'60s Poster Boy Goes Multimedia; Peter Max Remakes Himself Online and on TV

The Washington Post | March 6, 2000| | Copyright

Peter Max loves trivia. "Do you know how many people watch QVC?" he asks.

The '60s pop artist is standing over a table lined with Woodstock '99 posters that he will hawk on the cable shopping channel that evening. With one of those fat black markers that make a room reek, he starts swishing "Max" across 100 of them.

"About 3.5 million people watch QVC." He's already signed 10 posters. "You know how big that is? That's the population of all of Manhattan." He's up to No. 30. "That's the size of 70 stadiums." He's reaching the bottom of the heap. "But you're not a speck of dust up on the stage. ...

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