William Copley (artist) occurring in America when he returned to New York in the 1960s. Artists like Andy Warhol, Christo, Roy Lichtenstein and many others were frequent visitors at Copley's studio on Lower Broadway. Copley believed that pop art had always interested him, claiming American pop art had much to do with "self-disgust" and "satire." In 1967, after a divorce with his second wife, Noma, Copley and new friend Dmitri Petrov decided to publish portfolios of 20th-century artist collaborations with the abbreviation SMS (for "Shit Must Stop"). Copley's Upper West Side loft became a meeting place for performers, artists, curators, and composers to
Pop-up book York. Her pop-up books, movable books, and tunnel books are in the collections of The Getty Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, The Smithsonian Institution, and the Museum of Modern Art. Some pop-up books receive attention as literary works for the degree of artistry or sophistication which they entail. One example is "", by Matthew Reinhart. This book received literary attention for its elaborate pop-ups, and the skill of its imagery, with "The New York Times" saying that "calling this sophisticated piece of engineering a 'pop-up book' is like calling the Great Wall of China a partition". The 1967