Space Jam, Daddies ketchup – and other bizarre inspirations for high art

With his homage to the 90s animated film starring Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny, LA artist Devin Troy Strother joins the canon of pop art greats who immortalise funny objectsThe 1996 film Space Jam, in which basketball hero Michael Jordan stars alongside Bugs Bunny and other Loony Toons characters, has been immortalised in paintings by the Los Angeles artist Devin Troy Strother. Is this the most unlikely artistic appropriation of popular culture ever? The short answer is no, not at all. Pop art