Andy Warhol €“ From a to B and Back Again

Introduction

Few American artists are as e'er-present and instantly recognizable as Andy Warhol (1928–1987). Through his advisedly cultivated persona and willingness to experiment with not-traditional art-making techniques, Warhol understood the growing ability of images in contemporary life and helped to expand the function of the artist in society. This exhibition—the offset Warhol retrospective organized by a U.S. institution since 1989—reconsiders the piece of work of one of the about inventive, influential, and of import American artists. Edifice on a wealth of new materials, research and scholarship that has emerged since the artist'due south untimely death in 1987, this exhibition reveals new complexities about the Warhol we recall we know, and introduces a Warhol for the 21st century.

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





Events

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  • Sun,
    Mar 31

    Warhol Film Screening—Minimalism and Seriality: Office I

    7 pm

  • Sun,
    Mar 31

    Weekend Early on Admission for Members

    10–10:30 am

  • Sat,
    Mar 30

    Weekend Early Admission for Members

    x–ten:thirty am

  • Thurs,
    Mar 28

    Member Night

    7:30–10 pm

  • Mon,
    Mar 25

    Contemporaries Salon: The Muscle Behind Andy Warhol—From A to B and Dorsum Again

    7–nine:30 pm

  • Sunday,
    Mar 24

    Insider Focus: Making, Breaking, and Remaking Paintings

    12 pm


Sound Guides

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

Hear from a range of contemporary artists, curators, and scholars speaking about 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 Hole-and-corner. After seeing them play ane 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 Factory, providing them with new, louder amplifiers. He too recruited German chanteuse, Nico Päffgen, to serve as the ring's second lead vocalist. Warhol went on to produce and provide comprehend art for the band'due south first album, The Velvet Cloak-and-dagger and Nico (1967), equally well every bit to design the art for their second release, White Low-cal/White Heat (1968). This playlist combines tracks from each of the Velvets' 4 albums, forth with songs from solo releases by Cale, Reed and Nico through 1972.


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In the News

"It explores tensions between conformity and innovation, celebrity and privacy, and examines how Warhol expressed commentary and desire in his art."
PBS News Hour

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

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

"'To humanize Warhol and become people to actually expect at what he made is non as easy as information technology might sound.' Now Ms. De Salvo is tackling that challenge in 'Andy Warhol—From A to B and Dorsum Again,' the first Warhol retrospective organized past a United States museum since 1989."
The New York Times

"His 15 minutes of fame volition never expire. More than than 350 works make up this major retrospective that spans Warhol'due south entire career from illustrator to popular icon."
Los Angeles Times

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

"De Salvo said she believes that the testify volition inspire viewers to look past the persona that the artist cultivated during his lifetime."
ARTnews

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

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

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

"One of its most groundbreaking aspects will exist the concentration on the least-known time of Warhol's life, the 1950s."
W Magazine

"All the possible aspects of his 4-decades-long, multilayered practice, meticulously analyzed and presented."
Widewalls

"Andy is in the air we breathe. Among the most revolutionary artists who e'er lived, Warhol (was) an artist in a country of creative grace feeding on, mirroring, doubling, and actually irresolute 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 one. She looks behind Warhol'south carefully constructed mask to explore how a gay homo raised past Czech immigrants in a Catholic family unit became one of the world'due south most experimental artists."
Artnet

"The wonderful thing about the Whitney show is that it places Warhol's famous moments alongside the moments y'all have likely never seen or heard of… "
The Daily Beast

"Information technology'due south all near Andy!...More than three decades subsequently his decease, Warhol's art continues to draw crowds and remains relevant."
CBS New York

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

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

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

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

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


About the Exhibition

The exhibition positions Warhol's career every bit a continuum, demonstrating that he didn't deadening down after surviving the assassination endeavour that nearly took his life in 1968, but entered into a menses of intense experimentation. The bear witness illuminates the breadth, depth, and interconnectedness of the artist'southward production: from his beginnings as a commercial illustrator in the 1950s, to his iconic Popular masterpieces of the early 1960s, to the experimental piece of work in film and other mediums from the 1960s and 70s, to his innovative use of readymade brainchild and the painterly sublime in the 1980s. His repetitions, distortions, camouflaging, incongruous color, and recycling of his ain imagery challenge our faith in images and the value of cultural icons, anticipating the profound effects and issues of the 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 first time.

The exhibition is organized by Donna De Salvo, Deputy Manager for International Initiatives and Senior Curator, with Christie Mitchell, senior curatorial assistant, and Mark Loiacono, curatorial research acquaintance.

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

Leadership support of Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again is provided by Kenneth C. Griffin.

Bank of America is the National Bout Sponsor

In New York, exhibition is also sponsored by


Generous support is provided by Neil Thou. Bluhm and Larry Gagosian.

Major back up is provided past The Brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston; Foundation 14; Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill; The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; the Philip and Janice Levin Foundation; The Thompson Family Foundation, Inc.; and the Whitney's National Committee.

Significant support is provided by the Blavatnik Family 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 support is provided past Pecker 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 past

Related Exhibition

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


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