The best pop art lands in Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum

A new exhibition dedicated to pop art has just opened its doors at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, in northern Spain.

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00:00 Bill Bauer`s Guggenheim Museum in Spain is soon to feature some pop art. The exhibition

00:08 Signs and Objects Pop Art from the Guggenheim Collection features works from the holdings

00:12 of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. The exhibition showcases the development

00:17 of the pop art movement, which emerged in the late 1950s in England and later in 1960

00:23 in the United States.

00:27 Pop art is really characterized by its use of mass media and visual imagery from popular

00:33 culture, so drawing on billboards, advertisements and newspapers.

00:42 Pop art`s heyday lasted until around the 80s. At the time, society was mainly characterized

00:48 by consumerism. The exhibit is showing at Bill Bauer`s Guggenheim Museum until the 15th

00:54 of September.

00:59 (whooshing)