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Tate Modern Exhibition

Pop Life: Art in a Material World

1 October 2009 – 17 January 2010
Banner design with a black background and the words Pop Life written in blue and pink neon lights
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Pop Life: Jeff Koons Rabbit

‘Good business is the best art,’ Andy Warhol once provocatively claimed. Tate Modern's hit autumn exhibition Pop Life examines how artists since the 1980s have cultivated their public persona as a product, and conjured a dazzling mix of media, commerce and glamour to build their own 'brands'. Beginning with the grandfather of Pop, Andy Warhol, the show includes Jeff Koons's infamous Made in Heaven series and his stainless steel Rabbit sculpture, an iconic array of golden spot and butterfly paintings from Damien Hirst's record-breaking 2008 auction, and a reconstruction of Keith Haring's Pop Shop in New York. Also included will be works by Richard Prince, Martin Kippenberger, and the notorious YBAs, and a new commission by Takashi Murakami.

Please be aware that some works in this exhibition are of a sexual nature which you may find challenging. Admission to three of the rooms is restricted to over 18s.

Take Part in a Damien Hirst Performance

[Archive information] For the exhibition, Tate Modern recreated Damien Hirst’s performance shown at Cologne’s Unfair art fair in 1992. Identical twins sat beneath two identical spot paintings for the duration of Pop Life: Art in a Material World. Tate Modern appealed for identical twins to take part in this performance.

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1 October 2009 – 17 January 2010

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  • Black and white photograph of Bob Colacello and Andy Warhol in the offices of Interview magazine

    Me and Andy... and Ronald Reagan

    Bob Colacello

    Me and Andy... and Ronald Reagan, Pop Life: Art in a Material World Tate Etc issue 17 feature

  • Eduardo Sarabia Casa de Piedra 2009

    Mirror of the mass

    Steven Henry Madoff

    Mirror of the mass, Pop Life: Art in a Material World, Tate Etc issue 17 Autumn 2009

  • Lost Art: Keith Haring - section of Berlin Wall mural

    Lost Art: Keith Haring

    Jennifer Mundy

    The Gallery of Lost Art is an immersive, online exhibition that tells the fascinating stories of artworks that have disappeared. Each week, a new story of loss is added

  • Martin Kippenberger

    Martin Kippenberger past exhibition at Tate Modern 2006

  • Damien Hirst exhibition banner

    Damien Hirst

    The first substantial survey of Damien Hirst's work in a British institution, bringing together key works from over twenty years.

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    Andy Warhol

    1928–1987
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    Jeff Koons

    born 1955
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    Tracey Emin

    born 1963
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    Martin Kippenberger

    1953–1997
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    Damien Hirst

    born 1965
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    Richard Prince

    born 1949
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