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Andy Warhol €“ From a to B and Back Again the Art Institute of Chicago November 28

Introduction

Few American artists are as always-nowadays and instantly recognizable every bit Andy Warhol (1928–1987). Through his advisedly cultivated persona and willingness to experiment with non-traditional art-making techniques, Warhol understood the growing ability of images in contemporary life and helped to expand the role of the artist in gild. This exhibition—the starting time Warhol retrospective organized by a U.Southward. institution since 1989—reconsiders the work of one of the most inventive, influential, and of import American artists. Building on a wealth of new materials, inquiry and scholarship that has emerged since the artist'south untimely death in 1987, this exhibition reveals new complexities near the Warhol we think we know, and introduces a Warhol for the 21st century.

Explore the artworks below to learn more than about the life and work of Andy Warhol.

Events

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  • Lord's day,
    Mar 31

    Warhol Film Screening—Minimalism and Seriality: Part I

    7 pm

  • Sun,
    Mar 31

    Weekend Early on Admission for Members

    10–10:30 am

  • Saturday,
    Mar 30

    Weekend Early Admission for Members

    10–10:30 am

  • Thurs,
    Mar 28

    Fellow member Night

    7:30–ten pm

  • Mon,
    Mar 25

    Contemporaries Salon: The Musculus Behind Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Once again

    7–9:30 pm

  • Sun,
    Mar 24

    Insider Focus: Making, Breaking, and Remaking Paintings

    12 pm

Audio Guides

"Andy's piece of work really goes to the heart of the matter of what it means to be a human existence and what our potential is . . . It'due south the existent deal."—Jeff Koons

Hear from a range of gimmicky artists, curators, and scholars speaking nigh iconic works on view. Contributors include Jeff Koons, Hank Willis Thomas, Deborah Kass, Peter Halley, Sasha Wortzel, and Richard Meyer.

Playlist

In Feb 1966, Warhol appear that he was sponsoring a band: the Velvet Hugger-mugger. After seeing them play one of their first shows, Warhol asked the Velvets—Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, and Maureen "Moe" Tucker—to provide musical accompaniment for a screening of his films. "We were doing what he was doing," Reed recalls, "except we were using music and he was doing it with lights." Warhol later invited the band to rehearse at the Manufactory, providing them with new, louder amplifiers. He also recruited German language chanteuse, Nico Päffgen, to serve every bit the band's second lead vocalist. Warhol went on to produce and provide cover art for the band'southward first album, The Velvet Hush-hush and Nico (1967), as well as to pattern the art for their second release, White Light/White Estrus (1968). This playlist combines tracks from each of the Velvets' iv albums, forth with songs from solo releases by Cale, Reed and Nico through 1972.

Shop the Exhibition

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In the News

"It explores tensions betwixt conformity and innovation, glory and privacy, and examines how Warhol expressed commentary and desire in his fine art."
—PBS News Hr

"A sweeping retrospective shows a personal side of the Popular master — his hopes, fears, organized religion — and reasserts his ability for a new generation."
—The New York Times

"Information technology can be guaranteed that 'From A to B and Back Again' will prove an inescapable cultural outcome. Information technology also promises an equal intellectual bonanza."
—Artforum

"'To humanize Warhol and get people to really wait at what he made is not every bit like shooting fish in a barrel as it might sound.' Now Ms. De Salvo is tackling that claiming in 'Andy Warhol—From A to B and Dorsum Again,' the starting time Warhol retrospective organized by a United States museum since 1989."
—The New York Times

"His fifteen minutes of fame will never expire. More than 350 works brand up this major retrospective that spans Warhol'south entire career from illustrator to pop icon."
—Los Angeles Times

"In November, the Whitney Museum of American Art will feature the first U.S. retrospective of Andy Warhol's art in some iii decades, in an exhibition that will occupy a great deal of the institution's eight-story, High Line-adjacent building."
—The New Yorker

"De Salvo said she believes that the show will inspire viewers to expect past the persona that the artist cultivated during his lifetime."
—ARTnews

"What more is there to learn virtually this deeply superficial artist? The Whitney's vivid curator Donna De Salvo answers the question with the largest Warhol survey ever, featuring more than three hundred and fifty works."
—The New Yorker

"Titled 'Andy Warhol — From A to B and Back Once again,' it stars a total cross-department of his epochal creations."
—The New York Times

"The heart of Warhol's idea — that by playing the role of businessman, an artist could plough himself into the latest, living example of a commodification he believed none of us can avoid — was perchance every bit revolutionary in its fourth dimension as Marcel Duchamp presenting a humble urinal as sculpture had been in 1917."
—The New York Times

"1 of its most groundbreaking aspects will be the concentration on the least-known fourth dimension of Warhol's life, the 1950s."
—W Magazine

"All the possible aspects of his four-decades-long, multilayered practice, meticulously analyzed and presented."
—Widewalls

"Andy is in the air nosotros breathe. Amid the near revolutionary artists who ever lived, Warhol (was) an artist in a state of creative grace feeding on, mirroring, doubling, and actually changing the culture he pictured. The Whitney'due south new retrospective…isn't to be missed."
—New York Magazine

"A remarkably handsome and topical show."
—WNYC

"De Salvo aims to offer a unique perspective on his work—a personal 1. She looks behind Warhol'southward carefully constructed mask to explore how a gay man raised by Czech immigrants in a Catholic family became one of the earth's almost experimental artists."
—Artnet

"The wonderful affair most the Whitney show is that it places Warhol'due south famous moments alongside the moments you have probable never seen or heard of… "
—The Daily Animal

"It's all near Andy!...More than three decades after his death, Warhol'southward art continues to draw crowds and remains relevant."
—CBS New York

"There are plenty of hits— mediated and sequential images, experiments with brainchild, and Popism on full display."
—Cultured

"The Best Office of the Whitney Warhol Retrospective Might Be His Pre-Fame Drawings of Shoes and Boys."
—Vulture

"The Whitney's celebrated Warhol extravaganza explores bottom-known elements of the Pop artist'south oeuvre, including his homoerotic drawings and portraits of men in elevate from the 1960s."
—Artnet

"Warhol didn't make a mark on American culture. He became the musical instrument with which American civilization designated itself."
—The New Yorker

"Warhol—a pale, oracular ghost—looms as a spiritual father of this media-saturated age."
—The Economist

Near the Exhibition

The exhibition positions Warhol's career every bit a continuum, demonstrating that he didn't boring downward afterward surviving the bump-off attempt that well-nigh took his life in 1968, just entered into a menstruum of intense experimentation. The show illuminates the latitude, depth, and interconnectedness of the creative person'south production: from his beginnings as a commercial illustrator in the 1950s, to his iconic Pop masterpieces of the early 1960s, to the experimental piece of work in film and other mediums from the 1960s and 70s, to his innovative utilise of readymade brainchild and the painterly sublime in the 1980s. His repetitions, distortions, camouflaging, incongruous color, and recycling of his own imagery challenge our religion in images and the value of cultural icons, anticipating the profound furnishings and issues of the electric current digital age.

This is the largest monographic exhibition to date at the Whitney's new location, with more than 350 works of art, many assembled together for the offset time.

The exhibition is organized by Donna De Salvo, Deputy Director for International Initiatives and Senior Curator, with Christie Mitchell, senior curatorial assistant, and Marking Loiacono, curatorial inquiry associate.

The accompanying film program is co-organized with the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, and curated by Claire Thousand. Henry, assistant curator.

Leadership back up of Andy Warhol—From A to B and Dorsum Again is provided by Kenneth C. Griffin.

Banking company of America is the National Tour Sponsor

In New York, exhibition is also sponsored by


Generous back up is provided past Neil One thousand. Bluhm and Larry Gagosian.

Major back up is provided by The Chocolate-brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston; Foundation 14; Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Colina; The Horace Westward. Goldsmith Foundation; the Philip and Janice Levin Foundation; The Thompson Family Foundation, Inc.; and the Whitney'southward National Committee.

Significant back up is provided by the Blavatnik Family unit Foundation, Lise and Michael Evans, Susan and John Hess, Allison and Warren Kanders, Ashley Leeds and Christopher Harland, the National Endowment for the Arts, Brooke and Daniel Neidich, Per Skarstedt, and anonymous donors.

Additional back up is provided by Bill and Maria Bell, Kemal Has Cingillioglu, Jeffrey Deitch, Andrew J. and Christine C. Hall, Constance and David Littman, the Mugrabi Collection, John and Amy Phelan, Louise and Leonard Riggio, Norman and Melissa Selby, Paul and Gayle Stoffel, Mathew and Ann Wolf, and Sophocles and Silvia Zoullas.

New York Magazine is the exclusive media sponsor.

This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

Support for the catalogue is provided by Acquavella Galleries and the Paul J. Schupf Lifetime Trust.

The opening dinner is sponsored by

Related Exhibition

Also open from October 26–December 15, 2018, the Dia Art Foundation presents Andy Warhol, Shadows at 205 West 39th Street, a streetfront infinite in Calvin Klein, Inc.'s headquarters. The installation surrounds the viewer with a series of canvases, presented edge-to-border effectually the perimeter of the room, in conformity with Warhol's original vision. Following its New York presentation, the work reopens as a long-term installation at Dia:Buoy in 2019.

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Source: https://whitney.org/exhibitions/andy-warhol