Pop Art Lecture February 6, 2010

Art historian Debora Rindge will be speaking at the Las Cruces Museum of Art on Saturday, February 6 on the importance of Pop Art and its place in history. Her lecture, titled The Transformative Power of Pop Art: Celebrating the Mundane and Taming Celebrity, will begin at 11 AM in the main gallery. The new exhibition, “Warhol & Pop Art,” opens Friday, February 5 at the Museum and will be on display through Saturday, April 3.

Rindge will discuss how the eight artists featured in "Warhol & Pop Art" treated the subjects of Pop Art with irony and humor, from ordinary objects to famous people. In addition to Warhol, the artists include Jim Dine, Judith Golden, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Liliana Porter, Robert Rauschenberg, and Larry Rivers. These artists found a role for the 20th century phenomena of advertising, television, motion pictures, and glossy magazines in the old traditions of visual art and art history. The prints and photographs in this exhibit reveal fascinating insights about contemporary popular culture and media.

Debbie Rindge is an art historian and the owner of Mirari Fine Art Consulting in Las Cruces. She received her Ph.D. in American Art History from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her publications include catalogues of the collections of American art in the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Funded by the City of Las Cruces, the Las Cruces Museum of Art is located at 491 N. Main Street, at the north end of the downtown mall. Exhibits are accessible and free of charge. For information, call (575) 541-2137 or visit the website http://museums.las-cruces.org.