Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987), magnified popular American culture in his art, and in so doing he himself became a paradigm of popular culture. “His pop sensibility embraced an anything-can-be-art approach, appropriating images, ideas and even innovation itself,” according to curatorial signage at Andy Warhol Portfolios: A Life in Pop. This exhibition, on through September 8th, […]
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American Dreams: Classic Cars and Postwar Paintings
Exhibition highlights the coincidental surge of Abstract Expressionism, Pop art and Op art, and the mass production of automobiles during America’s Golden Age — the 1950s & ’60s — a time of increasing wealth and consumerism. […]