“All art is equal,” said the English artist Richard Hamilton, who died in 2011 at age 89, “there was no hierarchy of value. Elvis was to one side of a long line while Picasso was strung out on the other side … TV is neither less nor more legitimate an influence than, for example, is New York Abstract Expressionism.” Hamilton was kicked out of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1946 for “not profiting from the instruction.” He moved on to the Slade School of Arts, and in the 1950s became a member of the Independent Group—artists who thought mass culture needed to be absorbed into discussions of high culture. He was a major proponent of Pop art. Hamilton became one of the country’s most acclaimed artists, creating renowned paintings and collages. The exhibition at Galerie Buchholz includes prints the artist did while thinking of a flower he’d seen as a child in Picardy, Brabant, back in 1930. —Elena Clavarino