Retrospectives on Yayoi Kusama often point to mental illness as the source of her inspiration. But before she made it big, she was a young girl inspired by traveling the world for the first time.
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The sculpture was an early pioneer of pop art and his approach to collage across mediums was revolutionary,
Few know Warhol started out designing quirky printed fabrics, but they reveal the origins of his iconic style.
The decision may make it hard to report the news, make documentary films, write biographies or even teach a class.
A new show at the Gold Coast’s HOTA attests to the ongoing influence of pop art today.
How the artist found endless variety in the daily view from his bed, cycling through the seasons with kaleidoscopes of light, colour, texture, form and space.
Not the bright and optimistic period that pop art at first glance would suggest, a lot of Warhol’s work is about death and destruction.
The allusive artist continues to fascinate as a series of new productions try to understand the man behind the work.
What does Hockey’s auction record for a living artist mean beyond the art market?
Fifty years after its release, the Beatles’ White Album continues to inspire and provoke creativity.
In 1997 Pippilotti Rist walked down a street of cars and smashed their windows in a vivaciously feminist call to arms. You might recognise the homage to Risk’s work in Beyoncé’s Lemonade.
The New York Pop artist who turned dots into icons died 20 years ago.
The Andy Warhol exhibition embodies so many of the contradictions, complications and conflicts in both art and society in contemporary South Africa.
Jim Dine and other pop artists like Andy Warhol took everyday things and transformed them into magical objects. In his prints a robe could become a self-portrait, a president, or a hero.
Warhol has become one of the most well known artists in the world, but his work still has secrets to reveal.
From Beyoncé and Lady Gaga to Kanye and even Rihanna, pop royalty is crazy for high art. Is this a phenomenon worth celebrating or are pop stars mining the art world to gain credibility?
Why must women’s art be seen as autobiographical when we readily accept the idea of male auteurs spinning fictionalised yarns? In her much analysed video and album Lemonade, Beyoncé may be playing make believe.
The NGV’s summer exhibition is curated to create a dialogue between Ai Weiwei and Andy Warhol, and this conversation operates on multiple levels on a variety of themes, and across time and space.
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