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When Pop Art Took a Bullet: The 1968 Shooting of Andy Warhol

On the afternoon of June 3rd 1968 radical writer Valerie Solanas marched into Andy Warhol’s new Union Square studio carrying two handguns and a folder full of grudges. Within minutes three shots tore through…

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Jeff Koons' Balloon Dog is a Monument to Everyday Wonder

Few sculptures have captured the global imagination like Jeff Koons’ Balloon Dog. Towering, glossy, and uncannily familiar, these works reimagine a party trick as a high-art spectacle rendered not in rubber…

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Did the CIA Fund Jackson Pollock? A Cold War Conspiracy in Paint

Can art really change the world? The answer, as strange as it sounds, might lie somewhere between the bold brushstrokes of Jackson Pollock and the shadowy strategies of Cold War intelligence. In…

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