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What are some of the most famous Pop Art films, pictures, and paintings? By far the most productive Pop Art gallery and studio was Andy Warhol's Factory, which was situated in the heart of the action in Union Square in New York City. During the late '60s and early '70s, the Factory was abuzz with creative action, drug use, and celebrity gossip.
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After studying art and literature at the prestigious Yale University, Oldenburg took evening classes at the Art Institute of Chicago, from 1950 to 1952. He moved to New York in 1956. There he met Allan Kaprow, the inventor of the Happening, who invited him to take part in these events. This is how Oldenburg began organising his own Happenings.
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HANSA STUDIOS, in Berlin, where David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Nina Hagen all recorded career-defining albums, looks out these days on a modern red-brick apartment complex behind the gleaming new Potsdamer Platz. But in the late 1970s, when Bowie and company were recording there, the landscape was bleakly romantic: a sandy wasteland marked only by the Berlin Wall, which inspired Mr. Bowie’s epochal song “Heroes.”...
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There has been a huge renaissance going on around the lost art of burlesque. Clubs popping up all over the place tapping into the mythology of sex. In demand with this nostalgia is Helmut Newton, who was one of the fashion world's most famous and iconoclastic photographers, dubbed "the king of kink" by Time magazine. June was his wife, frequent model, and muse. This month Cinemax Reel Life presents "Helmut by June", a candid video portrait of Helmut Newton, an icon of 20th Century photography, as chronicled by his frequent collaborator and wife, June.
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