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We are one of the most comprehensive single-artist museums in the world and the largest in North America. The Screen Tests are 3‑minute filmed portraits of Warhol Factory regulars and visitors, in which the subjects stared back at or enjoyed the attention of the stationary camera, constructing their own personas before our eyes. Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the place of Andy Warhol’s birth, The Andy Warhol Museum holds the largest collection of Warhol’s artworks and archival materials. Empire, an eight-hour long “portrait” of the famed Empire State Building as filmed from a static position in an adjacent building, will be on view, along with several of the artist’s Screen Tests. Rounding out the exhibition are photographs and early films, from a time when Warhol was experimenting with the medium. Subjects include Muhammad Ali, Sitting Bull, dollar signs (what could be more American?), and one of the most iconic of Michiganders, Gerald Ford. The exhibition also includes paintings and prints which utilize the silkscreen technique that Warhol adopted a year later, in 1963, and with which he is most associated. Created in 1962, the painting is composed of neat rows of the company’s iconic glass bottles, reminiscent of a supermarket display, save for the irregularity of the individually hand-stamped bottles.

One of Warhol’s most important early paintings, Green Coca-Cola Bottles, is featured on loan from the Whitney Museum of American Art. Organized by GRAM, this unique exhibition showcases Warhol’s vision and celebration of America by bringing together paintings, prints, photographs, and films that create a handbook of American cultural icons. From his early days as a commercial illustrator, Warhol adopted the look, language, and techniques of advertisements for his art, fusing his personal artistic expression with images from popular culture and mechanical processes. Warhol’s images of Campbell’s soup cans, Coca-Cola bottles, Marilyn Monroe, and Elizabeth Taylor have themselves become defining images of American culture. In May, Christine conducted a Crochet Reef workshop to inaugurate the creation of a local Pittsburgh Reef.Warhol mined mass culture for his subjects and images, tapping into America’s moods, values, and obsessions – in effect turning a mirror on our popular culture. On the exhibition opening night Margaret gave a talk about the Crochet Reef project and the devastation of marine life by global warming.

#ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM ART PLUS#

The IFF exhibit, designed and curated by Margaret Wertheim and Christine Wertheim, comprised a Crochet Coral and Anemone Garden featuring a sea slug by Marianne Midelburg, kelps by Barbara Wertheim, and shell forms by Sarah Simons plus a Branched Anemone Garden, with contributions from Shari Porter, Helen Bernasconi, Lynn Latt, and Allie Gerlach and a Kelp Garden, with contributions from Sarah Simons and Karen Frazer. The exhibition was timed to coincide with the centenary of the birth of Pittsburgh native Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, the book that launched the modern environmental movement. In keeping with international developments and tendencies in the art world, the ALBERTINA Museums collection of printed graphics reflects important. Twelve artists and art collectives were invited to contribute to the show, which also included a gallery displaying Warhol’s famous Disaster paintings and his Endangered Species prints.

Three sub-reefs of the Crochet Reef were on display at the Andy Warhol Museum as part of the exhibition 6 Billion Perps Held Hostage: Artists Address Global Warming.Ĭurated by Warhol Museum archivist Matt Wrbican, 6 Billion Perps… was one of the first major gallery shows to address the topic of global warming. A new 350,000 partnership between Citizens Financial Group and the Andy Warhol Museum has already seen new art pop up on the North Shore.

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