Pop art developed in the turbulent cultural milieu of the early 1960s as a response to the brooding intellectual and emotional aspects of abstract expressionism. Originally a British movement of the mid-1950s, in American hands pop art became...

Pop art is a visual art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in parallel in the late 1950s in the United States. The coinage of the term Pop Art is often credited to British art critic/curator, Lawrence Alloway in an essay titled The...

Despite the fast company, Murphy Lee (born Tohri Harper), 19, remains unfazed and unspoiled. "I'll hear my song on the radio," he says, "and I'll think, My voice ain't supposed to be on that song. It's amazing like a motherfucker!" But for all his aw-shucks...

Roy Lichtenstein believed his creative vision heralded a new approach to art. Others, however, were pretty sure he was crazy. Critics ridiculed him. Art aficionados sniffed at his work.And in 1964, Life magazine bluntly asked in a headline, "Is He the Worst Artist in America?"...

Before he began transforming mundane cans of Campbell's soup into icons of Pop art and hanging around with the likes of Lou Reed, Edie Sedgwick and anyone else seeking 15 minutes of fame, Andy Warhol had a thing for shoes.Heels, flats, boots. Whatever. And like...

In a mingling of pop art, advertising and the real thing, about 30 Andy Warhol renderings of Coca-Cola's curvy trademark bottle will go on display at a new museum near headquarters for the world's largest beverage maker.Most of the paintings, pencil sketches and screenprints _...