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...

INTRODUCTION JAMES MEYER We do not often associate Clement Greenberg with Pop. The great champion of Abstract Expressionism never published an essay on the subject, and occasional remarks in interviews and texts in John O'Brian's indispensable anthology of the critic's writings suggest a...

Peter Blake's latest work comes with added sparkle, says Arifa Akbar To devotees of his work on The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's album cover, his latest psychedelic collage follows in the same tradition. For cynics, however, Sir Peter Blake's latest artwork is a cold...

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?"...