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Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Exhibitions

Youth Art Exhibition: Stay Woke
March 16 – March 23, 2018

To “stay woke” is to be continually aware of the issues concerning social justice. The Warhol’s Youth Arts Council chose this expression as the theme for the museum’s Youth Art Exhibition, presented in conjunction with Youth Invasion 2018. A call for youth artists asked for work created in response to the current political climate, social justice issues, and activism from their point of view. The results of these efforts spanned a range of schools, age groups, backgrounds and perspectives.

Adman: Warhol Before Pop
April 27 – September 2, 2018

With the backdrop of 1950s New York and its burgeoning advertising industry, Adman: Warhol Before Pop focuses on the formative years of one of the 20th century’s most influential artists. It provides surprising insights into the beginning of Andy Warhol’s career, from his award-winning work as a commercial illustrator through to his first, little-known gallery exhibitions of drawings and artist books. With over 300 objects – from rare drawings and photographs to vintage advertisements, artist books and recreated department store window displays – many on public display for the first time, Adman provides a comprehensive look at Warhol’s first decade in New York.

Children, shoes, album covers, and women’s fashions, dominate this nascent period of commissioned commercial work and artistic projects. But intimate drawings of young men, archival material from a world tour through Europe and southeast Asia, and drawings produced with his mother, present the complexities of Warhol’s personal journey for success at the start of his career. Foremost to the thesis of this exhibition, Adman lays bare the visual and aesthetic foundation, one dependent on a commercial sensibility, that influenced Warhol’s entire artistic career.

This exhibition is a collaboration between The Andy Warhol Museum and Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney and was curated by Nicholas Chambers, senior curator, modern and contemporary international art at Art Gallery NSW. The exhibition at The Warhol is organized by Jessica Beck, The Warhol’s Milton Fine curator of art.

Programs

Sound Series: Mary Halvorson’s Code Girl
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

Co-presented with City of Asylum
The Warhol welcomes Code Girl, the latest project of guitarist and composer Mary Halvorson, and her first project for which she has composed both lyric and music. The band has been described as “…a bold experiment in song form” by The New York Times. Deftly interpreted by Amirtha Kidambi (vocals), Ambrose Akinmusire (trumpet), Michael Formanek (bass) and Tomas Fujiwara (drums), the music synthesizes influences of jazz, folk and improvisation to create an original take on songwriting.
Free parking in The Warhol lot.
Tickets $20/$15 members & students; visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Sound Series: Cornelius
Saturday, March 10, 2018
8 p.m.
Carnegie Lecture Hall (Oakland)

Co-presented with Carnegie Museum of Art and STRANGEWAYS
The Warhol welcomes Cornelius (aka Japanese multi-instrumentalist Keigo Oyamada) to the Carnegie Lecture Hall. Beginning with his 1997 release Fantasma on Matador Records, Cornelius (the name is an homage to the Planet of the Apes) gained much critical praise as the “modern day Brian Wilson” for his lush orchestral/pop arrangements and quickly became an in-demand producer working with artists such as Beck, Bloc Party, and MGMT. Oyamada’s forays into scoring films include Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and the anime mega-film Ghost in the Shell Arise, as well as being a key performer in Yoko Ono’s reformed Plastic Ono Band.
Tickets $25/$20 members & students; visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Sound Series: Live! On Stage Jonathan Richman, featuring Tommy Larkins on the Drums!
Sunday, March 11, 2018
8 p.m.
The Warhol entrance space

The Warhol welcomes back the highly influential singer-songwriter, Jonathan Richman, who has been performing consistently over the last 30 years, beginning with his pioneering band, the Modern Lovers, in the early 1970s. The band’s minimalist approach and forthright songs were influenced by The Velvet Underground, and are often referred to as “protopunk” and credited for laying the groundwork for punk and new wave.
Please note that this performance is standing room only.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Free parking available in The Warhol lot.
Tickets $15/$12 members & students; visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Youth Invasion 2018: Stay Woke
Friday, March 16, 2018
5–10 p.m.

The Warhol is excited to present its annual Youth Invasion! This program features teens’ unique take on Andy Warhol’s artwork, with their points of view, ideas, and creative expressions energizing the entire museum. The event highlights youth performers in the museum’s entrance space, theater, and galleries, as well as presents an exhibition of youth artwork.
Free with museum admission

Sound Series: counter)induction
Saturday, March 17, 2018
8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

Co-presented by the Music on the Edge series of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Music
The groundbreaking NYC ensemble performs Elena Mendoza’s Nebelsplitter, Douglas Boyce’s Etude, Kyle Bartlett’s Twitch, Mario Davidovsky’s Quartetto #3, and Gabriel Erkoreka’s Rondo.

Music on the Edge is generously supported by the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Pitt Arts, the Bessie Pearl Snyder Music Legacy Fund, the Alice M. Ditson Foundation, the Amphion Foundation, Inc., The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Heinz Endowments, and the Opportunity Fund.
Tickets $15/$10 students and seniors in advance, $20/$15 students and seniors at the door; visit warhol.org

Half-Pint Prints
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
10 a.m.–12 p.m.
The Factory

Families work with The Warhol’s artist educators to create silkscreen prints during this drop-in silkscreen printing activity for children ages 1 to 4 years old.
Free with museum admission

Sound Series: The Low Anthem
Friday, March 23, 2018
8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

The Warhol welcomes The Low Anthem from Providence, RI to the museum’s intimate theater, on a tour supporting their fifth studio album. Coming off a recent tour with Lucinda Williams, the band continues to hone their handmade aesthetic and warmly crafted songs, often involving non-traditional instruments. The band were the recipients of Mojo Magazine’s Breakthrough Artist of the Year Award in 2010 and have toured extensively throughout the US, UK, and Europe.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets $15/$12 members & students; visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Sensory-Friendly Workshop for Teens & Young Adults
Saturday, March 24, 2018
9–10:30 a.m.
The Warhol entrance space

Join us for this inclusive 90-minute workshop for teens and young adults (ages 13 – 21) which explores Warhol’s fascination with celebrity. Make your own artwork utilizing Warhol’s techniques while the museum is closed to the general public. Attendance is limited to 15 people. Materials and an orientation video will be supplied prior to the event and participants will have the chance to discuss any other accommodations needed.
Free; registration is required; visit warhol.org

2018 Spring Break Free Days
March 28, 29, 30, 2018

The Jack Buncher Foundation is sponsoring three Free Days at The Warhol during Pittsburgh Public School’s Spring Break. Visitors will be able to explore exhibitions of Andy Warhol’s inspiring and influential work and join artist educators in The Factory, the museum’s art studio, to learn about some of Andy Warhol’s signature art-making techniques.

Dandy Andy: Warhol’s Queer History
Saturday, March 31, 2018
3 p.m.

Join artist educators for Dandy Andy, a monthly tour that focuses on Warhol’s queer history. While his sexuality is frequently suppressed or debated, Warhol was a gay man who had several partners throughout his life. Warhol’s boyfriends, including Edward Wallowitch, John Giorno, and Jed Johnson, were also his colleagues and collaborators, helping to shape and define his career as an artist. This tour traces Warhol’s romantic relationships and queer identity against the backdrop of the historical gay rights movement in the United States. Tours meet on the museum’s seventh floor.
Free with museum admission

Special Hours
Friday, April 6, 2018
5-10 p.m.

Please note, we will be closed from 5-10 p.m.

Sound Series: Fatoumata Diawara
Friday, April 13, 2018
8 p.m.
Carnegie Lecture Hall (Oakland)

Co-presented with Carnegie Nexus as part of its 2018 event series, Becoming Migrant… what moves you? and PANDEMIC
The Warhol welcomes singer/songwriter, Fatoumata Diawara (aka Fatou), who is originally from Mali and currently residing in France. Her much anticipated spring 2018 record will follow-up on her critically acclaimed debut album Fatou (2011) on World Circuit/Nonesuch Records, which was the No.1 album on the world music charts for six months in 2011. Fatou has collaborated with a wide array of musicians including Damon Albarn, Toumani Diabaté, Herbie Hancock and John Paul Jones, and she was featured in the recent documentary film, Mali Blues.
Tickets $20/$15 members & students; visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Sound Series: Court-circuit
Saturday, April 14, 2018
8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

Co-presented by the Music on the Edge series of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Music
The highly-regarded French ensemble presents a program featuring David Felder’s Partial (dist)res(s)toration, Philippe Leroux’s Continuo(ns), Christophe Bertrand’a Sanh, and Sean Shepherd’s The birds are nervous, the birds have scattered.
Music on the Edge is generously supported by the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Pitt Arts, the Bessie Pearl Snyder Music Legacy Fund, the Alice M. Ditson Foundation, the Amphion Foundation, Inc., The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Heinz Endowments, and the Opportunity Fund.
Tickets $15/$10 students and seniors in advance, $20/$15 students and seniors at the door; visit warhol.org

Sound Series: Julien Baker
Friday, April 20, 2018
8 p.m.
Carnegie Lecture Hall (Oakland)

The Warhol welcomes Memphis-based singer/songwriter, Julien Baker to the Carnegie Lecture Hall. Her second album, Turn Out the Lights, was released in the fall of 2017 on Matador Records, and has received many accolades, particularly for how directly and boldly it illuminates complex and conflicted issues around drug addiction and growing up gay in a southern Christian family and conservative culture. According to a recent New Yorker review, listening to her music makes you feel like “an interloper, eavesdropping on someone else’s prayers”.
Tickets $20/$15 members & students; visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Andy Warhol’s Business Art with Anthony E. Grudin, Alex J. Taylor, and Blake Gopnik
Saturday, April 28, 2018
2 p.m.
The Warhol theater

In conjunction with the exhibition Adman: Warhol Before Pop, Anthony E. Grudin, assistant professor of art history at The University of Vermont, reads from his 2017 publication Warhol’s Working Class: Pop Art and Egalitarianism, which explores Andy Warhol’s creative engagement with social class. During the 1960s, Warhol’s work appropriated images, techniques, and technologies that have long been described as generically “American” or “middle class.” Alex J. Taylor, assistant professor and academic curator at University of Pittsburgh, will present new research on Warhol’s now iconic canvases of Campbell’s Soup cans and his engagement in the 1960s with corporations, specifically, America’s burgeoning packaged food industry.

Following the reading, Blake Gopnik, Warhol biographer and New York-based art critic, leads a Q&A focusing on the points of intersection between Grudin’s latest book, research, and the themes of the exhibition Adman: Warhol Before Pop.
Free; Registration is suggested; Visit warhol.org

Dandy Andy: Warhol’s Queer History
Saturday, April 28, 2018
3 p.m.

Join artist educators for Dandy Andy, a monthly tour that focuses on Warhol’s queer history. While his sexuality is frequently suppressed or debated, Warhol was a gay man who had several partners throughout his life. Warhol’s boyfriends, including Edward Wallowitch, John Giorno, and Jed Johnson, were also his colleagues and collaborators, helping to shape and define his career as an artist. This tour traces Warhol’s romantic relationships and queer identity against the backdrop of the historical gay rights movement in the United States. Tours meet on the museum’s seventh floor.
Free with museum admission

Teacher Workshop: Adman: Warhol Before Pop
Friday, May 4, 2018
6–9 p.m.

Explore Warhol’s formative years in New York’s burgeoning advertising industry of the 1950s in our exhibition Adman: Warhol Before Pop. Examine how Warhol combined drawing with basic printmaking techniques to create a variety of illustrations along a similar theme. Participants will learn how to use Warhol’s early commercial illustration techniques such as rubber stamping, blotted line, and marbleizing in the classroom to teach students about reproduction, repetition, and making multiples.
Tickets $30 (includes museum admission, materials, private tour of exhibition); visit warhol.org

Sound Series: Imarhan
Sunday, May 6, 2018
8 p.m.
The Warhol entrance space

Co-presented with PANDEMIC
The Warhol welcomes Imarhan from Tamanrasset, Southern Algeria. Imarhan, meaning ‘the ones I care about,’ deftly blend repeating guitar melodies with pan-African rhythms, which draw on the traditional Tuareg music of Southern Sahara, African ballads and modern pop and rock influences. The band’s debut album, Imarhan, is intent on dismantling the ideas western listeners have about popularized Tuareg music. The band’s lead vocalist and guitarist Iyad Moussa Ben Abderahmane (aka Sadam) also performs with the pioneering Tuareg band Tinariwen (who performed at The Warhol in 2014).
Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Free parking available in The Warhol lot.
Tickets $20/$15 members and students; visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Sound Series: Fleet Foxes with special guest Amen Dunes
Thursday, May 17, 2018
8 p.m.
Benedum Center for the Performing Arts (Downtown)

Co-presented with Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and Opus One
The Warhol welcomes Fleet Foxes on a tour supporting their latest record, Crack-Up (Nonesuch Records). It’s the Seattle-based band’s third album, released last summer, after a six-year break since their GRAMMY-nominated record Helplessness Blues (2011). Their self-titled debut in 2008 influenced the indie folk/rock landscape, and garnered much praise and “Best of” list mentions from Rolling Stone and Pitchfork. All songs on Crack-Up were written by Robin Pecknold (guitarist/vocalist) and were co-produced by Pecknold and bandmate and collaborator, Skyler Skjelset. Amen Dunes opens the show.
Tickets $34.50 – $79.50; visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Colorful Horoscopes and Cocktails
Friday, May 18, 2018
6 p.m.
The Warhol entrance space

Co-presented with Journeys of Life
In conjunction with the exhibition Adman: Andy Warhol Before Pop, join us for a coloring party led by artist educators and themed with music, specialty cocktails, and astrology and tarot card readings by Judi Vitale and Angel Lozada, intuitive counselors from Journeys of Life. Sip a cocktail and color shoe, butterfly and cupid drawings just like Warhol did in the 1950s with his friends and fellow artists. Also, enjoy half-price museum admission during Good Fridays and see the special exhibition on the second floor.
Free; Registration is suggested; Visit warhol.org

Half-Pint Prints
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
10 a.m.–12 p.m.
The Factory

Families work with The Warhol’s artist educators to create silkscreen prints during this drop-in silkscreen printing activity for children ages 1 to 4 years old.
Free with museum admission

Dandy Andy: Warhol’s Queer History
Saturday, May 26, 2018
3 p.m.

Join artist educators for Dandy Andy, a monthly tour that focuses on Warhol’s queer history. While his sexuality is frequently suppressed or debated, Warhol was a gay man who had several partners throughout his life. Warhol’s boyfriends, including Edward Wallowitch, John Giorno, and Jed Johnson, were also his colleagues and collaborators, helping to shape and define his career as an artist. This tour traces Warhol’s romantic relationships and queer identity against the backdrop of the historical gay rights movement in the United States. Tours meet on the museum’s seventh floor.
Free with museum admission

LGBTQ+ Youth Prom
Sunday, May 27, 2018
6–10 p.m.
The Warhol entrance space

The Warhol hosts its fifth annual LGBTQ+ Youth Prom, one of the only LGBTQ+ Youth Proms in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Prom night is often considered a milestone in the life of a young person. LGBTQ+ Youth Prom is an affirming space where every young person can make memories that last a lifetime. This unique annual event draws hundreds of young people from throughout the region for an evening of radical acceptance, fun, and creativity.
Entry to Prom includes a sit-down dinner, dancing, silkscreen printing, and other activities. Prom is open to youth ages 13-20 years old.
Tickets $5/$10 door; visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Sound Series: The Magnetic Fields: 50 Song Memoir
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
8 p.m.
Carnegie Music Hall (Oakland)

Co-presented with WYEP
The Warhol is thrilled to welcome back The Magnetic Fields to Pittsburgh, on their three-city limited 50 Song Memoir tour, which chronicles the 50 years of songwriter Stephin Merritt’s life with one song per year. The show is performed over two nights (songs 1–25 on night one, songs 26–50 on night two). The band is led by Stephin Merritt, who is widely considered one of the most talented songwriters of this generation. Beyond writing and recording numerous albums, Merritt has also written songs for the books of Lemony Snicket, composed music for stage adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline, and was the subject of the feature documentary Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and The Magnetic Fields.
Tickets $40/$35 members one night, $70/$60 members both nights; visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Dandy Andy: Warhol’s Queer History
Saturday, June 30, 2018
3 p.m.

Join artist educators for Dandy Andy, a monthly tour that focuses on Warhol’s queer history. While his sexuality is frequently suppressed or debated, Warhol was a gay man who had several partners throughout his life. Warhol’s boyfriends, including Edward Wallowitch, John Giorno, and Jed Johnson, were also his colleagues and collaborators, helping to shape and define his career as an artist. This tour traces Warhol’s romantic relationships and queer identity against the backdrop of the historical gay rights movement in the United States. Tours meet on the museum’s seventh floor.
Free with museum admission

Window Dressing: An Evening of Fashion from the Eons Archives
Friday, July 13, 2018
7 p.m.
The Warhol entrance space

In conjunction with the exhibition Adman: Warhol Before Pop, The Warhol hosts a night of cocktails, music, and 1950s fashion, carefully curated by Richard Parsakian, the owner of Eons Fashion Antique. Live models showcasing items from Parsakian’s archive will bring to life works from Adman.

The cash bar will feature Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails (LUPEC) crafted drinks inspired by Andy Warhol’s mother, Julia Warhola. Fifties cocktail attire is encouraged.
Free; Registration is suggested; Visit warhol.org

The Warhol receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; and The Heinz Endowments. Further support is provided by the Allegheny Regional Asset District.

The Andy Warhol Museum

Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the place of Andy Warhol’s birth, The Andy Warhol Museum holds the largest collection of Warhol’s artworks and archival materials and is one of the most comprehensive single-artist museums in the world. The Warhol is one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.

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