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Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Exhibitions

Farhad Moshiri: Go West
October 13, 2017 – January 14, 2018

Go West is the first solo museum exhibition of Iranian artist Farhad Moshiri. Encompassing several bodies of work created over decades, this mid-career survey focuses on Moshiri’s varied Pop subject matter, deft use of language, and wide-ranging materials and methods. Moshiri’s interest in Pop art and kitsch resonates throughout his work. Many of his visuals are pulled from cartoons, films, comic strips, children’s books, and advertisements, while phrases appropriated from classical poetry, soap operas, and pop songs blur the lines between art and cliché. By selecting ambiguous source images that reference both American and Iranian popular culture, Moshiri takes a complex look at how we define our own cultural identity. The exhibition is curated by José Carlos Diaz, The Warhol’s chief curator. Farhad Moshiri: Go West is generously supported by The Fine Foundation, Piaget, Galerie Perrotin, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, The Third Line, Dubai, the Soudavar Memorial Foundation, The Farjam Foundation, The Khazaei Foundation, Maryam and Edward Eisler, Navid Mirtorabi, Ziba Franks, Elie Khouri, Fatima and Essi Maleki, Nazee Moinian, Mahshid and Jamshid Ehsani, and Narmina and Javad Marandi.

Activist Print
Through October 29, 2017

Activist Print is a collaboration between The Warhol, BOOM Concepts (a creative hub for artists to incubate ideas), and the North Side printmaking studio Artists Image Resource (AIR). Activist Print is inspired by the long history of artists using silkscreen and print-based media to raise awareness of contemporary issues and inspire change. Three Pittsburgh artists, Bekezela Mguni, Paradise Gray, and Alisha B. Wormsley, have been invited to create socially and politically inspired print work in this yearlong project. The Activist Print series is exhibited on the windows of the Rosa Villa, a building across the street from The Warhol.

Programs

National Coming Out Day
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Gallery Talks – 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Button-making – 1:30-5 p.m.

Celebrate National Coming Out Day at The Andy Warhol Museum! National Coming Out Day is an annual LGBTQ+ awareness day which places emphasis on the importance of coming out to friends, family, and colleagues. Coming out is a deeply personal act which can foster acceptance and understanding of different sexual orientations and gender identities in our community. In honor of this holiday, the museum will pay tribute to Warhol’s legacy as an openly gay icon.

Both of The Warhol’s daily gallery talks will focus on one of Warhol’s boyfriends and their impact on Warhol’s art and career. In The Factory, the museum will offer a button-making activity with a variety of queer-themed imagery to choose from. Tours meet on the museum’s seventh floor. Button-making takes place in The Factory.
Free with museum admission

Sound Series: Arto Lindsay & Beauty Pill
Wednesday, October 18, 2017 – 8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

The Warhol welcomes Arto Lindsay, who has long stood at the intersection of music and art, collaborating with artists such as Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Animal Collective, Matthew Barney, and Caetano Veloso. As a member of DNA, he played a significant role in the foundation of the no wave genre in late 1970s in New York City, along with artists Suicide and Glenn Branca. As leader of the Ambitious Lovers, he pioneered a hybrid of American and Brazilian styles. Current band members include Melvin Gibbs (Rollins Band), Kassa Overall, Paul Wilson, and Patrick Higgins. The band Beauty Pill from Washington, D.C., is led by singer/guitarist/producer Chad Clark. The group’s acclaimed last release Beauty Pill Describes Things as They Are highlights its lush arrangements and earned it a spot on NPR’s 50 best records of 2015.
Tickets $20/$15 members and students; visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Crossing the Red Line: Exhibiting Iranian Art in the US
Saturday, October 21, 2017 – 2 p.m.
City of Asylum @ Alphabet City

Co-presented with City of Asylum, Pittsburgh
Join us at City of Asylum for an afternoon with Dr. Shiva Balaghi, an independent scholar and curator based in Los Angeles. For nearly two decades, Dr. Balaghi taught cultural history at NYU and Brown University. She authored Picturing Iran: Art Society and Revolution and writes regularly for museums and art publications. Most recently she has contributed to the catalogue for Farhad Moshiri: Go West, the first museum solo for one of Iran’s most prominent artists.
Free; registration is suggested for all free events; visit warhol.org

2017 Teacher Open House
Thursday, October 26th, 2017 – 4:30-8:30 p.m.

The Warhol’s annual open house event just for teachers featuring food, drinks (cash bar), our latest exhibition, lectures, gallery talks, art making activities, discussions, and classroom resources. Teachers in attendance may receive Act 48 credit hours and information about school partnership opportunities.
Free parking available in The Warhol lot.
Tickets $10; visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

CANCELLED
Sound Series: Imarhan
Friday, October 27, 2017 – 8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

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). Tickets $20/$15 members and students; visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Dandy Andy: Warhol’s Queer History
Saturday, October 28, 2017 – 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

Cowboy Cinema
Friday, November 3, 2017 – 7 p.m.
The Warhol theater

Artist Farhad Moshiri’s lavish canvases draw inspiration from the tropes of the classic American Westerns he absorbed as a child in his father’s cinema in Iran. For artists like Moshiri and Andy Warhol alike, the cowboy represents an enduring symbol of American identity, culture, and aspiration, and serves as fodder for their own pop compositions. Join film scholar Dr. Mark Best and chief curator Jose Diaz as they discuss campy clips from Elvis Presley’s Flaming Star, John Wayne classics dubbed in Farsi, the Marx Brothers’ Go West, Andy Warhol’s Lonesome Cowboys, and more, unpacking the romantic myth of the cowboy and its influence in global popular culture.
This event is sponsored by the Film Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh.
Free; registration is suggested for all free events; visit warhol.org

Sound Series: SQÜRL featuring Jim Jarmusch & Carter Logan: Four Films by Man Ray
Saturday, November 4, 2017 – 8 p.m.
Carnegie Lecture Hall (Oakland)

Co-presented with Carnegie Museum of Art
The Warhol welcomes SQÜRL, featuring the iconic independent filmmaker and musician Jim Jarmusch and producer/composer Carter Logan. The band, self-described as a “marginal rock band from New York City who like big drums & distorted guitars, cassette recorders, loops, feedback, sad country songs, molten stoner core, chopped & screwed hip-hop,” began in 2009 and has released records on ATP and Third Man Records. In 2014, the group received the Cannes Soundtrack award for its score for the film Only Lovers Left Alive, a collaboration with Dutch lutenist Jozef Van Wissem. In this program, the band performs live scores to four films by Dada and surrealist artist Man Ray. The program features L’Étoile de mer (1928), Emak Bakia (1926), Le Retour à la Raison (1923), and Les Mystères du Château de Dé (1929).
Please note, photography, film, and video of any kind are strictly prohibited.
Tickets $20/$15 members and students; visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Sound Series: Matthew Shipp Trio with special guest Thoth Trio
Friday, November 10, 2017 – 8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

Co-presented with City of Asylum @ Alphabet City
The Warhol welcomes back the forward-thinking and iconoclastic jazz pianist Matthew Shipp, with his trio featuring Michael Bisio on bass and Newman Taylor Baker on drums. For over three decades, since getting his start in the early 1990s with David S. Ware Quartet, Shipp has been a pioneer in the New York City experimental jazz scene along with composers such as John Zorn and William Parker. All About Jazz writes that the trio’s new album, Piano Song, “feels like an entirely fresh take on the piano trio, a vibrant continuum of sounds that avoids the pitfalls of both mainstream and avant-garde music.” Pittsburgh experimental jazz stalwart Thoth Trio, featuring Ben Opie (sax), Paul Thompson (bass), and David Throckmorton (drums), opens the show.
Tickets $15/$12 members and students; visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Sound Series: Luna with special guest Eleanor Friedberger
Wednesday, November 15, 2017 – 8 p.m.
Carnegie Lecture Hall

Co-presented with WYEP
The Warhol welcomes back the highly influential indie rock band Luna, on a tour supporting their latest release on Double Feature Records, A Sentimental Education, consisting of 10 covers by an impressive array of artists such as Fleetwood Mac, The Cure, Mercury Rev, David Bowie, and Bob Dylan. Eleanor Friedberger (Fiery Furnaces) opens the show with a solo performance.
Tickets $25/$20 members & students; visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Dandy Andy: Warhol’s Queer History
Saturday, November 25, 2017 – 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

Day With(out) Art: ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS
Friday, December 1, 2017 – 7 p.m.
The Warhol theater

Co-presented with Visual AIDS
The Warhol and Visual AIDS present ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS, the 28th iteration of Visual AIDS’ longstanding Day With(out) Art project. Curated by Erin Christovale and Vivian Crockett for Visual AIDS, the video program prioritizes Black narratives within the ongoing AIDS epidemic, commissioning seven artists—Mykki Blanco, Cheryl Dunye & Ellen Spiro, Reina Gossett, Thomas Allen Harris, Kia Labeija, Tiona McClodden and Brontez Purnell—to create new and innovative short videos.

The commissioned projects include intimate meditations of young HIV positive protagonists; a consideration of community-based HIV/AIDS activism in the South; explorations of the legacies and contemporary resonances within AIDS archives; a poetic journey through New York exploring historical traces of queer and trans life, and more. Together, the videos provide a platform centering voices deeply impacted by the ongoing epidemic.

This project is supported by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts and the generous support of The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation.
Free; registration is suggested for all free events; visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Half-Pint Prints
Saturday, December 2, 2016 – 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

A John Waters’ Christmas: Holier & Dirtier
Saturday, December 8, 2017 – 8 p.m.
Carnegie Lecture Hall (Oakland)

The Warhol welcomes back the legendary writer and director, John Waters, (Pink Flamingos, Hairspray, Cry Baby), to the Carnegie Lecture Hall with his critically acclaimed one-man show, A John Waters Christmas. Torn between capitalism and anarchy, Waters offers his hilariously incisive take on “Christmas crazy”, spreading his subversive yuletide cheer and lunacy while posing provocative holiday questions, such as “Is Prancer the only gay reindeer?” and “Should you disrupt living crèche celebrations this year in the name of political action?”
Please note this performance contains adult subject matter and strong language.
Doors open at 7:00 p.m.
Tickets $30/$25 members & students, VIP $125 (includes general admission seating and post-show meet & greet); visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Dandy Andy: Warhol’s Queer History
Saturday, December 30, 2017 – 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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