There have been many pretenders to the Pop art crown worn by Andy Warhol. Forget Damien Hirst or Jeff Koons. An unlikely contender has stepped forward to claim the throne. It is Tim Burton, the film director and animator whose darkly surreal vision has created modern fairy tales such as Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Beetlejuice.
Price: $9.00 Category: Current Year, Next Year Andy Warhol Taming of the Shoe Wall Calendar: Andy Warhol®, Pop icon, artist and filmmaker, is considered by many to be the most influential American artist of the second half of the 20th century. Early in his career, he established a unique styl...
A new decade is a time in which to declare "everything you know is wrong". A fresh decade is a time to jettison secure old knowledge and grope around for new. Since a new decade is just around the corner, let's start groping now. Forget the places you've been going on holiday, and go on holiday instead to Beirut . Do not expect to learn about the world through journalists. Any Obama backlash...
With opera house attendances falling alarmingly, venues such as La Scala in Milan are trying to titillate and lure the young The image appears to come straight from a horror movie. A woman cries out in pain and anguish, her cheek streaked with blood. Behind her, figures perform an elaborate dance of death. In letters of crimson red, the tagline screams: "Two fell in love, the others massacred...
Haslam with Cilla Black, friends again, though she's mentioned only in passing in his memoir. Bitches Do you imagine the spirit of Madame Arcati can be barred from a party she is determined to attend? How sad and deluded you must be. Of course I was at Nicky Haslam's Warhol -y parties to mark the publication (at last) of his memoir Redeeming Features . All three of me at the two of them. It was Bonfire...
In life, said Andy Warhol, we get our 15 minutes of fame. In death, it now seems, we are remembered for only another six months.At the heart of one of the world's great old cities, beneath the towering Nelson's Column, Battle...
[PriceUpper at the Dusenberry estate, via Corcoran ] 1) Late ad legend Phil Dusenberry's North Haven home thudded onto the market in late October to the tune of $18 million. But instead of making like the market and PriceChopping, it upped its price today to $25 million . The listing for the 6,800-square-foot, 5BR, 6.5BA home advertises its pool, positioned so that the resident won't have to look...
OLYMPIA, WA -- The 26th Olympia Film Festival at the historic 772-seat single-screen Capitol Theater begins Friday Nov. 6 with the unreleased-on-video 35mm feature "Nothing Lasts Forever", starring Zach Galligan and Bill Murray. Other 35mm prints of unreleased-on-video films include Ken Russell's "The Devils" in a rarely screened LPP print, Paul Newman's adaptation of Ken Kesey's...
Pop Art Studio 4.4 Pop Art Studio is very easy to use graphics editing software. It supports BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG and TIFF formatted images. Pop Art Studio contains many Andy Warhol effects and the famous Roy Lichtenstein effect. The program provides an endless selection of text and drawing tools, filters and color adjustment capabilities. Layers allow you to create complex compositions. Here are some...
This week's Music Weekly has something of a retro feel. Our first guest is Holly Johnson, the Frankie Goes to Hollywood singer, who met with Paul MacInnes ahead of the release of the band's greatest hits package. They discuss gay rights, being propositioned by Andy Warhol (Holly's claim, not Paul's) and being controversialists (ownership of that one is debatable). Now, we may be back to our normal...
Amidst the fall foliage and colonial housing, contemporary art is thriving in a stone barn in Greenwich, CT. Opened back in May, the Brant Foundation Art Study Center displays works from the collection of founder Peter Brant. Through February 2010, a group show comprised of 25 artists including Koons, Clemente, Basquiat, Currin, Haring, Hirst, Schnabel, and Warhol can be seen, and a solo show of Urs...
NIKE GOES POP: WARHOL STYLE The footwear company shows off the new Nike Air Max 90s kicks that feature the many faces of Marilyn Monroe, courtesy of Andy Warhol's famous artwork. World Wide Web - In the 1960s, Pop Art artist Andy Warhol created "mass-produced" images from the photographs of celebrities. His take on a Marilyn Monroe publicity shot by Gene Korman for the 1953 film Niagara...
To say the least, the use of Christian religious iconography in a sincere manner has not been the stuff of contemporary artists or art collectors. On the contrary, and in the last few decades in particular, artists have taken delight in lampooning the depiction of all things bible. You can probably name a few of them without thinking, as opportunistic politicians frequently use their work to raise