{"id":13974,"date":"2025-08-12T13:37:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T20:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13974"},"modified":"2025-08-24T13:40:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T20:40:58","slug":"mr-prince-the-esquires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/08\/12\/mr-prince-the-esquires\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Prince &amp; The Esquires"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/richard-prince-deposition-video-2675326\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from artnet<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Richard Prince\u2019s Wily 7-Hour \u2018Deposition\u2019 Video Is an Instant Classic<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Under oath, with big money on the line, the appropriation pioneer puts in a gallant performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/about\/andrew-russeth-39227\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Andrew Russeth<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-07-at-2.37.15%E2%80%AFPM-1024x565.png\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>An image from Richard Prince&#8217;s\u00a0Deposition\u00a0(2025).<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I know that I am going to lose many of you right here at the start, but I have to insist that you watch the nearly 7-hour video deposition of Richard Prince that the artist recently exhibited\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.santandreadescaphis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in Rome<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is an unexpectedly captivating endurance piece\u2014frustrating, illuminating, baffling, and sometimes pretty funny. The Pictures Generation pioneer, who just turned 75, is one of our sharpest artists, but he is also prolific and uneven.&nbsp;<em>Deposition<\/em>&nbsp;(2025) is Prince at his best. I savored it in hour-long chunks over a week, and it reminded me of his rare abilities, while in some small way refreshing my faith in art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s set the scene&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/richard-prince-deposition-video-2675326\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at artnet<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from artnet Richard Prince\u2019s Wily 7-Hour \u2018Deposition\u2019 Video Is an Instant Classic Under oath, with big money on the line, the appropriation pioneer puts in a gallant performance. by Andrew Russeth I know that I am going to lose many of you right here at the start, but I have to insist that you watch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}