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...this all sounds shrewdly (if not cynically) calculating, relax?Murakami has no qualms about being calculating. Few artists this side of Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons (both of whom Murakami counts as major influences) have spent as much time strategizing their careers, calibrating their output according to the laws of supply-and-demand?all the while keeping an eye on how the mandarins of culture perceive their mercantilist ways. (Is he a sellout? Is it art? Are such distinctions even relevant anymore? These are questions that fuel Murakami's career.) Murakami purposely engineers a neo-Pop Art universality...
...Iraqi boy staring in wonder at the larger-than-life painting of a Barbie doll on a looted wardrobe door in Baghdad [IMAGES OF WAR, April 21]. I thought of 20th century artists who painted to shock (Dali) or promote an ironic view of American commercial icons (Warhol). None hit the mark of image and meaning that this photo does. CHARLIE RICHARDSON Atlanta...
...Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign the same way again." --Andy Warhol...
...their hearts, many TV producers probably fancy themselves Andy Warhols: pop artists who make the stuff of mass culture and commerce into art, as Warhol did with the Campbell's soup can. Dick Wolf thinks of himself as the Campbell Soup Co. The man who runs the Law & Order empire--on which, thanks to spin-offs and cable repeats, the sun never sets--had a first career in advertising, writing copy for the likes of Crest toothpaste. So it is without irony that he often compares his cop shows to the red-and-white can. "If you like soup...
...smart enough to capitalize on his talent. A line of Gaultier bags and shoes would surely work. Irish milliner Philip Treacy also showed in Paris, the first hat maker to do so in over 80 years. He used the chance to promote a new department-store line of Warhol hats, which, while quirky and conceptual, lack the beauty of his earlier designs. But in times like these, a line in the store is worth two on the runway...