On a rainy day in New York, we visited iconic artist Ultra Violet (aka Isabelle Collin Dufresne) in her studio. Quickly integrated into pop and surrealist artists’ social scene upon her immigration into the US…
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It’s Nice That + NTS Radio’s Black Impulse Playlist Our creativity-championing friends over at It’s Nice That have let the folks from Black Impulse on NTS Radio hijack their weekly mixtape—resulting in two hours of music,…
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Los Angeles-based artist and former South Park animator Eric Yahnker is known for his highly skilled, large-scale drawings that use humor as a platform for his social and political views….
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Though the majority of our game-playing time these days is spent staring solitarily at our smartphones moving pixelated candy, nothing quite beats a good old-fashioned board game. While a game like Monopoly is a classic, the newly unveiled );…
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While you can score a Campbell’s soup reproduction print from any number of places, opportunities to pick up an authentic Andy Warhol are few and far between for casual art collectors. Knowing this, design megastore …
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As the recently appointed director of NYC’s Japan Society Gallery, Miwako Tezuka makes a resounding statement about the modern relevance of traditional Edo-era art. While introducing “Edo Pop: The Graphic Impact of Japanese Prints,” Dr. Tezuka hones in on “a contemporary sensibility,” the notion that artists across generations can…
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Anyone concerned that our increasingly integrated, global world will lead to a homogenized population or uniform culture need to look no further than the artwork of Tomokazu Matsuyama to see how uniquely varied it can be. The Japanese pro snowboarder-turned graphic designer-turned fine artist uses an optimistically hued palette…
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A rare book of the pioneering pop artist’s legendary photo strips
When Harper’s Bazaar commissioned Andy Warhol to do a layout for a feature on the arts in 1963, the artist turned to photobooths. The project launched a three-year obsession with the machines, resulting in images of himself, people he knew and famous faces of the era, as well as one of Warhol’s first commissioned portraits. Still the most cohesive reference on this period, “Andy Warhol Photobooth Pictures” was published in 1989 by the Robert Miller Gallery of New York to accompany an exhibition of the photo strips.
We recently rediscovered the rare book, a tall octavo that’s the perfect format for showing the long photographic images—various known members of The Factory, as well as many unidentified faces—against clean white backgrounds. The gallery-like design puts the focus on the subjects. Legends like Edie Sedgewick positioned smack in the middle of the page highlight Warhol’s own fascination with these personalities, as well as the Muybridge-like effect of his medium. Rounding out the iconic images with memories of Warhol, his reign as pop art’s king and personal experiences, American artist Gary Indiana leads an oral history through conversation with Tina Lyons and David Rimanelli.
For fans of Warhol, photography and pop art, this engrossing first edition sells from Amazon as well as Peter Harrington.
In a well-timed moment of cross-cultural exchange, the Corey Helford Gallery partnered with the Bristol City Museum and Gallery to put on a mega American show at the latter’s space, featuring some of today’s heaviest hitting street, pop and fine artists, including several never-before-seen works. Aptly called “Art From the New World,” the exhibit (opening this Saturday, 15 May 2010) includes work from Ron English (pictured), Gary Baseman, Mark Ryden and Camille Rose Garcia, among others. Check out the slideshow below for more images.
“Like the Arts Decoratif of Paris in 1925 or the bright, poppy England of the 1960s, America is gushing forth a new wave of taste and style born of Pop Iconic culture, expanding American diversity, resistance to the mainstream art world and a need to communicate to an art audience looking for relevance in America’s Age of Uncertainty,” said Corey Helford’s owner and curator, Jan Corey Helford, in a statement.
Buff Monster, in addition to painting murals, built a 15-foot-tall ice cream cone balloon sculpture. Bug-eyed characters from Baseman’s works will attend the opening (pictured above) and mingle with patrons.
Museumgoers can also expect to see Mike Stilkey’s painting done on the spines of 2,000 stacked books and Todd Schorr’s “An Ape Allegory,” a surreal artwork full of creative interpretations (pictured top right). AJ Foski (pictured above), Shag and Kent Williams also make up the lineup of works will be spread throughout the museum.
The show runs through August 22.
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