Topic: Andy Warhol

What Would Warhol Do?

In the future, everyone will be a retailer for 15 minutes. Andy Warhol never said that. But he did say this: "The people who have the best fame are those who have their names on stores. The people with very big stores named after them ...READ»

Art Mania in Miami

The art world's been making headlines recently, with record auction prices for both modern and contemporary art set at Sotheby’s and Christies’ last month. But they, evidently, were simply the appetizer course to the Grand Buffet ...READ»

Poetry in Motion

I've always been fascinated by the leap from consumer product to cultural icon -- when and how this happens and, of course, when you notice it. Maybe it's the first time you hear someone use Tivo as a verb. Or the first time you hear ...READ»

The Getty's Made for Manufacture Exhibition

Long before Andy Warhol and his soup cans or Damien Hirst and his one-man auction show, art and commerce were intimate bedfellows. This Getty show reminds us just how long, with 23 drawings done by Renaissance and Baroque artists ...READ»

Art Basel Miami: Has Art Basel Lost its Cool?

Staring at the big, sparkly Tom Friedman painting, "Glitterbattle," in the Gagosian booth, the woman in the red flowered house dress, yellow socks, and black sneakers, was inspired. So was her companion, dressed in khaki shorts, an ...READ»

Pop!Tech: What Can Innovators Learn from Pirates?

Matt Mason, author of "The Pirates' Dilemma," spoke at Pop!Tech this morning about what we can learn from pirates. These seven tips may save your company.READ»

• Pop!Tech: Is Larry Page the Ben Bernake of the Internet?
• Pop!Tech: Cellphones Used to Fight AIDS in South Africa

Shepard Fairey Strikes Back! The Artist Breaks His Silence on the AP, Obama, and Warhol

We don't have to remind you of chapters 1 through 15 of the Saga of Shepard Fairey, in which the artist saw a photo, made a poster, got famous, got sued by the AP for seeing that photo, and subsequently suffered scathing criticism ...READ»

Shopdropping at Wal-Mart: A Retail Experiment

Debbie Millman takes products of her own design to a Wal-Mart Supercenter to see how they hold up to the competition.READ»

• Debbie Millman's Look Both Ways blog

OgilvyOne to Marketers: Let's Get Digital

The boys on stage at OgilvyOne’s big digital convergence at Jazz at Lincoln Center yesterday looked suspiciously like they had wandered in from Internet World circa 1999…earnest young West Coast geeks, with big ideas and even ...READ»

Weirdness Goes Uptown: Tim Burton Artwork to Debut at MOMA

A European journalist at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) this morning asked filmmaker Tim Burton, "What was it like growing up in Burbank, California?" "Have you ever seen Dante's 'Inferno?'" he shot back.Actually, he said, ...READ»

Consumer Perceptions, Manipulation and Molding

Turns out that we as consumers can be easily manipulated -- and it's probably happening far more often that we'd like to imagine. A couple of studies released this year draw attention to this. The first demonstrates that consumers ...READ»

Change Agent - Issue 48

When it comes to food, music, and more, which do you prefer: ubiquity or authenticity?READ»

An Authenticity Timeline

From Disney's opening of Main Street USA in 1955 to user-generated content, here's a look at how authenticity has evolved over time.READ»

How to Run Your Brand Like a Therapist

To keep consumers coming back, companies should consider getting in touch with their feelings.READ»

• Graham Button's blog Like it or Not

The Brand Called URL

At the heart of the Web are two important lessons about your career: You are your most important product, and everything about you gets more valuable when you use technology to leverage it.READ»

The Self-Prescribing Media Doctor #16

What is there left to say about the King that has not been said, other than the music he left behind is as immortal as anything that be dared be called immortal.  "My Way" is an obvious song for the independent of mind but a ...READ»

3 Tips any Business can use to let Customers in the Conversation

Movies are so compelling. There’s a reason for that. They’re distilled stories we can identify with and feel something about - the hero, the villain, even the lover. It’s all so simple in a movie. They tell us something about ...READ»

Mad Men, George Lois, and Advertising's Creative Revolution

In the wake of Mad Men's Season Two finale, legendary profanity-spewing ad man George Lois checks in with his own take on the golden age of Madison Avenue. (Hint: he thinks it ain't the same these days.)READ»

Poetic Justice

On the sensual minimalism and psychedelic mind of Karim RashidREAD»

Between the Lines

The stories behind this issue's stories.READ»

He's the Voice of the Net Generation

Millions of times a day, AOL users hear a familiar greeting: "You've got mail!" but they probably haven't heard of the man behind the message. Meet Elwood Edwards.READ»

Now February

A calendar of events this month.READ»

Plastic Fantastic: Barbie and Kartell Rock Milan

The world's favorite plastic party girl and the furniture industry's favorite plastic purveyor have teamed up in a brilliant collaboration to celebrate their respective birthdays at the big furniture fair in Milan. ...READ»

The Hard Life and Restless Mind of America's Education Billionaire

John Sperling was born dirt-poor, fell in with Communists, and became a union organizer who led a strike that ended in disaster. Today, he runs the world's largest for-profit university -- and a company whose shares are defying gravity on Wall Street. So why do so many smart people say such terrible things about him? And why does he relish their attacks?READ»

Ijango - Cameron Sharpe

 Ijango Sonic - Ijango Pizza Hut Jimi Hendrix's former roadie James '"Tappy" Wright has claimed that the late guitar legend was murdered by his manager, Michael Jeffrey. In his new book Rock Roadie, Wright claims that ...READ»