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OTTAWA, Feb. 27, 2013 /CNW/ - Sleep (1965), an exceptionally rare serigraph by Andy Warhol, one of the late-twentieth century's most celebrated artists, is on view for the very first time at the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) until May 1(st) 2013. The print, given to the NGC in 2010 by Marla and Larry Wasser from Toronto, immortalizes a member of Warhol's glamorous entourage, often known simply as "Warhol superstars." The work's image is taken from Warhol's earlier experimental...
NEW YORK, May 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Miami-based art publishers KIWI Arts Group today announced that Eric C. Shiner, director of The Andy Warhol Museum, will participate in a May 5th panel entitled "Telling Tales: Warhol's Friends Tell it Like it Was," along with photographer William John Kennedy and Warhol cohorts Ultra Violet and Taylor Mead. Celebrating the official presentation and addition of 100 photographs by William John Kennedy to The Warhol's permanent collection, the...
EMERYVILLE, Calif., Feb. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Art.com, Inc., the world's leading online specialty retailer of wall art, today introduced a new curated collection of photographs taken by Andy Warhol, published by McGaw Graphics, Inc. through its license with The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. The photographs are available as posters, including giclee reproductions, and show a range of subjects captured by Warhol throughout his extraordinary life. Warhol said,...
NEW YORK, July 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- To coincide with Andy Warhol's birthday (August 6th), Legacy Recordings will release the most ambitious multi-artist, multimedia project upon which it has ever embarked. 15 MINUTES: HOMAGE TO ANDY WARHOL, created with the full approval of The Andy Warhol Foundation For The Visual Arts, is headlined by Columbia Records artists Bob Dylan and Patti Smith, and 16 other world-renowned fine artists, poets, painters, photographers, actors, and musicians....
By Charles Darwent A revealing exhibition shares the cobbled-together feel of Warhol's films - and their sense of futility Visual Art Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms Hayward Gallery LONDON I'm sure there must be a harder film to watch than Andy Warhol's Mrs Warhol, although I can't instantly think what it might be. Made in 1966, the work - at an hour and seven minutes, pretty well feature-length - shows the artist's 73-year-old mother in the dank basement she occupied in her son's...
A CULT actress featured in Lou Reed's song Walk On The Wild Side was in Liverpool today to celebrate an exhibition of portraits of herself. Transsexual star Holly Woodlawn was making a special guest appearance at the Contemporary Urban Centre in Greenland Street tonight. The evening will coincide with the exhibition of intimate and revealing paintings of Holly by award-winning artist Sadie Lee. The 61-year-old, who was the inspiration for American rock singer Reed's classic lyrics,...
