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Andy Warhol Self-Portrait Fetches $17 Million

LONDON -- A self-portrait by Andy Warhol has sold for 10.8 million pounds ($17 million) - double its pre-sale estimate - at a London auction. Getty Images A self-porrait by Andy Warhol has sold for 10.8 million pounds ($17 million). Christie's says the work had been in a private collection since 1974. It is...

Nicolas Cage as You've Never Seen Him: as a Snow Monkey

(Sept. 8) -- Celebrity culture might be low-brow, but that doesn't mean it hasn't influenced the high art world. Just ask artist Brandon Bird, who is having his own brush with fame thanks to his paintings of celebrities like Chuck Norris, Christopher Walken and Nicolas Cage. Bird, 30, is not content to simply regurgitate...

Man Charged With Selling Stolen Warhol

(Nov. 23) - In the pop art world, the provocative Andy Warhol made a big splash. On Monday, one of his classic works proved his 15 minutes are far from over. Federal authorities announced Nov. 23 they had charged James S. Biear, 49, of Ossining, N.Y., with stealing a Warhol work -- a silkscreen on a wooden crate mimicking...

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06/02/12 Pop Art ~ Now and Then at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery Source: Art Knowledge News Exploring the relationships and connections between the Pop Art of the 1960s and contemporary art today.
06/02/12 The Andy Warhol Museum Presents the Comic Book Art of... Source: Art Knowledge News The Andy Warhol Museum is proud to present "Heroes & Villains: The Comic Book Art of Alex Ross" on view at the museum through January 8th 2012.
05/23/12 Tom Wesselmann celebrated in new Montreal exhibit Source: CBC.ca American artist Tom Wesselmann was a pioneer of the pop art movement and yet his contribution is often overshadowed by contemporaries such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, who became household names.
05/23/12 Art Institute Of Chicago Opens Roy Lichtenstein... Source: Gadling The Art Institute of Chicago has one great exhibition after another and is definitely on Gadling's top ten list of things to see in the Windy City.
05/23/12 More Warhol on the way Source: TampaBay.com Andy Warhol comes and goes, with one exhibition newly opened and another about to depart.