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Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Exhibitions

Adman: Warhol Before Pop
Through 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.

Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby
October 13, 2018 – March 17, 2019

Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby will mark the first museum solo exhibition of Devan Shimoyama, Philadelphia-born painter and professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Spanning his burgeoning career, this exhibition includes painting, photography and sculpture, and a series of new works that will be on view for the first time. In figurative painting and self-portraiture, Shimoyama creates vulnerable yet resilient depictions of African American boyhood and masculinity. His work challenges cliché with daring and personal representations of the complexities of race and sexuality. In his recent barbershop paintings, Shimoyama transforms the hyper-masculine social space into queer fantasy where feminine glamour and fashion take over, and tender depictions of boys don floral capes and glitter-encrusted hair.

Shimoyama creates two distinct worlds—one an enchanted paradise, the other a queer imagining of the African American barbershop. Celebrated for fraternity and community, Shimoyama presents the barbershop as a space where young men and boys can feel shamed and vulnerable. In sculpture, he creates objects of mourning for Trayvon Martin and Tamir Rice, both examples of the aggressive targeting of African American youth as fearful or threatening. While canvases feel joyful and celebratory, they also present commentary on pain and sorrow. Teardrops lurk in the background of his landscapes or stream down the faces of his figures as a reminder of the racial injustices at work in contemporary society. Shimoyama presents a world where race, sexuality, and identity can operate from a point of freedom generated by inner strength.

This exhibition makes a unique connection to The Andy Warhol Museum’s permanent collection and brings to light contemporary insight into one of Warhol’s largest and yet most overlooked painting commissions, the Ladies and Gentlemen series of 1974-75. Visitors will find Shimoyama’s work in dialog with Warhol’s portraits of drag queens on the fourth floor of the museum’s permanent collection. Shimoyama’s confident and daring depictions of sexuality, race and queer performance help reclaim the agency and visibility that Warhol’s models have been denied and bring these paintings out from the shadows.

Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby is curated by Jessica Beck, The Milton Fine Curator of Art at The Andy Warhol Museum.

The exhibition will be accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with essays by Jessica Beck, Alex Fialho, and Rickey Laurentiis and interview by Emily Colucci with the artist.

Generous support of Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby is provided by the Quentin and Evelyn T. Cunningham Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Fine Foundation, Arts, Equity, & Education Fund, Karen and Jim Johnson, De Buck Gallery, Jim Spencer and Michael Lin, with additional support from Stacy and Samuel Freeman, V. Joy Simmons M.D., Mrs. Ellen and Mr. Jack Kessler, The Plastino Family Charitable Fund, and Mr. Howard C. Eglit.

Programs

Andy’s 90th Birthday Party
Saturday, August 4, 2018
10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Celebrate the 90th anniversary of Andy Warhol’s birth with family-friendly activities throughout the museum.
Activities include:
10 a.m.–5 p.m. – Artmaking activities in The Factory.
11 a.m. – Gallery talk on the seventh floor with Patrick Moore, director of The Warhol.
12–4 p.m. – Cupcakes and a fun photobooth in the entrance space.
1 p.m. – Silkscreen demonstration in the entrance space.
3 p.m. – Gallery talk on the seventh floor with Jose Carlos Diaz, chief curator of The Warhol.
5 p.m. – Figments: Conversations with Andy art project at Andy Warhol’s grave in St. John Byzantine Cemetery, 1066 Connor Road, Bethel Park, PA. Activities include a large Andy Warhol weather balloon launch, birthday cake, performances, and music.
Free with museum admission

Virtual Senior Academy: Adman: Warhol Before Pop
Friday, August 10, 2018
12–1 p.m.
virtualsenioracademy.org

The Andy Warhol Museum is offering online courses through the Virtual Senior Academy, a learning center for senior citizens in the Pittsburgh area. This course focuses on our current exhibition, Adman: Warhol Before Pop. The exhibition 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 artists books. Through this course, seniors will get a comprehensive look at Warhol’s first decade in New York.
Visit virtualsenioracademy.org, sign up, browse for the courses taught by The Warhol and register.
Free to all VSA participants (registration is free)

SOLD OUT
Half-Pint Prints
Wednesday, August 15, 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; Registration is required; Visit warhol.org

Virtual Senior Academy: Adman: Warhol Before Pop
Friday, August 24, 2018
12–1 p.m.
virtualsenioracademy.org

The Andy Warhol Museum is offering online courses through the Virtual Senior Academy, a learning center for senior citizens in the Pittsburgh area. This course focuses on our current exhibition, Adman: Warhol Before Pop. The exhibition 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 artists books. Through this course, seniors will get a comprehensive look at Warhol’s first decade in New York.
Visit virtualsenioracademy.org, sign up, browse for the courses taught by The Warhol and register.
Free to all VSA participants (registration is free)

Dandy Andy: Warhol’s Queer History Tour
Saturday, August 25, 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

Sound Series: Waxahatchee, with special guests Anna St. Louis and Night Shop
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
8 p.m.
The Warhol entrance space

Co-presented with Mr. Smalls Presents and WYEP
The Warhol welcomes Waxahatchee (Katie Crutchfield) on tour supporting her fourth album Out in the Storm, and her second release with Merge Records. The records have received many accolades and has been referred to as Crutchfield’s most self-reflective, raw and intimate record. She describes it herself as “…a very honest record about a time in which I was not honest with myself”. The album was produced by John Agnello (Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth) and is noted for its densely textured, guitar-driven sound. Both Night Shop (Justin Sullivan) and Anna St. Louis open the evening with solo sets.
Please note that this performance is standing room only.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Free parking available in The Warhol lot.
Tickets $18/$15 members and students; Visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

TQ Live!
Friday, September 14, 2018
8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

TQ Live! presents a queer evening of dazzling performance, dance, poetry, comedy, resplendent fantasies, music, and more. This fifth annual performance series features artists and performers from the many LGBTQIA communities in the Pittsburgh region and is produced by Scott Andrew, Joseph Hall, and Suzie Silver. Hosted by Joseph Hall, this year’s line-up includes performances by Mrs. Kasha Davis of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Vanessa German, Rickey Laurentiis, Ryan M. McKelvey, MICHIYAYA Dance, Theodore Rexx, theatriQ and a video work by Atom Atkinson + Scott Andrew.  This project is supported in part by the Carnegie Mellon University School of Art, the Center for the Arts in Society, and the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and the Sylvia and David Steiner Speaker Series.
Please note this performance contains adult subject matter and strong language.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets $12/$8 members and students; Visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Sound Series: Rob Mazurek’s Farnsworth Scores
Thursday, September 20, 2018
7 p.m.
Carnegie Museum of Art theater (Oakland)

Co-presented by The Heinz Architectural Center at Carnegie Museum of Art
Join us for a unique evening of experimental sound composition inspired by mid-century modern architecture, featuring composer, cornetist, and improviser, Rob Mazurek. Through a commission from the Graham Foundation, Mazurek has composed The Farnsworth Scores as an experimental film and musical composition in collaboration with filmmaker Lee Anne Schmitt, intended to capture the interaction between humans, nature, and architecture at Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Farnsworth House.

Mazurek has previously performed as part of The Warhol’s Sound Series with his ensembles São Paulo Underground and Black Cube SP, and also leads and composes for other ongoing ensembles, including Exploding Star Orchestra, Chicago Underground Duo, and  Pharoah & The Underground (featuring Pharoah Sanders).
Production of The Farnsworth Scores was supported by a generous grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
Doors open at 6 p.m.
Tickets $15/$12 members and students; Visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Sensory-Friendly Event for Teens and Young Adults: Immigration
Saturday, September 22, 2018
9–10:30 a.m.

This inclusive 90-minute workshop for teens and young adults (ages 13–21) focuses on the theme of immigration in Warhol’s life and work. We will look at the museum’s collection through the lens of Warhol’s experience as a first generation American, and explore these themes while making art in our education studio. Attendance is limited to 20 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

Henry Rollins “Slide Show”
Saturday, September 22, 2018
8 p.m.
Carnegie Lecture Hall (Oakland)

The Warhol welcomes back spoken word artist, musician, actor, author, and iconic cultural gadfly, Henry Rollins. He returns with “Slide Show”, a special performance drawing on his traveling experiences, including the Middle East, Africa, Central Asia, South America, and Antarctica, and his vast archive of photographs. “For many years, I have documented my travels all over the world with a camera. Not always easy but always worth it. Many of the photos have stories behind them. Now and then, I gather several images, show them to an audience and tell those stories.”

Primarily still best known as the lead singer for the intense hardcore Rollins Band and the seminal punk band Black Flag, Rollins has also written more than 20 books, and currently hosts a weekly radio show on L.A.’s renowned NPR affiliate KCRW in addition to writing weekly columns for the LA Weekly and Rolling Stone Australia. He also recently hosted Nat Geo WILD’s three-part series Animal Underworld.
VIP tickets include: Early entry for front and center seating, post-show Meet & Greet, a photograph with Henry Rollins, and commemorative exclusive VIP laminate.
Doors open at 7 p.m.
Tickets $25/$20 students, $150 VIP; Visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Miguel Gutierrez: SADONNA
Friday, September 28, 2018
8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

Co-presented with Carnegie Mellon University School of Art and School of Drama
SADONNA is exactly what it sounds like: sad versions of Madonna songs. In this music project, choreographer Miguel Gutierrez shows just how tiny the spiritual distance is between the international pop superstar, who grew up in Bay City, Michigan and himself, an international experimental itinerant artist who grew up in Colonia, New Jersey. Backed by the SLUTINOS, the Sad Latino Boys Backup Singers, SADONNA ekes out the melancholy cry for help hidden within Madonna’s uplifting lyrics.
Please note this performance contains adult subject matter and strong language.
Tickets $15/$12 members and students; Visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Dandy Andy: Warhol’s Queer History
Saturday, September 29, 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

Sound Series: Essex Green with special guest The Garment District
Thursday, October 11, 2018
8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

Co-presented with WYEP
The Warhol welcomes Essex Green on a tour supporting their latest release, Hardly Electronic, on Merge Records. After a twelve-year break since their last album, Cannibal Sea, the band, comprised of Jeff Baron, Sasha Bell and Chris Ziter, return with their layered vocal harmonies, shimmering guitars and hook-laden organ melodies, culminating in a classic and catchy indie-folk/rock record that explores a range of sonic territory. The Pittsburgh indie pop ensemble, The Garment District, open the evening.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Free parking available in The Warhol lot.
Tickets $15/$12 members and students; Visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

The Black Ecstatic: An Evening of Poetry & Film
Thursday, October 25, 2018
7 p.m.
Frick Fine Arts Building, Room 125 (Oakland)

Co-presented with Center for African American Poetry (CAAPP) at University of Pittsburgh
Three contemporary black poets, Airea D. Matthews, Roger Reeves, and Safiya Sinclair, and filmmaker Jamal T. Lewis will consider how “the ecstatic” functions in their artistic work and personal lives, within the context of the contemporary moment, where attention to black political and social life emphasizes death and unjustifiable violence. The program, which will include poetry performances, a brief film screening, and discussion, is organized and moderated by Rickey Laurentiis, the inaugural Fellow in Creative Writing at Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. This program is presented in conjunction with The Warhol’s Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby exhibition, curated by Jessica Beck, the Milton Fine curator of art at The Warhol.
Free; Registration is suggested; Visit warhol.org

Shop Talk: Kleaver Cruz and Devan Shimoyama discuss Black Joy, Masculinity, and Barbershops
Friday, October 26, 2018
7 p.m.
The Warhol theater

Co-presented with Center for African American Poetry (CAAPP) at University of Pittsburgh
Kleaver Cruz brings The Black Joy Project to Pittsburgh. For one week in October, Cruz will explore black spaces in Pittsburgh, take portraits, and conduct conversations regarding Black joy. As a culmination of his residency, he will speak with artist Devan Shimoyama and community members about navigating black barbershops and the complex experience of being queer in these spaces. The event will be followed by a late-night dance party in the museum entrance space with a local DJ and a live performance by Brooklyn born, Pittsburgh based performer, Brendon Hawkins. This event is organized by Jessica Beck, the Milton Fine curator of art at The Warhol in collaboration with Rickey Laurentiis the inaugural Fellow in Creative Writing at the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics.
Free; Registration is suggested; Visit warhol.org

Dandy Andy: Warhol’s Queer History
Saturday, October 27, 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

Dandy Andy: Warhol’s Queer History
Saturday, November 24, 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

Sensory-Friendly Event for Teens and Young Adults: Portraiture
Saturday, December 1, 2018
9–10:30 a.m.

This inclusive 90-minute workshop for teens and young adults (ages 13–21) focuses on the role of portraiture in Warhol’s artistic practice. We will also connect Warhol’s work with our exhibition, Devan Shimoyama’s Cry, Baby and create our own pop portraits. Attendance is limited to 20 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

Half-Pint Prints
Wednesday, December 12, 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; Registration is required; Visit warhol.org

Rashaad Newsome: Shade Compositions
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
8 p.m.
Carnegie Music Hall (Oakland)

Rashaad Newsome, renowned New York based artist, will make his Pittsburgh debut of Shade Compositions, an ongoing performance project that launched in 2005. Throughout the Fall of 2018, Newsome will be working in Pittsburgh, casting local performers, and staging rehearsals for Shade Compositions, the artist’s critically acclaimed performance. In this performance, Newsome is both conductor, composer and vocal choreographer. Leading an ensemble of locally cast self-identifying black female and femme performers, whose individual voices and gestures are synthesized to form improvisatory orchestral music. Newsome explores the complexities of social power structures and questions of agency. This event is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby.
Free; Registration is suggested; Visit warhol.org

Dandy Andy: Warhol’s Queer History
Saturday, December 29, 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

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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