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
Iggy Pop Auto IV", which also included the Stooges song "I Wanna Be Your Dog" (though the game's manual credited Iggy Pop as the artist). Iggy Pop guested on "Profanation", the new album by the Bill Laswell-helmed group Praxis, which was released on January 1, 2008. Iggy Pop collaborated with Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse on the album "Dark Night of the Soul", singing the track "Pain". Iggy Pop's fifteenth solo album, "Préliminaires", was released on June 2, 2009. Inspired by a novel by French author Michel Houellebecq called "La Possibilité d'une île" (2005; Trans. as "The Possibility of an Island" by Gavin