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    Artist Farber's career a celebration of details  Aug 25, 2008
    His career spanned styles and epochs in recent art: Abstract expressionism, pop art, minimalism, conceptual art all came and went in his lifetime. He experimented with his own versions of expressionism and made subtly ravishing works in the minimalist vein that foreshadowed his later brilliance with color in his figurative paintings. (San Diego Union-Tribune)

    Andy Warhol a Founder of Pop Art  Aug 20, 2008
    It led to a new direction and the founders of pop art ... In definition pop art is a style exposing every day images as a part of consumer culture. (Suite101.com)

    Jackson, Madonna hit the big 5-0  Aug 18, 2008
    Long before the current tabloid boom, Madonna and Jackson were living their videogenic lives as pop art, expertly promoting their music remember their music. by finding titillating new ways to stir up water-cooler chitchat. (Toronto Star)

    Larry Rivers Floats Above Rest  Aug 15, 2008
    "Silk-screen, collage, deconstruction, the link between abstract expressionism and pop art - all the terms we're familiar with, Larry put forth, and he really didn't get credit for it," she says. "I'm hoping people take a second look.". (New York Post -- Entertainment)

    Elvis Presley Memorabilia And Colle...  Aug 12, 2008
    Elvis wardrobes attracted the strongest prices among the celebrity memorabilia offered in the Rock And Roll Pop Art Auction that ended on August 7. Online auction site gottahaverockandroll. (Suite101.com)

    Fashion forward for fall: Earthy, muted tones make an entrance  Aug 8, 2008
    Betsey Johnson's fall clothing line reflects an '80s influence with its graphic pop art and punk prints featuring guns and skulls. Tracy Reese also incorporates '80s elements, such as sequins, into her fall line. (The Clarion-Ledger)

    Perez Celis, 69; Argentine artist known for abstracts and large murals  Aug 7, 2008
    During the rise of pop art in the early 1960s - exemplified by Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg - Mr. Celis immersed himself in the indigenous art tradition of Argentina and Peru. In later years, he turned to more figurative designs from his studio in Miami. (Boston Globe)

    Cow's Blood, Bible & Madonna: The New Controversial Pop Art  Aug 7, 2008
    Cow's Blood, Bible & Madonna: The New Controversial Pop Art: Financial News - Yahoo ... Cow's Blood, Bible & Madonna: The New Controversial Pop ArtThursday August 7, 3:00 am ET ... Sexual politics, religion and a sense of rebelliousness are portrayed through a portrait series of paintings, photographs, installations and multimedia described as 'The Post Pop Art' by the artist group 'The NuBrits. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    * [ART JOURNAL] Pop Art gets it on with Mao Zedong  Aug 6, 2008
    ART JOURNAL] Pop Art gets it on with Mao Zedong. Mao's star power has multiplied in the Pop Art of China ... I tried to explain that, with my interests in popular culture, popular religion, power politics and the mechanics of propaganda, not to mention Pop Art and Chinese history past and present, the mausoleum was a must-see. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)

    Andy Warhol at 80. Imagine that.  Aug 3, 2008
    The Prince of Pop Art, who died in 1987 at the age of 58, is a global icon that has come to signify that which is eternally hip and edgy and young. The art market now values a Warhol for three times as much as a Rembrandt. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)

    Memorabilia from 'Spider-Man,' 'Star Wars' up for auction  Aug 1, 2008
    Pop culture has become the thing to collect, whether it's contemporary art or pop art, continues Maddalena, who has been in the business of buying and selling artifacts for 22 years. And now that art has started to transfer over to film and television. (San Diego Union-Tribune)

    Scoop: Multi-tasking mom J. Lo trains for triathalon  Jul 24, 2008
    Online Rock & Roll Pop Art Auction started on July 21, auctioning off personal items of various celebrities from Britney Spears' Mickey Mouse Club T-shirt signed by Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera and Keri Russell to Elvis Peacock jumpsuit from 1974. The online auction ends July 30. (MSNBC -- Gossip)

    * [ART JOURNAL] An evolving tradition  Jul 23, 2008
    Kwon Ki-soos vibrant canvases infuse traditional Korean motifs with an almost childlike Pop Art sensibility. By Noah Buchan STAFF REPORTER Wednesday, Jul 23, 2008, Page 15. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)

    * Art that 'resin'-ates with the masses  Jul 23, 2008
    Warhol took Campbell Soup, Marilyn Monroe and Mao Zedong (AF) and turned them into Pop Art. It should also go the other way around, says Pao. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)

    High praise for the icons of lowbrow art  Jul 21, 2008
    LAGUNA BEACH Highbrow, middlebrow and lowbrow you would think these terms would have become obsolete by now, nearly a half century after the eruption of Pop Art. After all, didn't Warhol and Lichtenstein embrace popular imagery, from industrial package design to comics. (San Diego Union-Tribune)

    BenQ brings S41 JoyBook in India  Jul 16, 2008
    It has been designed by using BenQs exclusive Laminated Color Metal and POP art technologies; the sleek silver strip. It also rests on a fine aluminum hairline finish and offers LEDs (Light Emitting Diode) to display the Joybook s status. (TechGadgets.in)

    Pop Art Wows Crowd at The Houston Galleria  Jul 15, 2008
    - National Red Bull Art of Can Exhibit Opens for All to Celebrate. HOUSTON, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The Red Bull Art of Can 2008 national collection was unveiled to more than 1,000 anticipating guests at the Houston Galleria last night, where attendees celebrated the work of emerging artists and seasoned professionals alike. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    New art museum in the Bowery attracts galleries - and gentrifiers  Jul 13, 2008
    Lichtenstein, the late Pop Art painter, moved in 1965 to a former Bowery warehouse and bank that became his studio for several years. Warehouses in SoHo back then offered cheap rent much like tenements on the Lower East Side do now. (Boston Globe)

    Pregnant Aguilera went up two shoe sizes  Jul 13, 2008
    She also said Andy Warhols pop art will be referenced in the work. Another piece of her new albums mix. (MSNBC -- News)

    A chilling lesson in art  Jul 13, 2008
    all the lines and colours are blurred on the 1979 edition of the BMW Art Car while Lichtenstein, the father of American Pop Art, said his 1977 version used the painted lines as a road. the design also shows the scenery, including the sky and sun, as it passes by. (The Star Online, Malaysia)

    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)

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