The Intriguing Art of Keane’s “Big-Eyed” waifs: The 1964 N.Y. World’s Fair and the Warhol Mural ScandalToday, it’s easy to imagine the beloved artist Margaret Keane, sitting quietly in a sunny room, surrounded by her collection of colorful, hand-painted images of cats and children. Yet, her interesting contribution to America’s turbulent Sixties Pop culture revisits a time where the societal gluttony that gave rise to the middle class system paved the way to a counter-culture that brought nostalgia into a newly christened art style known as Pop Art, which flooded the homes of Americans that craved “something new.” Read More |