The New Exhibition Examining Appropriation in Art

Bombarded as we are by images these days – whether through billboard advertising, our social media feeds, or the online world in general – we rarely give our frantic consumption of them a second thought. This month, a new exhibition at London’s Skarstedt Gallery is asking that we pause to do just that. The cue for such a moment of reflection? A show of work by artists who have made the appropriation of photographic imagery from advertising campaigns, magazines, the internet, and found…