A learning experience

A fine evening, as a Philistine among the anointed. My first exposure to the term “appropriation art” though not, I subsequently discovered, to appropriation art itself. Some of it I think I understand, the visual equivalent of musical sampling. Some I definitely don’t, the artistic equivalent of straightforward theft.¹ As ever, the web leaves me better informed, but no wiser. I give you:

• An Establishment’s View
• An Artist's View
• [A Lawyer's View] http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/conf1999/landes.html

Maybe you can make more sense of it than I can.

But the high point of the evening was most definitely wandering into the bathroom at the trattoria where we ended up for supper, and seeing a sign that read “Uomini Man”. For one, brief moment I thought I was in some sort of hipster paradise. But no, that’s where I had been earlier in the evening.