points of view of the oppressed, YES, yes that is exactly the kind of world I’d prefer to live in.

This logic - that whites cannot understand the suffering of non-whites - is producing a new form of segregation. It’s racist.

I don’t know what it is about Ruby Rose, but I dislike her in an unreasonable way.

I think I am more amazed at your insistence that barely anybody knows some actress because you say so. I get your thought system that seems to make you the expert on Mo’nique, I’m just not getting your credentials for that job. 

“Popular culture” is characterized by the fact that most people do, actually, give a shit about it. I mean, you don’t have to be a scholar of the Frankfurt School to be bowled over by that bold fallacy right there.

Lol, you know what’s tacky? Deeming women’s body hair “crass” and “tacky” and daring to leave the house without removing it as a “behavior.”

Lenny Kravitz and Mariah Carey are famous singers/musicians who act. Paula Patton is/was not even that famous (she is arguably best known for being Robin Thicke’s ex-wife and more importantly a not-that-great actress, which is different from Mo’Nique) so what’s your point?

Ooooooh, I see. So whatever rumor you hear, if it’s about someone you don’t care about, already don’t like, or are predisposed to believe negative information about, it’s as good as fact. Got it.