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Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Exhibitions

Andy Warhol: Revelation
Through February 16, 2020

Andy Warhol: Revelation will be the first exhibition to comprehensively examine the Pop artist’s deeply rooted Catholic faith in relation to his artistic production.

Born in Pittsburgh to a devout Byzantine Catholic family, Warhol grew up attending multiple weekly services at his local church with his mother, Julia Warhola. For hours, he would stare at the icon paintings of Christ and the saints that hung in the elaborate iconostasis, or icon screen, at the front of the nave. Using The Warhol’s robust holdings of the artist’s early works, the exhibition will trace the influence of his religious roots in Pittsburgh to his Pop career in New York City.

Throughout his life as a celebrity artist, Warhol retained some of his Catholic practices when his peers were distancing themselves from their religious backgrounds. As a queer man, Warhol may have felt a sense of guilt and fear towards the Catholic Church, which kept him from fully immersing himself in the faith. Nevertheless, he used various media to explore this tension through his art.

Revelation will feature over 100 objects from the museum’s permanent collection, including archival materials, drawings, paintings, prints and film. Rare source material and newly discovered items will provide an intimate look on Warhol’s creative process. Through both obscure works such as the “sunset” film commission from 1967, and late masterpieces like the pink Last Supper (1986), the exhibition will present a fresh perspective on the artist.

Andy Warhol: Revelation is curated by José Carlos Diaz, chief curator at The Warhol. The exhibition includes a full-color catalogue with contributions from Diaz and Miranda Lash, curator of contemporary art at the Speed Art Museum.

Andy Warhol: Revelation is presented by Bank of America, and supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fine Foundation, and William A. Stevens.

Programs

Dandy Andy: Warhol’s Queer History
Saturday, October 26, 2019
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 Silent Disco
Saturday, November 2, 2019
6–10 p.m.

Co-presented with The Pittsburgh Center for Autistic Self-Advocacy and Autism Connection of Pennsylvania
Put on your most comfortable party outfit and join The Warhol for a sensory-friendly evening of dancing, socializing and artmaking. This event is planned specifically for and with individuals with autism spectrum disorders and those with sensory sensitivities. A live DJ will spin dance classics and take musical requests, and our adjustable wireless headphones will allow participants to choose their own volume levels or opt out. There will be an enclosed sensory friendly area on the first floor where partygoers can decompress or connect in a calm manner.
The Factory underground studio will be open for silkscreen printing and other art projects. Guests can also submit their own designs that will be turned into silkscreens and acetate collages for the event. To submit, email a high-resolution (300 dpi) jpeg image of your art to access@warhol.org by October 25, 2019.
This event is open to teens and their families from 6-8 p.m. and is 21+ after 8 p.m.
Tickets: $12/$8 members, seniors & students/$5 access/EBT card-holder; Visit warhol.org

2019 Teacher Open House
Thursday, November 7, 2019
4:30–8:30 p.m.

The Warhol’s annual open house event just for teachers featuring food, drinks (cash bar), the 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.
Sponsored by NOVA Chemicals.
Tickets: $10 (includes museum admission, studio materials, tour of exhibition, lite bites); Visit warhol.org

Sensory Friendly Event for Teens and Young Adults: Pop Portraits
Saturday, November 16, 2019
9–10:30 a.m.

Join The Warhol for an inclusive workshop for teens and young adults (ages 13-24) which focuses on Warhol’s pop portraits of famous icons. Participants will visit our galleries before the museum is open to the public and create their own collage and silkscreen portraits in our studio. Attendance is limited to 20 people, and pre-registration is required. A visual schedule and an orientation video will be provided prior to the event and participants will have a chance to discuss any other accommodations needed.
Free; Registration is required. Visit warhol.org

An Evening with Reza Aslan
Monday, November 25, 2019
7:30 p.m.
Carnegie Music Hall (Oakland)

Co-presented with Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures
Reza Aslan is an internationally renowned writer, commentator, professor, producer, and scholar of religions. In God: A Human History, he thoughtfully explores the history of religion as an attempt to understand the divine by giving God human traits and emotions. In layered prose and with accessible scholarship, Aslan cohesively roots out this humanizing impulse in order to develop a more universal spirituality.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Andy Warhol: Revelation.
Doors open at 7 p.m.
Tickets: $15-$35; Visit warhol.org

Dandy Andy: Warhol’s Queer History
Saturday, November 30, 2019
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

World AIDS Day with Visual AIDS & Jordan Eagles
Sunday, December 1, 2019
10 a.m.–5 p.m.

For World AIDS Day, The Warhol and Visual AIDS present a video screening for the thirtieth annual Day With(out) Art. This year’s program, STILL BEGINNING, features videos covering broad subject matter from anti-stigma work in New Orleans to public sex culture in Chicago. STILL BEGINNING features new work by Shanti Avirgan, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Carl George, Viva Ruiz, Iman Shervington, Jack Waters/Victor F.M. Torres, and Derrick Woods-Morrow. Visual AIDS is a non-profit that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over.
Responding to the exhibition Andy Warhol: Revelation, artist Jordan Eagles will create Illuminations, a light installation within the museum galleries. Working with blood donated from members of the LGBTQ+ community the artist will project images directly onto Andy Warhol’s paintings in order to address the stigma of HIV, the FDA’s discriminatory ban on blood donation by gay men, and the value of human life. Eagles is a New York-based artist who has been exploring the aesthetics and ethics of blood as an artistic medium since the late 1990s.
The Allies for Health + Wellbeing will be providing information and services for individuals living with, or at risk of HIV, viral hepatitis, and sexually transmitted infections.
Free video screening; Illuminations is free with museum admission.

Half-Pint Prints
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
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

Print Party
Friday, December 13, 2019
6–8 p.m.
The Factory

Join The Warhol’s Youth Arts Council for a closer look at Andy Warhol’s signature art making techniques. Spend the evening exploring the galleries, participating in teen led discussions and activities, and try your hand at silkscreen printing. Youth, ages 13-18, are welcome to attend. Space is limited.
Free; Registration is required. Visit warhol.org

Dandy Andy: Warhol’s Queer History
Saturday, December 28, 2019
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
Monday, December 30, 2019

The Warhol will be open from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. on Monday, December 30, 2019.

Revelation: A Conversation on Andy Warhol and Religion
Thursday, January 9, 2020
7–9 p.m.
The Warhol theater

Over the course of a prominent and prolific career, Andy Warhol both pictured religious subjects and practiced his religious faith. Yet in 20th century histories of modern American art, religion is largely excluded. Warhol was perhaps doubly excluded, as a gay man and a believing Christian, whose identity in the art world and in American society was made complicated by those identities.
This conversation between Erika Doss, professor of American studies at the University of Notre Dame, and Paula Kane, professor of religious studies at the University of Pittsburgh, considers what religion meant to Warhol, how his religious beliefs shaped and directed his art, and why religion “matters” in the history of American modernism.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Andy Warhol: Revelation.
Free; Registration is required. Visit warhol.org

Sound Series: Leyla McCalla
Thursday, February 6, 2020
8 p.m.
Carnegie Lecture Hall (Oakland)

The Warhol welcomes singer, songwriter, cellist and multi-instrumentalist Leyla McCalla to the Carnegie Lecture Hall. McCalla was born in New York City to Haitian immigrant parents, studied cello performance and chamber music at New York University, then moved to New Orleans where she became captivated by Louisiana Creole music and culture. She joined the Carolina Chocolate Drops string band, appearing on the group’s Leaving Eden album, before focusing on a solo career and debut album, Vari-Colored Songs, a tribute to Langston Hughes, in 2013, which was named album of the year by both the London Times and Songlines magazine. She has collaborated with an impressive and varied roster of artists such as Marc Ribot, Rhiannon Giddens and Louis Michot of the Lost Bayou Ramblers.
Doors open at 7 p.m.
Tickets: $20/$15 members & students; Visit warhol.org

Sound Series: Eko Chamber Collective
Thursday, February 20, 2020
8 p.m.
The Warhol entrance space

The Warhol welcomes Eko Chamber Collective, featuring an eclectic roster of Pittsburgh-based musicians including Herman Pearl, aka Soy Sos, (electronics), Brittany Trotter (flute), Anqwenique Kinsel (voice), Sadie Powers (bass), Paul Thompson (bass) and Brian Riordan (live processing). The collective is a live electro-acoustic ensemble that utilizes spatialized performance techniques that cater to reverberant spaces. With the use of a multi-channel sound system, the group creates an immersive sound environment by collaborating with the acoustics and architecture of spaces rather than working against them, and this site-specific performance has been developed with The Warhol entrance space in mind. Audience members are encouraged to move about the performance space, as the ensemble’s compositions are created to lend themselves to unique sonic experiences, which unfold differently depending on one’s vantage point.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $12/$8 members & students; 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.

Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh

Established in 1895 by Andrew Carnegie, Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh is a collection of four distinctive museums: Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Carnegie Science Center, and The Andy Warhol Museum. The museums reach more than 1.4 million people a year through exhibitions, educational programs, outreach activities, and special events.

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