“Few American artists are as ever-present and instantly recognizable as Andy Warhol (1928–1987). Through his carefully cultivated persona and willingness to experiment with non-traditional art-making techniques, Warhol understood the growing power of images in contemporary life and helped to expand the role of the artist… Read More
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The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh holds the largest collection of Warhol’s artworks and archival materials, opened in 1994
“Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola on August 6, 1928, in a two-room apartment at 73 Orr Street in a working-class neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) from 1945 to 1949, and began his career in New… Read More
Andy Warhol’s Newly-Discovered Experiments Created on an Amiga Computer in 1985 at The Andy Warhol Museum
“Warhol’s Amiga experiments were the result of a commission by Commodore International to demonstrate the computer’s graphic arts capabilities. They vary from doodles and camera shots of a desktop, to experimenting with Warhol’s classic images of a banana, Marilyn Monroe, Campbell’s soup, and portraits. One… Read More
Nature Pops! at Wave Hill, Glyndor Gallery, July 12 – September 5, 2016
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “A half-century after the emergence of Pop art as a revolutionary response to new norms of consumerism, this exhibition brings together work by artists who recalibrate this movement in contemporary terms. Continuing to reevaluate popular culture—particularly technology’s increasing mediation of our… Read More
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