I had the pleasure of going to Manhattan with two of my most favorite people, Ellen and Geronimo, and now we get to have a chat with Ellen, and this adventure that we took had us in all of these different museums, and so I'm gonna try to keep Ellen focused on one of the museums.
Okay.
We're gonna stick to the Guggenheim and that pop art, pop 1960s to current.
Before we stepped into the museum, Ellen, what was your idea of what pop art is?
Well, my idea of pop art is probably a lot different than a lot of people's, but I just thought it was, like, very, very modern, that it had to be, like, in the current, like, past 20 years, and I really did not have a specific idea, and really no knowledge of it.
I mean, no established knowledge, no-
... intelligent knowledge.
I think that is why I was thrilled you were on this trip, because we had some really fun conversations as we were winding our way around the Guggenheim, looking at some of the work.
And, you know, you just put a timeframe on pop art of the last 20 years, and I wanna make sure we back up a little bit.
Right.
And then as the '60s were rolling along, you know, the US was finally getting on board, and I think we as those of us here in the US, we always think of our pop art, and that actually is what we were seeing mostly when we went through this exhibit.
Well, it certainly expanded my knowledge, which I had very little of.
I just thought, "Oh, I'm gonna love pop art," 'cause I, I really enjoy learning and going to see as much art as I can.
In fact, I have a, a little list of what I wanna do next time when we go on our next art trip to New York.
There's, I know we did so many-
...
but I do have one more that I want [laughs] and one more museum.
Oh, my goodness.
And go back to some of these, too.
I had the pleasure of going to Manhattan with two of my most favorite people, Ellen and Geronimo, and now we get to have a chat with Ellen, and this adventure that we took had us in all of these different museums, and so I'm gonna try to keep Ellen focused on one of the museums.
Okay.
We're gonna stick to the Guggenheim and that pop art, pop 1960s to current.
Before we stepped into the museum, Ellen, what was your idea of what pop art is?
Well, my idea of pop art is probably a lot different than a lot of people's, but I just thought it was, like, very, very modern, that it had to be, like, in the current, like, past 20 years, and I really did not have a specific idea, and really no knowledge of it.
I mean, no established knowledge, no-
... intelligent knowledge.
I think that is why I was thrilled you were on this trip, because we had some really fun conversations as we were winding our way around the Guggenheim, looking at some of the work.
And, you know, you just put a timeframe on pop art of the last 20 years, and I wanna make sure we back up a little bit.
Right.
And then as the '60s were rolling along, you know, the US was finally getting on board, and I think we as those of us here in the US, we always think of our pop art, and that actually is what we were seeing mostly when we went through this exhibit.
Well, it certainly expanded my knowledge, which I had very little of.
I just thought, "Oh, I'm gonna love pop art," 'cause I, I really enjoy learning and going to see as much art as I can.
In fact, I have a, a little list of what I wanna do next time when we go on our next art trip to New York.
There's, I know we did so many-
...
but I do have one more that I want [laughs] and one more museum.
Oh, my goodness.
And go back to some of these, too.
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