Early on, he gives a very self-serious mini-speech about being in the New York art world and name-drops major retrospectives in a way that reads as simultaneously boastful and oddly defensive.
YOUTUBE aVeT0lWysqA Patrick Cariou published Yes Rasta (photographs of Rastafarians in Jamaica). Richard Prince used portions of those photos in 30 artworks shown at Gagosian. District court (S.D.N.Y., 2011): held Prince’s works were infringing, in part because the court thought the new works had to “comment on” or “critically refer back” to Cariou to be transformative, and it issued a very aggressive injunction (including impoundment/destruction-type relief).