Cultural Appropriation

The provocative artist’s major survey with British potter and ‘courier between East and West’ Bernard Leach invites the question: who has license to be so nonchalant?

The artist claims that he was taught ‘don’t borrow ideas, steal them’ by Michael Craig-Martin at Goldsmiths

On losing faith in generalism, learning to listen and embracing doubt 

Ways of talking about race and appropriation: Claudia Rankine, Hannah Black and Tate Modern’s ‘Black Art, Black Power’ conference

Searching for the appropriate in appropriation

A survey of international writers, curators and artists in response to recent controversies surrounding appropriation

On recent artistic appropriation controversies

On the intertwined histories of music, sampling and influence

Novelist Hari Kunzru on the current culture wars in the US

Poet Claudia Rankine and filmmaker Alix Lambert talk to the domestic ‘intelligent personal assistant’ about film, theatre and biases in computer programming

The politics of the choco-pie, a materialist account of ‘cultural appropriation’ and Acid Corbynism: what to read this weekend