Richard Prince: A Cartographer of American Dreams Richard Prince, born in the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal Zone in 1949, isn’t simply an artist; he's a cultural archaeologist, meticulously excavating the detritus of American popular culture and reassembling it into unsettlingly familiar narratives. His work—a sprawling collection of photographs, paintings, and installations—challenges notions of authorship, originality, and the very n…