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James Rosenquist

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The Pop artist James Rosenquist captures the hyperbright, supersaturated colors of commercial culture in his paintings. Kurt and Mr. Rosenquist tour a current retrospective of his work at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The paintings there stretch back to the 1960’s and contain a surreal montage of lipsticks and bleaches and dishes and fighter […]

James Rosenquist

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Warhol’s Soup Cans

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Special Guest: John Cale

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James Rosenquist

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American Icons: Warhol’s Soup Cans

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Andy Warhol told people he painted soup because he ate it for lunch every day, but 50 years later, the paintings remain mysterious.

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