Pop to Popism Exhibition at Art Gallery of NSW

‘Popular, witty, sexy, glamorous’ – pop art exploded onto the cultural scene in the 1960s. The pop artists rebelled against ‘high art’ to embrace the new world of advertising, television, film stars, pop music and consumerism. Pop art shocked many but inspired even more. This summer, re-live the pop revolution as Pop to popism takes over the Gallery. Spanning three decades from the mid 1950s to the 1980s, the exhibition traces the origins of pop art, its heady high period ...