On the 50th anniversary of Oz magazine’s era-defining launch in Britain, biographer Joyce Morgan tells how the artist who produced its most famous images was liberated by the political culture he ...

Pop artist, underground cartoonist, and chronicler of swinging London, Martin Sharp helped invent the psychedelic aesthetic that would define the look of 1960s counter-culture. Yet, despite the ...

NEW YORK — He painted Marilyn Monroe blooming in a van Gogh vase, devoted decades to documenting the cultural significance of Tiny Tim, and was sentenced to prison for breaking obscenity laws in his ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. From his schooldays to the end of his life Sharp turned images that might seem trivial or ephemeral into monuments. He had a natural ...

ELEANOR HALL: He was acclaimed internationally for his colourful images of Luna Park and Marilyn Monroe, and his cartoons and illustrations lit up the pages of the Australian satirical magazine, Oz.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Turning the pages of the hefty Rizzoli monograph, Punk: An Aesthetic, is an excursion into an austere underground; it's all ragged ...

Martin Sharp, co-founder of Oz magazine and one of Australia's best-known artists, has died in Sydney at the age of 71. Martin Sharp, who's died at his Sydney home, was an influential artist, ...

Martin Sharp, who has died aged 71, was Australia’s foremost pop artist and designed psychedelic posters and album covers for musicians including Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan; he was also one of the ...

Martin Sharp’s exuberantly colourful posters and album covers encapsulated the spirit of the Swinging Sixties. Although he became one of Australia’s best-loved artists in later years, he remained an ...