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“The greatest minds and creators have led us through history and have placed upon us a foundation for greatness, an ambition to strive for the best humanity can achieve; yet still we search,” writes Paula Catherine Valencia in her essay “Map of the Soul” in Soul of Science, a new book of artwork by her…

POP Gallery Denver knows the importance art plays in a community, and it's a task they're willing to tackle head on. Looking to enrich the residents of the Denver metro, POP Gallery Denver continues to provide art lovers with a thought provoking alternative, one that often times gets left behind in the world of…

A vintage 1950s television broadcasts a new, colorful image inside its wood-paneled frame. Artist Brent Learned remembers the black-and-white Indian-head test pattern often used by broadcast television stations into the 1970s. He recently mimicked the design in his piece “Stay Tuned…,” making it his own with splashes of bright, bold colors. “If you grew up…

By MIA NAKAJI MONNIER Rafu Online Editor Joel Nakamura spends lots of his time with creatures: monsters, bugs, and mythical beasts. Some are cultural icons, like Godzilla and Ultraman. Some are his teachers, like the tengu spirits, long-nosed Shinto beings that students of aikido invite into their practice. But most of them are his own…

Maurice Sendak’s 1963 children’s book Where the Wild Things Are has endured because it speaks to the imagination and frustrations of youth. It’s a story about a child learning his lesson in his own way, tempering his emotions and embracing them at the same time. A young boy named Max is sent to his room…

Ted Geisel, aka Theodor Seuss Geisel, known commercially as Dr. Seuss was a political cartoonist long before writing & illustrating "children's " books. Addressing controversial political & environmental concerns as a paid cartoonist For Judge & PM Magazines, Geisel was a core American voice as early as 1930. Read on… Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904 –…

"Punk Rock and medieval Catholicism, ancient alchemy and post-modern surrealism-Daniel Martin Diaz creates paintings that set the Christian symbols of Dark Ages Europe..." see full article at pasatiempo.com or contact us for full story. (4 page article with Cover art by Diaz for the July 24 2010 Spanish Market Pasatiempo issue.) Contact POP Gallery for…

Gallery Preview Two Albuquerque artists take an unconventional approach to visions of death By Samara Alpern “Coronacion de la Virgen,” Maria Sena The devil may reach out with bristled claws to grab your hair. But, then again, he may not. It may be that butterflies carry you into the ether. It’s hard to say what…

“Lowbrow” begat” POP surrealism, which begat “New Brow” or did Pop Surrealism begat Low Brow, which begat New Brow all begat by some postmodern paradigm and the embattled belief that somewhere on the continuing journey “Art” took a turn off the well-traveled road and found itself on the corner of “POP” and “Counter Culture” where…

BASEL, Switzerland— The 41st edition of Art Basel, the premier and now middle-aged modern and contemporary art fair in the world, opened promptly at 11 a.m. today for a select gang of VIP guests, the first of a three-tiered, timed pecking order for various levels of the art elite. On the main floor of Hall…

POP Art’s “Fizz” Stays Potent Joe Jancsurak New names in the world of Pop Art and their works will be an important draw at this month’s Artexpo New York, just as they have been since “The World’s Largest Fine and Popular Art Fair” in 1978. Pop Art first emerged in England in the mid-1950s and…