Pop Art News
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Choi Hyun Mi gathered with 17 other South Korean citizens on the evening of Feb. 24 as a full moon rose above Seoul. President Park Geun Hye chose the 22-year-old woman along with the others to celebrate the start of her five years as the nation’s 11th president. At midnight, as Park’s term began, they rang the iconic Bosingak bell.
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People walk through a downpour yet never get wet.
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Richard Hamilton, an artist known as the father of British Pop Art, died early this morning at age 89. The cause of death was not given.
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Roy Lichtenstein paints flowers and sculpts ceramic tea cups. Tom Wesselman does close-ups of red lips and belts. Vija Celmins makes hyper-real pencils and erasers.
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This is a rubbish exhibition.
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“It smells funny in here,” a little girl observed, as she screwed up her face and held her nose.
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“I can’t think of a time when I wasn’t fascinated by Munnings,” said Jacqueline Mars, co-owner of Mars Inc.
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Edouard Manet once took umbrage at a sarcastic remark someone made about one of his paintings. He ran the offender through the shoulder with a sword.
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In the mid-1960s, a young Richard Serra was working as a furniture mover and experimenting with time, process and material alongside friends such as composer Philip Glass, actor Spalding Gray and choreographer Trisha Brown.
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The art collection of the late Gunter Sachs, the German multimillionaire who was once married to Brigitte Bardot, will be sold at a May auction in London.
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