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Tate Modern's big autumn show, Pop Life: Art in a Material World, which will look at the legacy of Andy Warhol's declaration that "good business is the best art". The exhibition, three years in the planning, will look at subsequent artists at their most self-aggrandising – from Jeff Koons to Tracey Emin.Tate Modern's chief curator Sheena Wagstaff said they wanted to pinpoint the moment in the 1980s when "a key aspect of late Warhol became a thrilling legacy for subsequent generations of artists". The show will explore how, after Warhol, artists have not only commented on the mass media culture of the last 30 years, but have been very much a part of it, infiltrating the cult of celebrity.

Guardian
May 12 2009