HAMBURG.- The exhibition Pop Life takes
Andy Warhol’s famously provocative claim that “good business is the best art” as
the starting point for a completely new interpretation of the legacy of Pop art
and the influence of its chief protagonists. Pop Life shows the
various ways in which artists since the 1980s have engaged with the mass media,
often involving the deliberate creation and cultivation of an artistic persona
as a ‘brand’. The exhibition features works by Andy Warhol alongside
key pieces by Keith Haring, Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Richard Prince, Martin
Kippenberger, Tracey Emin, Takashi Murakami and others. Some 320 exhibits will
be on display, including paintings, drawings, photographs, magazines,
sculptures, videos, merchandising products, spatial installations and a
shop.  On view through 9 May, 2010
at the Hamburger
Kunsthalle.