Last week, the New York Times published an op-ed titled "In Defense of Cultural Appropriation" in which writer Kenan Malik attempted to extol the virtues of artistic appropriation and chastise ...

In the 1960s, when Roy Lichtenstein began incorporating comic strips into his paintings, he framed the gesture as a form of ironic appropriation. His use of cartoons and comics was meant to ...

A work can reinvent the material or even serve as a tribute ... The concept of cultural appropriation emerged in academia in the late 1970s and 1980s as part of the scholarly critique of colonialism.