Unknown artist, “Untitled” (Woman holding pig, cop in pursuit) (1960–75), tempera on illustration board, 15 x 11 in (38.1 x 27.94 cm) Postwar pulp art south of the border was distinctly surreal. In ...

We’ve been swimming in the 1960s for decades, replaying the era like a classic-rock album. The artistic movements that came out of that time remain as fixed as the stars: Pop, minimalism, ...

“Pirodactyl over New York,” a “shooting painting” from 1962 by Niki de Saint Phalle The first special exhibition in 2022 after the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego opens its expanded La Jolla ...

In the beginning there was Ferus. So starts many a mistaken notion of the postwar Los Angeles art scene, which slowly but surely erupted into prominence after Ferus Gallery opened on La Cienega ...

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The problem of time in 1960s art is hardly a new subject. Robert Morris and Michael Fried put the consideration of "real time" at the center of critical debate in their respective essays "Notes on ...

For many who lived through the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, it was magical and surreal. Writer Mark Rozzo wanted to explore one intersection of the cultural shifts - how new waves in contemporary ...

Walker Art Center revisits Claes Oldenburg's 1960s art and finds the germ of today's polished Pop in his rougher, more acerbic early work.With his "Spoonbridge and Cherry," New York-based artist Claes ...

Mark Rozzo talks about his latest book Everybody Thought We Were Crazy. It offers a look into the relationship between Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward and their impact on 1960s Los Angeles. For many ...