"Regarding Warhol Sixty Artists, Fifty Years" Exhibition
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Commentators on contemporary art have often claimed that Warhol is the most influential artist of the last half-century. No exhibition, however, has truly examined that assertion in depth. The exhibition is built around five broad themes ranging from vernacular subject matter to celebrity portraiture to issues of sexual identity. The presentation will include approximately 150 works of art in a broad range of media across five decades. A quarter of the selected works are by Warhol, and they will be juxtaposed with key examples by some sixty leading contemporary artists. The show will be arranged as a series of thematic vignettes, not simply to demonstrate Warhol's overt influence, but to suggest how artists both worked in parallel modes and developed his model in dynamic new directions.
[Image: Andy Warhol (American, 1928–1987). "Self-Portrait" (1967) Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas; 72 x 72 in. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Friends of Modern Art Fund, AW.0.1 and AW.0.1a.]
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Schedule
from September 18, 2012 to December 31, 2012
Reviews
As the Met’s Warhol retrospective refocuses attention on the Pop artist’s vast influence, shows by Desi Santiago and Skylar Fein point to new horizons in the future of Pop.