Andy Warhol Museum announces Andy Warhol exhibition traveling throughout Asia

PITTSBURGH, PA.- The Andy Warhol Museum announced its latest traveling exhibition Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal, opening March 17, 2012 at the ArtScience Museum, Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal is the largest retrospective of Warhol’s artwork to travel to Asia, spanning his career from the 1940s to 1980s. The exhibition is arranged by decade and features more than 300 paintings, photographs, screen prints, drawings, and sculptures. Iconic works in the exhibition include Jackie (1964), Marilyn Monroe (1967), [...]

The Word of God by Jeffrey Vallance at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH, PA.- The Andy Warhol Museum announces its latest special exhibition, The Word of God: Jeffrey Vallance. Jeffrey Vallance is a California artist who creates objects, installations, performance and curatorial works. Vallance’s process is based in his interactions with institutions, communities, politicians, religions, museums and pop-culture figures. Some of his past projects have included traveling throughout Polynesia in search of the origin of the myth of Tiki; creating a Richard Nixon Museum; and traveling to the Vatican, Turin, and Milan, Italy to [...]

Artist Jeanette Doyle performs a dematerialized act at The Warhol Museum

PITTSBURGH, PA.- The Andy Warhol Museum announces its latest special exhibition, Jeanette Doyle: Fifteen Days, A Prequel to Factory Direct: Pittsburgh. Fifteen Days is a preview of Doyle’s work for Factory Direct: Pittsburgh, an upcoming exhibition at The Warhol opening in June 2012. For a period of fifteen days, artist Jeanette Doyle will perform a dematerialized act at The Warhol Museum. An extension of the performance will be rendered immaterially on The Warhol’s website. The project emerges from a consideration of the [...]

McNay Art Museum announces “Andy Warhol: Fame and Misfortune” to open in February 2012

SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Drawn from the rich collections of the Andy Warhol Museum in the artist’s hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol: Fame and Misfortune assembles over 150 objects in all media. Organized by the McNay’s Chief Curator and Curator of Art after 1945, René Paul Barilleaux, this exhibition looks simultaneously at Warhol’s lifelong obsession with both celebrity and disaster. Works included in this survey juxtapose icons of popular culture, legendary entertainers, art world luminaries, and world leaders, with images of suicides, [...]

Warhol art app, showcasing the extensive collection of the Warhol Museum

PITTSBURGH, PA.- The Andy Warhol Museum and Toura announce the release of The Warhol Art app to the iTunes App Store and Android Marketplace. The Warhol Art app allows users to examine works of art and related ephemera in The Warhol’s collection with an in-depth view of archival materials, letters, source images, film and video clips, and audio. The Warhol Art app features a behind-thescenes glimpse at over 50 art works spanning Warhol’s career from the 1920s to late 1980s, including the iconic [...]

Andy Warhol Museum opens exhibition by today’s foremost comic book artist: Alex Ross

PITTSBURGH, PA.- The Andy Warhol Museum presents its latest special exhibition, Heroes & Villains: The Comic Book Art of Alex Ross.  Heroes & Villains is the first museum exhibition celebrating the artwork of Alex Ross, today’s foremost comic book artist. Ross, acclaimed for the photorealism of his work is often referred to as “the Norman Rockwell of the comics world.” Heroes & Villains features over 130 works represented as paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculptures from Ross’s personal collection. The pieces range from a crayon drawing of Spider-Man [...]

Andy Warhol’s headline works presented by the National Gallery of Art, Washington

WASHINGTON (AP).- Andy Warhol is known for soup cans and celebrity images, not so much for painting headlines and abstract works. The late pop artist has left much to be discovered in two shows that open Sunday on the National Mall. The National Gallery of Art is opening its first Warhol exhibit with “Warhol: Headlines,” an examination of his use of news headlines throughout his career. At the same time, the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum will feature “Andy Warhol: Shadows,” a 450-foot-long [...]

Andy Warhol Museum Releases The Warhol: D.I.Y. Pop App for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad

PITTSBURGH, PA.- The Andy Warhol Museum announces the release of its new Warhol D.I.Y. Pop app to the App Store. The Warhol D.I.Y. Pop app allows the user to learn about Warhol’s silkscreen process and create a digital silkscreen print, by utilizing the built-in camera or a photo from the device’s library as source material. The user employs Warhol’s famed process step by step to create a personal work of art. The hands-on process includes cropping, exposing, painting, and even pulling the virtual [...]

The Andy Warhol Museum Presents The Word of God(ESS) by Artist Chitra Ganesh

PITTSBURGH, PA.- The Andy Warhol Museum presents its latest special exhibition, The Word of God(ESS): Chitra Ganesh. The exhibition is curated by Tresa Varner, curator of education and interpretation. The Word of God(ESS): Chitra Ganesh is on view through September 4, 2011. Chitra Ganesh’s artwork combines different visual languages, canons and cultures, including comic books, Bollywood cinema and iconic goddesses from Hindu folklore. Ganesh creates cross-cultural narratives about sexuality and power that sit in comic book frames where interior thoughts are revealed in [...]

After Serving as Acting Director, Eric C. Shiner Named Director of the Andy Warhol Museum

PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh today announced that Eric C. Shiner has been named director of The Andy Warhol Museum. Shiner joined the museum in 2008 as the Milton Fine Curator of Art, and he has served as acting director since January 2011. A curator, professor, writer, and translator, Shiner was an adjunct professor at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and in 2007 he curated “Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York” at Japan [...]

Andy Warhol’s Portrait of Debbie Harry, A Highlight of Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Sale

LONDON.- Selected as the cover image for the major survey of Warhol’s portraiture published by Phaidon in 2005, Debbie Harry, from 1980, is one of Warhol’s most accomplished portraits of celebrity. One of only four such portraits of the Blondie star in this rare 42 inches format, two of which are in the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, this pink version has become one of the best recognized images in Warhol’s oeuvre and the definitive portrait of the 1980s style [...]

2011 Pittsburgh Biennial Presents Nine Contemporary Artists with Strong Ties to City

PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museum of Art’s contribution to the multi-venue 2011 Pittsburgh Biennial presents nine contemporary artists with strong ties to Pittsburgh addressing a broad range of subjects that touch on the idea of “work.” The exhibition runs from June 17 to September 18, 2011, in the museum’s Heinz Galleries and is organized by associate curator of contemporary art Dan Byers. The Pittsburgh Biennial at Carnegie Museum of Art feature both established and emerging artists who work in a variety of [...]

Only Canadian Presentation of Major Warhol Exhibition Opens at the Art Gallery of Alberta

EDMONTON.- The Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) kicks of an exciting summer season with the opening of ANDY WARHOL: Manufactured and SARAH FULLER: My Banff on Saturday, May 28. ANDY WARHOL: Manufactured reveals the complex personality of one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, the “father of Pop”, Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928–February 22, 1987). The exhibition explores Warhol’s interest in American consumer culture, mass production, celebrity and the invention of personas and realities, taking visitors beyond [...]

John Warhola, Brother of Artist Andy Warhol and Museum Founder, Dies at Age 85

ROCHESTER, PA (AP).- John Warhola, the older brother who helped raise pop art icon Andy Warhol and later helped establish the Andy Warhol Museum in their native Pittsburgh, has died. He was 85. Warhola died on Christmas Eve after battling pneumonia at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, according to his son, Donald Warhola. The hospital is just a few blocks from the museum. Warhola lived in nearby New Sewickley. In this Aug. 9, 2002 file photo, the family of pop [...]

MoMA Presents Andy Warhol’s Influential Early Film-Based Works on a Large Scale

NEW YORK, NY.- Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures, on view at MoMA from December 19, 2010, to March 21, 2011, focuses on the artist’s cinematic portraits and nonnarrative, silent, and black-and-white films from the mid-1960s. Warhol’s Screen Tests reveal his lifelong fascination with the cult of celebrity, comprising a visual almanac of the 1960s downtown avant-garde scene. Included in the exhibition are such Warhol ―Superstars as Edie Sedgwick, Nico, and Baby Jane Holzer; poet Allen Ginsberg; musician Lou Reed; actor Dennis [...]

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