This page is intended to collect images created by Todd Goldman (of the David & Goliath clothing line) that some people regard as being plagiarized from other sources. Whether or not they are actually plagiarized is up to you.

Well, the evidence isn't really good for him, I'd say.

I mean, re-use of pop culture, especially stuff that's become extremely commonplace, is a well known and in my mind, fairly respectable practice in art... i like mashups, for example.

What bugs me is that this Goldman character appears to be a) profiting a *lot* from his appropriation and b) not actually admitting to doing what I described in the previous paragraph.

While I readily admit that in a world as big and as connected as ours, people are going to come up with the same idea on occasion, it strains credulity to believe that this particular professional artist just happens to come up with the same idea as so many others, so frequently.

Some examples don't mean much to me -- e.g. the gnomes. I mean, that's what "gnomes" equate to for most people, so of course it's quite similar -- but others -- Dave Kelley's piece and that final tshirt example in the Lenore section in particular -- are pretty tough to explain away legitimately.

If true, it's about as not cool as it gets.

Todd Goldman: Art Thief?