Pop Art Pop-Up

Pop art emerged in Britain and the United States in the late 1950s, becoming a worldwide phenomenon through the 1960s and 1970s. Taking popular culture as a source of inspiration, Pop art often employs bold colors; commercial design, and printing techniques; everyday, sometimes banal, subject matter, or conversely, images from celebrity life and mass media. Pop art had mass appeal, influencing not only artists and designers but also the mass culture itself.  

Pop Art Pop-Up features works drawn from Cranbrook Art Museum’s permanent collection, showcasing the work of iconic Pop artists such as Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, and more. The exhibition also underscores the enduring influence of Pop in the work of later artists and designers like Ed Rossbach, Terence Main, and Keith Haring, and in the work of contemporary artists such as KAWS. 

Works on view in Pop Art Pop-Up pair with this season’s Wainger Workshops, artist-led sessions exploring collage, printmaking, and instant photography on select winter Thursdays. 

Pop Art Pop-Up is curated by Cranbrook Art Museum Director Andrew Satake Blauvelt with the assistance of Kat Goffnett, Associate Curator of Collections, and Katy Kim, the Jeanne and Ralph Graham Curatorial Fellow. Pop Art Pop-Up is indebted to the significant gifts from Dr. John and Rose Shuey, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Estate of George Francoeur and Gerald Earls, and Kari and Nicholas Coburn, among others.

Cranbrook Art Museum is generously supported by the Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Foundation, the Kresge Foundation, the MASCO Foundation, the DeRoy Testamentary Foundation, the Governors of Cranbrook Academy of Art and Cranbrook Art Museum, members of the Museum Committee, and ArtMembers at Cranbrook.

This project is supported by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.