The appropriation of mainstream/commercial culture by artists is nothing new — you can trace it back through Negativland, Craig Baldwin and other post–hip-hop culture jammers of the '80s and '90s; Guy Debord and the Situationists of the '60s; Duchamp and the Dadaists; and probably further. But in the era of the omnipresent YouTube mash-up, it might be harder than ever to find work that approaches appropriation as an art, with or without the subversive designs of the original... More >>>