pop art
Modern Masters: Warhol, BBC OneMonday, 03 May 2010
I wondered how long it would be before Andy Warhol’s "15 minute" quote came up. From the whizzy, flash-bang opening credits I knew it wouldn’t be long. I was right: but less than seven minutes? Less than five? I didn’t time it, since I was still... Read more... |
Richard Hamilton: Modern Moral Matters, Serpentine GalleryThursday, 18 March 2010
Richard Hamilton, the true father of Pop art and spiritual descendant of Duchamp, is not a particularly prolific artist. Rather, he sticks to an idea and works on it over several editions and in different media, so that we get a large body of work... Read more... |
Vijay Iyer and Rudresh Mahanthappa, VortexFriday, 05 March 2010
I was promised a night of free jazz. This was more a threat than a promise, having spent some of the worst nights of my life listening to the stuff - the strange thing about this most liberating sounding form is how everyone sounds more or less the... Read more... |
Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting, Hayward GalleryFriday, 06 November 2009
West Coast pop art always was a poor relation to the world-beating New York original. Beside the Big Apple titans – Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Claes Oldenburg – LA painters such as Ed Ruscha, Robert Irwin and John Altoon remained... Read more... |
Pop Life: Art in a Material World, Tate ModernSaturday, 03 October 2009
That artists didn't just respond to the rapacious commercialism of the late 20th century, but actively contributed to it is hardly news. That the marketing of art can be part of the art itself is ... Read more... |
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