Secretly Incredibly Fascinating - BONUS SHOW 188: "Three Amazing Stories Of Artistic And Legal Dollar Signs"
This is the bonus show for Episode 188! (The Dollar Sign)
Alex Schmidt, Katie Goldin, and Ross Blocher explore the obviously incredibly fascinating topic of dollar signs in the art of Andy Warhol, a dollar sign-centric painting by Frida Kahlo, and a legal case solved by one printing of one dollar sign.
RESEARCH SOURCES:
Exhibitions: Andy Warhol Dollar Signs (Van De Weghe Fine Art New York)
Andy Warhol: "Dollar Sign", 1981 (Tate Galleries UK)
Hidden Brain Podcast blog: "Why do words sound weird sometimes?"
Frida Kahlo’s Forgotten Politics (JStor Daily)
Frida Kahlo: "My Dress Hangs There, 1933" (WikiArt Visual Art Encyclopedia)
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera Materials in the Hoover Institution Archives
The Font Detectives: For typography experts like Thomas Phinney, the history of the printed word is crucial to weeding out fraud. (JStor Daily)
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