Articles tagged "andy warhol"

Books Review

The Velvet Underground: An Illustrated History of a Walk on the Wild Side by Jim DeRogatis

by Craig Carson

[19.Oct.09] :. Great visuals aside, this collection is hit-and-miss. Like any textual description of music that falls short of actually hearing it, the words can't keep up with the images.

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Books Review

Ferus by Roberta Bernstein & Kirk Varnedoe

by David Banash

[17.Aug.09] :. Instead of the kind of comprehensive curatorial essay contextualizing and explaining the work it reproduces, this assumes a list of unadorned, unexplained names tells a story.

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Column: The Screener

Keith Haring: Warhol, Jr.

by Chris Barsanti

[7.Nov.08] :. The Universe of Keith Haring digs under the artist's pop veneer and goes all the way to the surface, finding some kind of meaning in simplicity.

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Books Review

The Artist’s Joke by Jennifer Higgie

by Megan Milks

[16.Jan.08] :. What is surprising is that so little of 20th-century art criticism has focused on humor in art.

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Music Feature

All Tomorrow’s Parties: The Warhol Years 1965–1967, Part Two

by Peter Hogan

[14.Aug.07] :. In the second of two exclusive PopMatters book excerpts from The Rough Guide to the Velvet Underground, Hogan offers a who's who of Andy Warhol's Factory people.

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Music Feature

All Tomorrow’s Parties: The Warhol Years 1965–1967, Part One

by Peter Hogan

[13.Aug.07] :. In the first of two exclusive PopMatters book excerpts from The Rough Guide to the Velvet Underground, Hogan details the energizing effect that meeting Andy Warhol had on the Velvet Underground's career. Stay tuned for part two tomorrow.

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YSL? Why not?

by Raphaël Costambeys-Kempczynski

[15.Jun.07] :. For Yves Saint-Laurent, clothes are a way of life and not a way of dressing; you may be wearing the most anodyne of dresses, but if you walk with one hand in your pocket then you create a mind-set.