Among postwar artists, Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997) most vividly embodies the paradox of high and low culture. His name is virtually synonymous with Pop Art, a movement that sought to collapse the distance between everyday images and fine art, between the mass-produced world of comics, advertising, and consumer culture, and the sanctified walls of museums. YetContinue reading “Roy Lichtenstein: The Grammar of Pop and the Art of Quotation”
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EMST Athens
I wasn’t expecting to fall for an industrial building in Athens, but the former FIX brewery has a way of winning hearts. Once a post-war brewery, this modernist landmark is now home to the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), a bold cultural hub where creativity thrives.
My World of Interiors 