Pop Prince Was A Putz Jul 7, 2008
TAYLOR Mead was one of Andy Warhol's most celebrated "superstars," but the quirky Lower East Side actor-writer despised the Prince of Pop Art. In his memoir, "Son of Andy Warhol," being shopped by literary agent Irene Skolnick, Mead, 83, calls Warhol a "gnome" and a "total phony" for ignoring friends, stiffing employees and using "hatchet people" to protect him from "anyone not 'au courant,' rich or newly famous, of-the-moment, a possible advertiser, [or] good-looking." He recalls once saving... (New York Post -- Gossip)
Artist finds her stroke Jul 6, 2008
Her subjects broadened and no one could predict what shed paint next, from pop art to exotic animals to foreign landscapes. As she branched out, she infused personality into her work. (Gillette News-Record, WY)
Spears shirt to auction for $20K Jul 5, 2008
Also included in the Rock and Roll Pop Art auction are Marilyn Monroes jeans from her film River of No Return, which had been a gift to Britney from designer Tommy Hilfiger. The jeans are expected to top the predicted bids for Britneys clothes, and could fetch at least $60,000. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol Jun 25, 2008
With clarity and candor Warhol leads us into the foundations of Pop Art's egalitarian stance while also revealing the individual artist that is Andy Warhol. A: You take some chocolate;and you take two pieces of bread;and you put the candy in the middle and you make a sandwich of it. (Suite101.com)
Read Indepth Article Jun 23, 2008
Pallant House Gallery presents the summer exhibition Colin Self: Art in the Nuclear Age, the most comprehensive display to date of works by leading British Pop artist Colin Self (b ... Colin Self first gained critical attention in Britain in the early 1960s when he became identified with Pop art through his use of imagery derived from popular culture ... Other pieces, in contrast, create often humorous narratives from found material in everyday life, as an extension of the language of Pop art. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Colin Self: Art in the Nuclear Age Jun 23, 2008
Colin Self first gained critical attention in Britain in the early 1960s when he became identified with Pop art through his use of imagery derived from popular culture ... Other pieces, in contrast, create often humorous narratives from found material in everyday life, as an extension of the language of Pop art. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel Makes Sizzling Splash Jun 20, 2008
Meanwhile, behind the sleek front desk, a colorful installation of fishbowls, repeating in a pop art pattern, produces an irreverent splash. This year, Renaissance has also completed major renovations in several major cities -- $24 million renovation of The Renaissance Times Square Hotel in New York, a $128 million restoration of the historic Chicago landmark, The Blackstone, a Renaissance Hotel, and a multi-million dollar makeover of The Shelbourne Dublin, a Renaissance Hotel. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Volunteer, change a life, gain a sibling Jun 18, 2008
Who s the father of pop art. Megan asks Kaitlin. (The Citizen - online, TX)
New skateboard boutique right up their alley Jun 18, 2008
When Unheard Of launches its full cut-and-sew clothing line next summer, it will co-design limited-edition items with national brands like DC Life or with the local artists displayed next door at the AVS pop art gallery. Reader Comments. (Cincinnati Business Courier, OH)
Succulents' simple lines form perfect 'mid-mod' accent Jun 17, 2008
America has rediscovered the open architecture, streamlined furnishings, pop art and bright colors that defined the postwar era. This mid-century modern movement has been clipped to "mid-mod," and it's hipper than ever before. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Sensational sandals Jun 17, 2008
Other styles of sandals have a bit of sparkle with rhinestones or colored "gems." Bright colors abound, and prints _ from floral to pop art _ are showing up on sandals. The thong styles are still very popular with many. (AZCentral -- Style)
Strange fiction Jun 14, 2008
"With all due respect to Kingsley Amis and others, I didn't feel that the angry young men were responding to what was really important about society. The same goes for John Osborne's plays. The laying down of the M1 was much more important than anything Jimmy Porter's father-in-law thought about this or that. The motorway system had a much bigger influence on freedom and possibility." For Ballard, 1956 is not the year of Look Back in Anger, as for many of his generation, but of "the wonderful... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Seeking out obscure music Jun 13, 2008
The store hosts listening parties for CD releases and well-attended openings for fine arts, photography, provocative pop art, and graffiti styles. There are two turntables set up with a DJ mixer next to the register and three individual tables in the back, so you can hear your vinyls on the overhead sound system or in high-quality headphones before buying them. (Boston Globe)
Tackling climate change, artist's career is red hot Jun 13, 2008
"Everything was Minimalism and Conceptualism. I didn't have that axe to grind. Then German Pop artists started showing - [Gerhard] Richter, [Sigmar] Polke, and I thought, 'What if I do a natural-history version of Pop Art?' ". Rockman delved into old field guides, eating up the detailed information. (Boston Globe)
Museum a Place of Beauty, Passion Jun 5, 2008
Many classify Thiebaud as a pop artist because of his use of bright, contrasting colors and comic-like images ... "It's unfair to say he's a pop artist because a lot of pop art is satirical and dark," Sheltra said. (The Daily Universe, UT)
Infotainment Jun 4, 2008
THIS amazing sculpture of Londons Big Ben gives Pop Art new meaning its made with Coca Cola cans. Artist Robert Bradford built his mini landmark for Recycle Week. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
Movers and shakers Jun 4, 2008
His work, which combines elements of graffiti, pop art and graphic design, earned him the prestigious Tollman Award in 2004 and a residency at Art OMI in New York (2005). Maluka, who has returned to live and exhibit in South Africa, also runs a website called and helps young hip-hop talent from the Cape Flats to get their work out there through his Avenger label. (iAfrica.com)
Art Alley gets facelift Jun 1, 2008
Alley founder Todd Rigione -- who first painted over graffiti there about five years ago -- and some of the people who own buildings along the alley want less tagging and more painting, whether it's pop art or impressionism. "There's some just incredible artists here, and then someone just comes and tags it," said Annette Ross, who works at Global Market and regrets that someone painted over a Superman mural across her store's back door. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Bill Wood: Photography of an unsophisticated outsider May 24, 2008
But to value his photographs of grocery store displays or car showrooms as a kind of vernacular Pop Art would probably strike him as incomprehensible. Selecting just 210 out of 20,000 images and arranging them in two wall-covering grids as the curators have done might also be mystifying to Wood. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
More of this story May 17, 2008
"Whether you see him in terms of being the bridge between abstract expressionism and the emergence of pop art, or you see him as one of the real precursors to the age of sampling, of borrowing, of appropriation, these are all things that his work has both anticipated and in effect opened the door for," Schimmel said. With his work in nearly every major museum collection, Rauschenberg's influence will go on. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Robert Rauschenberg's art challenged assumptions May 14, 2008
They redefined what could be considered high art and introduced conceptual and pop art to a mid-century world then preoccupied with abstract expressionism. "His most famous statement was that he worked 'in the gap between art and life,' " says John Elderfield, chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which has two Rauschenbergs. (USA Today -- Life)
US pop artist Rauschenberg dies May 14, 2008
American pop artist Robert Rauschenberg has died in Florida at the age of 82. He was known for his use of odd and everyday articles, which earned him a reputation as a pioneer in pop art. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Memories of Rauschenberg: 'A giant among artists' May 14, 2008
said his father's work -- considered a bridge between the Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s and 1960s Pop art -- tended to confound academics steeped in traditional art history. "Everybody was always trying to deconstruct his work the way they were trained to with medieval painting: 'If there's a dog here, it means this,' " he said. (Los Angeles Times)
US pop art giant dies, aged 82 May 14, 2008
US pop art giant dies aged 82 ... The US pop art pioneer Robert Rauschenberg has died at the age of 82, his gallery said today ... In the 1960s, he responded to the work of his pop art contemporaries - including Andy Warhol - by incorporating up to the minute photographed images in his works, including pictures of John F Kennedy. (Guardian Unlimited)
Getting personal: Products touting individuality appeal to the masses May 13, 2008
The company also creates lip and fingerprint portraits that resemble Andy Warhol pop art. You can even send a copy of your signature, and they'll add it to the piece. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Hubble guidance device can avoid Skylab encore May 13, 2008
Even though the simple piece of aluminum had boxes painted in black and white shapes, it wasn't a piece of 1960s pop art that Joel Burcham was holding at the Advanced Optical Systems Inc. lab recently. "It does sort of look like a crazy, conceptual art piece," Burcham, an AOS senior scientist, said with a laugh. (AL.com)
Subtle significance May 11, 2008
Such provocative art finds its historic precedent in the early 1900s, when Dadaism was instigated in Zurich as a movement within the artistic community, in protest to World War I. It went on to influence a number of avant garde movements including pop art, which clearly influences and informs Kanishka Raja s works. Formal frameworks. (Hindu)
'Racer' tests limits of digital overdrive May 9, 2008
It has a knowing foot in pop art as well - the movie could be a Roy Lichtenstein canvas using pixels instead of zipatone dots. It's also thunderingly, proudly empty in a way that prompts either total submission or thoughts of resistance. (Boston Globe)
First Look at 'Speed Racer' May 7, 2008
-evil race car story, it s all pop art colors and built-for-speed races where the cars and camera, like a churning carnival ride, go up, down, swing to the side, flip over, turn, twist and defy gravity. You might admire it as a Warholian blur of pop art, writes Ian Nathan of Empire Magazine, gawk and gasp at its Hot-Wheels-for-real dynamism, or get a headache. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Che anything May 5, 2008
The image really does seem to have a life of its own -- or really many, many lives: as a sign of political protest, an image in pop art, a fashion statement. Can you talk about the factors that led to its proliferation. (Salon)
Mentos campaign grabs top honours May 2, 2008
The gum campaign extended to street art installations and a "Make Art Pop" website, which invited visitors to create their own pop art. In addition to Best of Show honours, the Mentos creative won two golds, including top honours in the Integrated Campaign category. (Globe and Mail -- Business)
8 bronzes enhance S.F.'s civic beauty May 2, 2008
A few years later he and two friends formed a group that called itself Equipo Crnica, disbanded in 1981, whose works of veiled social criticism commentators liken to Pop art. In the mid-'70s, Valds began to receive wide recognition in Europe, with museum shows in France, Portugal, Belgium and Spain. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Glad to be grey Apr 23, 2008
Falling in the middle of this period, British pop art did enjoy a flurry of fame, but I have not included any work by artists such as Peter Blake, David Hockney or Richard Hamilton. This is partly due to a suspicion that the swinging 60s, in all its groovy glory, was really only enjoyed by a minority; and partly because I'm a bit tired of the hackneyed nostalgia for a psychedelic, World Cup-winning, Mini-driving, miniskirt-wearing, Beatles-loving supposed golden age. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Artists' eco message on new canvas: billboards Apr 23, 2008
"It was so big, I got goose bumps just looking at it," said Goya, 39, a Venice artist whose colorful pop art often includes the smile-inducing creatures Muchas and Poquitos. "As a full-time artist, I understand how rare an opportunity it is to work on this scale and have it be enjoyed by so many.". (San Francisco Chronicle)
The way it was Apr 16, 2008
Village Square Booksellers (32 The Square, 802-463-9404, ) is an independently owned shop with a small cafe, while Arch Bridge Bookshop (14 The Square, 802-463-2098, ) buys and sells used books, including New England history and "Vermontiana." Promising "pop art, fads, and fashion with style," Hula Cat (5 Westminster St., 802-376-4548) is basically a funky thrift shop that has one of the largest collections of Hawaiian shirts around. La Bella Stella (18 The Square, 802-463-2228) sells what it... (Boston Globe)
Beach fashions suited to you Apr 14, 2008
Color mixing is a big trend, with prints in black and white and seemingly endless color combinations inspired by Pucci, Missoni, Pop Art and Art Deco. Stripes, florals and plaids get a fresh twist with bold, inventive colors, sometimes getting added punch with flirty ruffles, sporty buckles, shiny appliques, ring-gathered fabric or sexy one-shoulder design. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Exhibit highlights victims of drug trade Apr 12, 2008
from the title of Richard Hamilton s iconic Pop Art collage, a pivotal piece created in 1956 that seems to question the unsparing assault of advertising and profit driven consumerism. Here Rojas is alluding to the international community s double standard with respect to illegal drugs. (Woodlands Villager, TX)
American Artist Alice Neel Apr 12, 2008
With the coming of Pop Art and a renewed interest in artistic realism in the late 1960s and 1970s, Neel s fame continued to grow. She also continued to paint her distinctive portraits, most notably at this time of artist Andy Warhol and feminist Kate Millett, the Millett portrait featured on the cover of Time magazine. (Suite101.com)
Ashlee Simpson And Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz Get Engagement Congrats From Family, Fans, Bandmates -- And An Ex! Apr 12, 2008
The reaction was similar on where the bassist celebrated his engagement by posting a piece of pop art featuring his dog Hemingway. (Uh, congrats. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Honoring the Big Leaguers II (A Visual Metaphor) - Enriquillo Amiama Apr 10, 2008
Inspiring a common visual experience of cohesion and synthesis of realism and abstraction, fauvism and symbolism, and even pop art, which can also be experienced as surrealism, his work can truly be placed in the category of postmodernism and considered as avant-garde in our current era. Interesting to note are his dedications to artists of all schools of thought, expressing his unlimited love for art, while other times his love for his own nation is subtly conveyed by titles named Dominica. (AbsoluteArts.com)
RHS senior receives grant to art institute Apr 8, 2008
Her work appears to be a mixture of styles, abstract, cubism, and pop art. Jones pieces sometimes require a second look, for details one might have missed on first glance. (Rolla Daily News, MO)
At Currier Museum, there's more to appreciate Apr 6, 2008
Marisol Escobar made her Pop Art piece "The Family" (1963), from found boxes and a baby carriage; Time Magazine featured it on the cover for a story on the crisis of the American family in 1970. James Rosenquist's gorgeous 1989 collaged print "House of Fire," sports giant lipsticks protruding from the right like a cannonade toward a central, fiery window. (Boston Globe)
Salon Des Refuses Apr 5, 2008
Other notable works include Jon Campbell's Self Portrait With Yeah Badge, which uses a bold pop art format but understated colours; Pam Tippett's subtle Copper Jug Self Portrait; and Joe Penn's small, tonalist self-portrait, Angry, Cranky Mean And Nasty - which is the way the artist says he feels when he can't get in a day's painting. Lucky for him he didn't win the Archibald or he'd never get any peace. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Gallery reaps high returns on lifelong habit Apr 4, 2008
"In those days, with the beginnings of pop art, works by people like Rauschenberg, [Roy] Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, were cheaper than their Australian equivalents, cheaper than a John Olsen or a Fred Williams," he said. Mr Kaldor, 71, has had a long relationship with contemporary art in Sydney. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Donation marks a collector's life Apr 4, 2008
Rauschenberg, who came to prominence in the 1950s as abstract expressionism gave ground to Pop Art, is now acknowledged as one of the titans of 20th century art. But Kaldor paid "a couple of hundred dollars" for the piece, which sowed the seed for a $35 million collection that he is giving to the Art Gallery of NSW.. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Benefactor makes record art donation Apr 3, 2008
JOHN Kaldor never intended to build a contemporary art collection when he first became hooked by Pop Art in the early 1960s. But nearly 50 years and hundreds of acquisitions later, the Australian art patron has donated his entire $35m collection to the Art Gallery of New South Wales the 00004000 single greatest gift of works to an Australian gallery. (Melbourne Herald Sun)
American Artist Charles Demuth Apr 1, 2008
Demuth s bold use of the number 5 itself amid a kaleidoscopic background has been described as a precursor to the Pop Art movement. Lancaster and Legacy. (Suite101.com)
Blind to change, even as it stares us in the face Apr 1, 2008
The phenomenon that Wolfe's Pop Art quiz exemplified is known as change blindness: the frequent inability of our visual system to detect alterations to something staring us straight in the face. The changes needn't be as modest as a switching of paint chips. (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
Andy Warhol is popping up all over the place Apr 1, 2008
"He's the king of pop, and by its very nature, pop art is popular art," says Brett Gorvy of postwar/contemporary art at Christie's, which last year auctioned Green Car Crash for $71. 5 million the highest ever paid for a Warhol work. (USA Today -- Life)
After 1,100 years, 'time has come' for Stanley Park tree Apr 1, 2008
But that's not the point, she said after the vote, calling the snag a piece of pop art that the West Coast cannot afford to lose. It's a little freaky and it's a little weird. (Globe and Mail -- National)
Gifts Free for Docs -- but Do You Pay? Mar 30, 2008
A peek into the office of Dr. Jeffrey Caren reveals he's not only a cardiologist, but also a collector of pop art. Over the years, the Los Angeles doctor has amassed more than 1,000 pens given to him by pharmaceutical sales representatives who come to push their products. (ABC News -- Business)
Buyers jump on Indonesia as next Asian art tiger Mar 28, 2008
What the market wants today, said Oei, is pop art with hyper-realistic techniques, paintings by people like Nyoman Masriadi, who he said is one of the most expensive of the young artists. Oei has one of Masriadi's paintings in his gallery, a hyper-realist Batman with a flowing cloak and meticulously painted clouds in a pristine sky, given a dash of spice with seemingly careless black scribbles. (International Herald Tribune)
London Theater: American inspirations with a British ring Mar 26, 2008
Using the various levels of Klara Zieglerova's set, pop art iconography helping to swiftly set the period, McAnuff keeps the four members of the group in a sort of perpetual rotation, the storytelling chores shared among them. Today in Culture. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Magda McHale, sociologist and futurist thinker; at 86 Mar 24, 2008
Along with her first husband - Frank Cordell, later a prominent British musician and composer - and the artist John McHale, who would become her second husband, Mrs. McHale helped convene the London-based group that started British Pop Art. Other members of the Independent Group included artists Richard Hamilton and Eduardo Paolozzi, architects Alison and Peter Smithson, and the critic Lawrence Alloway, who is often credited with inventing the term Pop Art. (Boston Globe)
Satisfying tidbits, about food and family Mar 23, 2008
Hill does surprise with "Pop Art," a surreal fantasy in which a boy makes friends with the school outcast, an inflatable boy. One moves past the improbability of the tale to the heartbreak at its core. (Boston Globe)
The day the Prince went pop Mar 15, 2008
In a bizarre artistic coupling, a new exhibition in Sydney has hung paintings by His Royal Highness next to iconic prints by the king of pop art, Andy Warhol. While Prince Charles's talents for polo, organic gardening and seductive metaphors are well known, his interest in visual art may be news to Australians. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Viral doom made infectiously fun Mar 15, 2008
He brings schlock as close to pop art as it can get. In his last movie, "The Descent," Marshall pitted a group of tough, thrill-seeking women against albino vampires. (Boston Globe)
Rooms inspired by famous Pittsburghers Mar 8, 2008
You might expect Andy Warhol to have filled his home with the funky images that catapulted him to fame in the 1960s and led to him being crowned the Prince of Pop Art. You know -- those giant Campbell's soup cans or equally iconic silk screens of such celebrities as Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
A collector's item: art dealer's 125m gift to the nation is ... Feb 29, 2008
Three rooms will be dedicated to Arbus's 69 photographs; six to Warhol's evolving pop art; five rooms filled with 20 sculptures and 110 drawings by Beuys; two dedicated rooms to nine works by Gilbert e; and a Damien Hirst space that will include one of his early pickled installations, Away from the Flock, from 1995, as well as an early "spot" painting and a large new work from his "butterfly" series. Works by Jeff Koons, Bill Viola, Bruce Nauman, Georg Baselitz and Richard Hamilton will also... (Independent)
EATEL's 'Reach a Kid, Teach a Kid' awards $5,000 in grants to Ascension Parish teachers Feb 21, 2008
Darryl Babin, St. Amant High, 9th-10th grades; Pop Art Portraits. Melissa Bankhead, LeBlanc Special Services, K-12th grades: I Can Read, Too. (Gonzales Ascension Citizen, LA)
West Coast art gives Kidder Smith Gallery a bold look Feb 20, 2008
Like the work of many Kidder Smith artists, Miller's paintings blend technical sophistication with Pop Art accessibility. That first Miller show at Kidder Smith sold out. (Boston Globe)
24 hours in Amsterdam's historic center Feb 19, 2008
For pop art in myriad forms, step into Mendo (Berenstraat 11; 31-20-612-1216; www. mendo. (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
Renzo Piano's LA museum opens to public Feb 18, 2008
Important pieces by Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein shift the weight back toward pop art and its progeny, which rule again on the floor below, with ensembles of work by Damien Hirst, Cindy Sherman and Jean-Michel Basquiat. The visitor leaves BCAM with a question not intended by the museum and its benefactors: Who could warm to this particular constellation of artworks as anything but a triumph of conspicuous consumption or speculative investment. (San Francisco Chronicle)
At the Galleries Feb 18, 2008
Mendel Art Gallery: Exhibits include MOTHER (Make Overs to Heal Economic Rifts) by Sarah Beck, a conceptual work about consumption, youth and economic exchange; Dharma Bum, work by Montreal artist Sylvain Bouthillette that combines punk rock and Buddhism; Sight Unseen, selections from the gallery's permanent collection; Lingua Franca, work from the permanent collection that highlight the pop art aesthetic; and Artists by Artists featuring Alison Nolen and Alexa Hainsworth. Something on Sundays... (StarPhoenix)
Ngasri community: Creating art amid urban life Feb 16, 2008
But there are moments when they return to their private space and produce art that does not relate to their jobs," said art critic Wicaksono Adi. He said as visual art practitioners, they were actually working with impersonal experiences, fulfilling the requirements to create visual products that were not for themselves but for somebody else. "Thus, the visual arts they create are not fully their personal expression, instead they are products of an agreement with other parties," he said. Those... (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
