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Wayne Thiebaud, Whose Paintings Were (Almost) Good Enough to Eat, Dies at 101

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia December 27, 2021December 27, 2021

He mastered the textures of frosting, meringue, and donut glaze, but was also known for his dizzying cityscapes and Pop-like humor.

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How Pop Became Political for Artists Across the Americas

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford December 6, 2021December 6, 2021

From North to South America, artists used the bold colors, figuration, and appropriated imagery of Pop Art, but with a biting political message.

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The Latin American History of Pop Art

Avatar photo by Brenna M. Casey April 12, 2019April 11, 2019

Featuring works from artists in Latin America and its diasporas, Pop América intervenes in long-held conceptions of Pop Art’s geographic consolidations in the US and UK.

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Pop Goes the Ugly American Stereotypes

by Joseph Nechvatal January 12, 2018January 16, 2018

An exhibition at Musée Maillol demonstrates that Pop Art did not then, and does not now, matter — because it has never been a site of cultural resistance, but rather a scene of authoritarianism rooted in an affirmation of top-down corporate affluence.

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How Art Has Framed Our Celebrity Worship

by Sarah Rose Sharp November 13, 2017November 13, 2017

Pop Stars! Popular Culture and Contemporary Art explores the imagery of celebrity culture and likens it to a religious experience.

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Yo, Make Deborah Kass’s Public Sculpture in Brooklyn Permanent!

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton February 25, 2016February 29, 2016

When I first saw it in November I was immediately inclined to bemoan the fact that Deborah Kass’s canary yellow public sculpture “OY/YO,” installed on the Brooklyn waterfront in Dumbo, will not be there permanently.

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Reckoning with Pop Art’s Irrepressible Popularity

Avatar photo by Debra Brehmer February 22, 2016February 22, 2016

CHICAGO — Three major exhibitions devoted to Pop art that opened last year broadened the purview of this movement as a primarily Western (American) phenomenon by unearthing lesser-known artists to provide a global view of art in the 1960s and ‘70s.

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Tate Modern’s Absorbing but Haphazard Look at Global Pop Art

Avatar photo by Olivia McEwan December 10, 2015December 24, 2015

LONDON — The World Goes Pop is an exhilarating collection filled with fizzing energy, so its curatorial messiness can be forgiven.

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Corita Kent’s Political and Holy Language in the Context of Pop

by Dominic DeLuque November 18, 2015November 22, 2015

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Among Pop art’s notable motifs are capitalism, consumerism, and now Catholicism.

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Schizophrenic Compositions of Collapsing and Cascading Notes

by Claire Voon October 28, 2015October 28, 2015

Continuously creating since childhood, when he first cultivated a habit of collaging, British artist Eduardo Paolozzi boasts an oeuvre that is both prodigious and varied.

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When the Whole World Spoke Pop

by Mason Riddle August 24, 2015August 25, 2015

MINNEAPOLIS — We do not know what we do not know. That is precisely what the Walker Art Center’s exhibition International Pop makes clear — how much, heretofore, we did not know about the scope and practice of Pop art.

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Inside Andy Warhol’s Book Factory

by Laura C. Mallonee April 1, 2015October 15, 2022

It’s strange to picture Andy Warhol curled up with a novel, but the eccentric pop artist “lived and breathed” books, according to Warhol by the Book, the first US museum exhibition to explore the literary side of his practice.

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