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Posts on ‘August 13th, 2009’

What Icons Tell Us About Their Homelands

Studio 360, Kurt Andersen’s radio show on NPR about art, runs a sporadic “American Icons Series.” As I was listening to an installment about Andy Warhol on Saturday, it occurred to me that Warhol’s fame says just as much about the United States as it does about him. Despite having only marginal artistic skills, Warhol [...]