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Blake Gopnik

Blake Gopnik is an art critic whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post and Newsweek. He is the author of the biography Warhol.

Designer, illustrator, painter, cultural force: in New York City, 1962.

How Andy Warhol Came to Paint Campbell’s Soup Cans

He was talented and prosperous, but the young visionary worried the art world had left him behind. Then he discovered soup