PAINTING BELOW ZERO Notes on a Life in Art By James Rosenquist with David Dalton Illustrated. 370 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $50 POP The Genius of Andy Warhol By Tony Scherman and David Dalton Illustrated. 509 pp. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. $40 ANDY WARHOL By Arthur C. Danto Illustrated. 162 pp. Yale University Press. $24 Is it possible for an...
PAINTING BELOW ZERO Notes on a Life in Art By James Rosenquist with David Dalton Illustrated. 370 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $50. In his 1996 book, ''True Colors: The Real Life of the Art World,'' Anthony Haden-Guest wrote that the painter James Rosenquist possessed, most of the time, a ''preternaturally healthy glow, like a hand-colored photograph.''...

With the Whitney Biennial opening next week, the mammoth Armory Show the week after and ''The Art Show,'' the annual fair presented by the Art Dealers Association of America, now in progress, three of New York's most exciting weeks for contemporary art are upon us. ''The Art Show,'' a gathering of 70 dealers at the Seventh Regiment Armory, is the...