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Posted: 2015-06-30T13:16:26Z | Updated: 2017-12-07T03:20:09Z

Imagine waking up one morning to discover an acclaimed artist has made an artwork out of your Instagram photo. He blew the image up, added a snarky caption, and placed it alongside 37 other Instas in one of the worlds foremost galleries. How would you feel? Flattered? Perturbed? Enraged?

Now, would your response change if you learned said artist sold the blown-up Instagram photo for $90,000? What if most of the images, yours included, were sexualized shots of beautiful women?

This may seem like a strange thought experiment, but its exactly what Richard Prince did in New Portraits, a 2014 show that sparked controversy for the way it repurposed social media images from celebrities and unknown teenagers alike. Some lauded the works as genius commentary on an era of digital oversharing, while others found them appalling, even accusing Prince of theft.