Marisol: The Revaluation of A Pop Art Icon
Marisol Escobar, known simply as Marisol, was a Venezuelan-American artist born in France in 1930 who became one of her… Read More
24 July 2024
Pop Art
Pop Art From The Guggenheim Collection Reanimated – Bilbao
In celebration of Pop Art’s enduring legacy, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao unveils “Signs and Objects: Pop Art from the Guggenheim Collection
15 February 2024
Duggie Fields British Artist And Fashion Icon Dies Age 75
Duggie Fields, who died yesterday, was one of the new figurative painters that defined Britain in the 1970s and 80s. His work was internationally influential, especially his graphic sensibility.
8 March 2021
Robert Indiana First Generation American Pop Artist Dies Aged 89
The American Pop Artist Robert Indiana has died at his home in Vinalhaven, Maine he was 89.
22 May 2018
Pop Art from North Africa Explored In New Arab British Centre Exhibition
Pop Art from North Africa will put together for the first time and under the P21 Gallery roof, the artworks of fifteen creative individuals from North Africa who are all inspired by the Pop Art movement.
6 September 2017
Wayne Thiebaud Beneath The Icing On The Cake – Edward Lucie-Smith
The now very senior Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920) has often found himself classified as a Pop artist, largely because a large part of his subject matter – still lifes of commonplace objects (in his case often items of mass-produced food) – overlaps with the kind of things that members of the American Pop movement chose to depict.
26 May 2017
Wayne Thiebaud Proto-Pop Survey Exhibition Opens At White Cube London
The American artist Wayne Thiebaud has always had the capacity to create serial images that make us think of the likeness between art and life.
24 May 2017
James Rosenquist First Wave US Pop Artist Dies Aged 83
James Rosenquist, a first wave pioneer of Pop Art has died in New York. He was 83. He began his career as a sign-painter
2 April 2017
Jim Dine – Heart Surgery And Singing Poets A Beautiful Cacophony
Jim Dine, the American pop artist (born 1935) has unveiled a new exhibition of his latest works on paper at Alan Cristea in London.
9 February 2017
Gerald Laing Honoured With First Posthumous Retrospective At Fine Arts Society
The first posthumous exhibition of the leading British Pop artist and sculptor Gerald Laing (1936 – 2011) has opened at The Fine… Read More
28 September 2016
Marisol Key New York Pop Artist Dies In Obscurity Aged 85
Marisol, the Venezuelan-American artist who created assemblages combining folk and Pop Art has died in Manhattan. She was 85.
3 May 2016
Ed Ruscha: American Pop Artist Donates Print Collection To Tate
The American Pop Artist artist Ed Ruscha has donated to the national collection one impression of all future prints he creates… Read More
14 December 2015
Tate Modern And The World Goes Pop For 2015
Tate Modern will present ‘The World Goes Pop’, a ground-breaking exhibition revealing how artists around the world engaged with the… Read More
5 January 2015
Allen Jones – Pop Artist Returns From PC Induced Isolation
Allen Jones has been vilified by a generation. Coming across as a kind Duchampian fetishist with misogynistic tendencies – Jones… Read More
30 October 2014
Sigmar Polke – Alchemy, Anarchy, And The Drug-Fuelled Journey
Tate Modern presents Alibis: Sigmar Polke 1963-2010; this is the first exhibition to fully encompass the full range of materials… Read More
9 October 2014
Mimmo Rotella Pioneer of European Pop Art: Survey Opens In Milan
A pioneer of European Pop art, Mimmo Rotella’s 150 work survey focuses on his early pieces from 1953 – 1964…. Read More
21 July 2014
Pop Artist Jim Dine Gifts Graphic Works To British Museum
The 1960s Pop artist Jim Dine, best known for his colourful images of hearts and bathrobes has promised to gift… Read More
30 October 2013
Pop Art From Eric & Jean Cass Exhibited at Contemporary Art Society
A recently donated collection of over 300 important modern and contemporary artworks given by the collectors Eric and Jean Cass… Read More
27 September 2013
Pop Artist Peter Blake 80th Birthday Celebrations Announced
London Original Print Fair to host 80th birthday party for iconic artist The 27th London Original Print Fair will open… Read More
11 April 2012
Velvet Underground Sue Andy Warhol For Banana
Vintage rock band The Velvet Underground have initiated legal action against the Andy Warhol Foundation over the use of their… Read More
20 January 2012
New Richard Hamilton Display For NPG Opens
Ten portraits of the artist Richard Hamilton, one of the founders of Pop Art in Britain, went on display Monday… Read More
21 December 2011
Pop Artist Warhol Rolls Royce Goes Under The Hammer
The aspirational brown motor car is offered by Bonhams Auctioneers “The legendary Pop Artist Andy Warhol’s car is to join… Read More
17 October 2011
Amy Winehouse Gerald Laing’s Pop Art Tribute
New exhibition explores Winehouse through the eyes of the media Gerald Laing’s current exhibition of paintings and drawings executed in… Read More
11 October 2011
Richard Hamilton Godfather Of Pop Art Dies In London Aged 89
Richard Hamilton the Godfather of ‘Pop Art’ has died at age 89. He was considered to be one of the most influential figures in the art world in the last century.
13 September 2011
Brooke Shields Nude Photographer Nemesis Garry Gross Dies
Should we mourn the passing of Garry Gross? For those who think the name vaguely rings a bell, he was the exploitive creator of the original image of a ten-year-old Brooke Shields
8 December 2010
Is A Warhol ‘Soup Can’ Worth 30-50 Million Dollars?
Bid Here…. In the 48 years since it was executed Big Campbell’s Soup Can with Can Opener (Vegetable) has only… Read More
27 October 2010