Andy Warhol would have loved 2016

Andy Warhol, Pop Art’s enfant terrible, would have loved today’s celebrity-obsessed, selfie-driven, gnat’s-attention-span North American culture – and he would have celebrated its profoundly consumerist heart with twinkling relish. His birthday is on August 6.

By Jack Mitchell, CC BY-SA 4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15047586

By Jack Mitchell, CC BY-SA 4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15047586

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol_Museum_of_Modern_Art

Mural at the lesser-known Andy Warhol Museum in Medzilaborce, Slovakia

Everyone knows what this is, right? Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4268566

Everyone knows what this is, right? Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4268566