Pop Art

Insane 'Pencilism' Paintings

Posted 05.25.2012

We have seen artists work with pencils before, but never like this. Born in Colombia, Frederico Uribe makes pop art masterpieces out of unexpected...

The Other King Of Pop

Posted 05.22.2012

The largest exhibition of Roy Lichtenstein's work to date will be traveling to a number of museums in the U.S. and Europe this summer. First stop: the...

Mad Men: Rejecting Advertising, Or, Don Draper Meets Acid Rock, Pop Buddhism, and an Independent Wife

William Bradley | Posted 05.08.2012

William Bradley

Don't look now, but something important just happened on Mad Men. A major character, someone with real talent in the field, just rejected advertising. Someone who happens to be ad guru Don Draper's bright and shiny new wife.

Artist Behind 'LOVE' Sculptures Sued

AP | Posted 05.07.2012

ROCKLAND, Maine — An art buyer from Monaco has filed a lawsuit against Pop artist Robert Indiana, the sculptor known for his "LOVE" works. Joao...

Happy Birthday Keith Haring!

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.11.2012

Today is the birthday of Pop-street art darling Keith Haring. The artist, who mastered the rare combination of super happy and super cool, would turn ...

Andy Warhol Takes Pictures Of The Cool Crowd

Posted 04.04.2012

Andy Warhol was a social animal. Ravenous to get in with the cool crowd, Warhol's life's work surrounded around social interaction. (Although his cool...

Buyer Finds Warhol Sketch At A Garage Sale

Posted 04.03.2012

While the majority of garage sale treasures include old family photos, broken VCR's and stained baby clothes, don't give up hope! If you keep scouring...

A Sporting Good Time With Dario Escobar

Posted 03.24.2012

Usually the arts and the world of sports don't share too much in common. The archetype of the jock and the artistic outcast has been perpetuated enoug...

Ed Ruscha + Jack Kerouac = Poetic Wandering

Posted 03.22.2012

Ed Ruscha's paintings look simple, which is what makes their complexity so confounding. Like a short poem, you can enjoy a Ruscha work in a matter of ...

Jim Dine's Pop Art Pinocchio

Posted 03.22.2012

Pinocchio tells the story of a wooden puppet who turns into a living boy. Jim Dine, an influential pop artist who has been actively working for over 5...

Warhol Could Fetch $50 M In NYC

AP | Posted 03.16.2012

NEW YORK -- An Andy Warhol portrait of Elvis Presley depicted as a cowboy is being auctioned in New York City and is expected to sell for between $30 ...

Ron English: Your Favorite POPaganda Prankster

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.11.2012

Ron English is an outlaw of sorts, known for converting cultural icons into agitprop creations that make us pause and reconsider the objects, cultural...

Experience "L.A. Style"

Posted 03.07.2012

Fashion photographer Herb Ritts captured so much of the glitz and glamour that epitomizes that L.A. image-centric air. The skin, the sun, the models, ...

Go Wild In The Urban Jungle

Posted 02.22.2012

Jayson Keeling's photographs are violent and sexy, glam and grotesque, they invoke stereotypes only to have them come crashing down. His work pulls fr...

Art as Vocation: A Conversation With Camille Saint-Jacques

David Galenson | Posted 04.15.2012

David Galenson

On a cold, sunny day in Paris, the Sunday before Christmas, I met Camille Saint-Jacques for lunch at a beautiful traditional bistro near the Drouot auction house. He agreed to talk about what it had been like to be a young artist in Paris.

North Korean Propagandist To Show New Satirical Artworks

Posted 02.10.2012

Like many North Koreans, Song Byeok was brainwashed into believing Kim Jong Il loved and cared about his country. At 24, he was hired to be a propagan...

Hahn-Bin: Juilliard Meets Studio 54

Posted 02.07.2012

Hahn-Bin is an exquisite melting pot of talent and style, of the classical and the strange. A prodigy violinist Pop Art icon, he is what happens when ...

Yayoi Kusama: A Life Of Obsession

Posted 03.26.2012

Yayoi Kusama forever changed the polka dot. What was before a cute if not ordinary pattern was, to her, a hallucination, an absolute fixation on a rep...

Doug Wheeler Distills Infinity

Gabrielle Selz | Posted 03.25.2012

Gabrielle Selz

In Wheeler's art case it is purely the medium of light that we explore, touch, see, and sense. His simplified use of material heightens and distills the experience. Being inside his space is at once ethereal and dense.

PHOTOS: Yoshitomo Nara's Amazing Artwork

Posted 01.12.2012

At first glance, it's kitschy. Cherubic and wide-eyed figures in baby blue dresses stare sweetly at the viewer. But when you scope out the details of ...

Battle Of The Banana: Warhol Vs. Velvet Undergound

Posted 01.11.2012

Andy Warhol's career was based on repurposing well-known celebrity images and brands, but now the Warhol Foundation has found itself in a heated battl...

Mr. Brainwash Goes Big (PHOTOS)

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 02.22.2012

John Wellington Ennis

When you're Thierry Guetta, your biggest challenge may be how to top yourself. After a debut art show that drew thousands in 2008, there may be little else but to live the life of an artist whose work is in demand.

WATCH: Talented Monkey Is Next Big Thing In Abstract Art

Posted 12.12.2011

Many great artist personas get 'discovered' from their eccentric appearances before they even make any great art. Such was the case with Pockets Warho...

Political Art Timeline, 1945-1966: Postwar Art of the Left

G. Roger Denson | Posted 02.02.2012

G. Roger Denson

2011-12-03-Screenshot20111203at10.01.48AM.pngMost demarcations of historical epochs are necessarily vague. Not this one.

PHOTOS: This Is Not René Magritte's Birthday

Posted 11.21.2011

René Magritte was born in Belgium 113 years ago today. Since then, he has pleased our eyes and tickled our minds with his poetic subversions of reali...