A panoramic look at art in America in the second half of the twentieth century,
through the eyes of the visionary curator who helped shape it.
An innovative, iconoclastic curator of contemporary art, Walter Hopps founded
his first gallery in L.A. at the age of twenty-one. At twenty-four, he opened
the Ferus Gallery with then-unknown artist Edward Kienholz, where he turned the
spotlight on a new generation of West Coast artists. Ferus was also the first
gallery ever to show Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans and was shut down by the
L.A. vice squad for a show of Wallace Berman's edgy art. At the Pasadena Art
Museum