Pop Life: Art in a Material World explores the complex relationship between contemporary art, commerce, marketing and the mass media that has evolved since the late 1980s when
Andy Warhol uttered his provocative maxim that 鈥済ood business is the best art.鈥 Featuring artists often known as much for their notoriety as for their art, the exhibition traces how
Warhol,
Jeff Koons,
Richard Prince,
Keith Haring,
Tracey Emin,
Damien Hirst,
Takashi Murakami,
Martin Kippenberger and numerous other high-profile figures from the international art world from the 1980s to today have developed iconic, at times even famous, signature 鈥渂rands鈥 using their artistic persona as much as their art.