If one could buy a Picasso, a Van Gogh, or a Raphael, could they also invite the public to deface it? Imagine an exhibition allowing visitors to be participants, giving them the green light to paint over Guernica, carve initials into The Starry Night, or tear through a Renaissance Madonna.
Sawyer Elliott
“Good artists copy, great artists steal” – Picasso (more or less) Art has always lived in the uneasy space between originality and imitation. To create is often to take, to borrow forms, gestures, and symbols that already exist in the world. Theft in this sense is less a violation than