OR, MAYBE "THE CANADIAN BACON"?
Art Review | Richard Prince
Pilfering a Culture Out of Joint
By ROBERTA SMITH
Published: September 28, 2007
NYTIMES And borscht belt jokes? They are a signature staple that run rampant in the
show, appearing on modernist monochromes, on fields of checks and as
arbitrary punch lines for postwar New Yorker or Playboy cartoons. These
examples of a better class of humor are variously whole, fragmented,
steeped in white or piled into colorful, nearly abstract patterns yet still retain
their familiarity. The same jokes occur in different works, alternately
writ big or little, sharp or fading, straight or rippled as if spoken by
someone on a bender. "My father was never home, he was always drinking booze.
He saw a sign saying "DRINK CANADA DRY" - so he went up there.
"I wrote a note to a blogger. She said, "Tell me everything" I did,
and now she's doing my act."
Correction: October 1, 2007
An art review in Weekend on Friday about a survey of Richard Prince's
works at the Guggenheim Museum misstated the name of one artist and
misspelled the name of another. Both, like Mr. Prince, are known for
appropriation techniques. They are Wade Guyton, not Wayne, and Kelley
Walker, not Kelly.