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The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle

Sex and sensibility: Pop Life at Tate Modern

Pop Life at Tate Modern: Pop Life: Art In A Material World at Tate Modern
Hiropon (1997) by Takashi Murakami, which depicts a fantastical blue-haired woman skipping with a rope curdled from her own breast milk Photograph: Daniel Deme/EPA
Pop Life at Tate Modern: Pop Life: Art in a Material World at Tate Modern
Jeff Koons poses for photographs with his artwork Rabbit (1986). 'Innocent, dumb-looking, but filled with bad intent,' observes Adrian Searle in his review. 'I'm surprised no one's made a horror movie with it' Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images
Pop Life at Tate Modern: Pop Life: Art in a Material World at Tate Modern
Dirty – Jeff on Top (1991) by Jeff Koons, to whose work Tate Modern has devoted an entire room. This centrepiece depicts the artist having sex with his (now, ex-) wife, Italian porn star La Cicciolina Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/Christian Sinibaldi
Pop Life at Tate Modern: Pop Life: Art in a Material World at Tate Modern
A man walks past works by Andy Warhol. Adrian Searle felt there was 'far too much Warholabilia in an exhibition already stuffed to the gills' Photograph: Yui Mok/PA
Pop Life at Tate Modern: Pop Life: Art in a Material World at Tate Modern
A member of staff stands inside a recreation of late artist Keith Haring's New York Pop Shop, which has been restored to all its 'bouncy, jiving glamour' at Tate Modern, says Searle Photograph: Yui Mok/PA
Pop Life at Tate Modern: Pop Life: Art In A Material World at Tate Modern
False Idol (2008) by Damien Hirst, on display alongside selected works from his auction at Sotheby's last year Photograph: Daniel Deme/EPA
Pop Life at Tate Modern: Pop Life: Art in a Material World at Tate Modern
Ingo, Torsten (1992) by Damien Hirst. Searle says it was Hirst who objected to the exhibition's original title – Sold Out – and insisted it be changed Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/Christian Sinibaldi
Pop Life at Tate Modern: Pop Life: Art in a Material World at Tate Modern
Untitled (2009) by Maurizio Cattelan. This dead, stuffed horse lies in an otherwise empty room, impaled through one flank by a placard that reads 'INRI'. Searle observes that Pontius Pilate had a similar sign hung above Jesus on the cross – it means 'Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews' Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi
Pop Life at Tate Modern: Pop Life: Art In A Material World at Tate Modern
The Nazis (1998) by Polish artist Piotr Uklanski Photograph: Daniel Deme/EPA
Pop Life at Tate Modern: Pop Life: Art In A Material World at Tate Modern
House of Martin Luther King (1990) by US artists Rob Pruitt and Walter Early Photograph: Daniel Deme/EPA
Pop Life at Tate Modern: Pop Life: Art in a Modern World at Tate Modern
A woman walks past Meyer Vaisman's In The Vicinity of History (1988) Photograph: Luke Macgregor/Reuters
Pop Life at Tate Modern: Pop Life: Art in a Material World at Tate Modern
A visitor looks at Pop (1993) by artist Gavin Turk. Compared with the exhibitionism displayed by other artists in the show, this YBA's exhibits appear almost quaint, says Searle Photograph: Yui Mok/PA
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