“What’s interesting about Pop as a term,” says International Pop co-curator Bartholomew Ryan, is that it’s “a linguistic virus that gloms itself onto any production by artists of the period that engages the popular real.” Part two of the International Pop three-part documentary looks at the global pervasiveness of Pop tendencies in art during the 1960s.
With the passing of Hugh Hefner on September 27, 2017, we revisit a 2015 reflection by Jann Haworth, the Pop artist best known for co-designing the cover for the Beatles's acclaimed 1967 album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Here, she tells how a birthday gift intended for Hefner—a life-sized Playboy Bunny—became a feminist artwork. "Despite the short skirt, the satin—broderie anglaise—she is not the object of the 'play' boy: she is a working girl."
