Is Stephen Colbert the new Campbell's Soup Can? He is on 14th Street, where Hey, It's Cat spotted this piece of street art on a mailbox between 8th and 9th avenues. Colbert's network approves, over at Comedy Central Insider they write, "Honestly, it's some of the best vandalism I've ever seen that doesn't involve an unchaste lady's phone number." more ›

If you're leaving your home unattended for the holidays, lock up your Lichtensteins! Over Thanksgiving a Manhattan apartment was broken in to—the thieves tunneled through a hallway wall!—and prints by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein were stolen. According to the Daily News, police say the burglars took 5 works (including a set of 8 prints by Warhol), as well as Cartier and Rolex watches and other jewels. All in all they took $750,000 worth of goods from Robert Romanoff, president of Nebraska Meat Corp. (founded by his family in New York in 1905). Romanoff also owns the five-story Meatpacking District building on Gansevoort Street that the thieves stole his property from. more ›

If you've ever seen Warhol's Factory, it was likely in part through the lens of Nat Finkelstein, who documented much of that era and the characters who created it. The photographer died of pneumonia and emphysema on October 2nd at the age of 76, while at his home in Shandaken, New York. The NY Times notes that he was the house photographer at the Factory from 1964 to 1967, and "created spontaneous portraits not only of Factory regulars like Sedgwick and Gerard Malanga but also of the artists and celebrities who drifted in and out of the Warhol orbit." more ›

The big Pop Burger location that opened on East 58th Street last winter has gotten a threatening letter from lawyers because of a wall-length mural depicting Andy Warhol's famed Campbell's soup cans. What's funny is that it's not the Warhol estate who sent the C&D, but the Campbell corporation, who contend that customers will think that the burger mecca is "affiliated with or sponsored by Campbell in some way." Speaking to the Post, a Pop Burger rep went ape on the 139-year-old soup company: "Who knew that Campbell's Soup still existed? The only reason they are probably still in business is because Andy gave them a place in pop culture history that will forever be celebrated as some of the best art work ever created. And as for their request—come and try to take them down. They don't have a can to p - - - in or a window to throw it out of regarding the legality of their request." more ›

Nearly three decades ago, Andy Warhol's dealer made a list of 100 prominent 20th century Jews. Warhol created silkscreen paintings of ten of them. The show, Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century, premiered at The Jewish Museum in 1980. It was met with both admiration and criticism, and turned a pretty penny for the painter. more ›

Everyone is abuzz about the latest art world scandal, and here's what is known about the life of the Warhol painting at the center of the controversy.

1981: Andy Warhol creates a number of his "Dollar Sign" pieces, using the same theme with different colors and sizes. Medium: polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas. more ›