The exhibition, which showcases about 200 works by 70 artists and runs through to June 18, looks at American pop art or printmaking over the past six decades, a period when the country's wealth, power and cultural influence had never been greater. "In the first half of the show we are looking at pop, conceptualism, minimalism (and) abstraction. In the second part we are looking at various social issues within America (over) those six decades," Hugo Chapman, Simon Sainsbury Keeper of Prints & Drawings at the British Museum, told Reuters. Employees pose at the entrance of the exhibition 'The American Dream: pop to the present' at the British Museum in London, Britain, March 6, 2017. The exhibition, dubbed "The American Dream: Pop to the present", includes works by pop art legend Andy Warhol and others who shaped the movement, like Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, Chuck Close, Louise Bourgeois and Kara Walker.

Source: bd News24 March 09, 2017 21:30 UTC