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Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Exhibitions

Farhad Moshiri: Go West
Through 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.

Programs

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 programs; Visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Half-Pint Prints
Saturday, December 2, 2017
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

Sensory-Friendly Event for Adults (21+): Farhad Moshiri
Wednesday, December 6
6–7:30 p.m.

Join The Warhol in our continued efforts to make our programming inclusive to all as we host a sensory-friendly gallery tour and hands-on workshop designed for adults with autism spectrum disorders and sensory sensitivities. This 90-minute program will feature a guided exploration of The Warhol’s collection, and an introduction to Farhad Moshiri: Go West, our special exhibition of work by contemporary Iranian artist Farhad Moshiri. Participants will have the opportunity to create their own artworks incorporating techniques displayed in the museum. This event takes place while the museum is closed to the general public. Preparatory materials and an orientation video will be emailed to participants in advance of the program. Contact access@warhol.org for any accessibility needs or concerns.
Free; Registration is limited to 15 participants; Visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Virtual Senior Academy: The Iranian Pop Art of Farhad Moshiri
Friday, December 8, 2017
1–2 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. Courses will focus on Iranian artist Farhad Moshiri and our current exhibition, Farhad Moshiri: Go West. The course explores Moshiri’s dazzling mixed media Pop canvases, conceptual connections between Moshiri and Warhol, and includes information about Warhol’s 1976 visit to Iran.
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
A John Waters’ Christmas: Holier & Dirtier
Friday, December 8, 2017
8 p.m.
Carnegie Lecture Hall (Oakland)

Co-presented with Carnegie Museum of Art
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

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

Join The Warhol in our continued efforts to make our programming inclusive to all as we host a sensory-friendly gallery tour and hands-on workshop designed for teens and young adults (ages 13-21) with autism spectrum disorders and sensory sensitivities. This 90-minute program will feature a guided exploration of The Warhol’s collection, and an introduction to Farhad Moshiri: Go West, our special exhibition of work by contemporary Iranian artist Farhad Moshiri. Participants will have the opportunity to create their own artworks incorporating techniques displayed in the museum. This event takes place while the museum is closed to the general public. Preparatory materials and an orientation video will be emailed to participants in advance of the program. Contact access@warhol.org to for any accessibility needs or concerns.
Free; Registration is limited to 15 participants; 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

Virtual Senior Academy: The Iranian Pop Art of Farhad Moshiri
Friday, January 5, 2018
2–3 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. Courses will focus on Iranian artist Farhad Moshiri and our current exhibition, Farhad Moshiri: Go West. The course explores Moshiri’s dazzling mixed media Pop canvases, conceptual connections between Moshiri and Warhol, and includes information about Warhol’s 1976 visit to Iran.
Visit virtualsenioracademy.org, sign up, browse for the courses taught by The Warhol and register.
Free to all VSA participants (registration is free)

Art in Context: Border Crossings
Friday, January 5, 2018
7 p.m.
The Warhol theater

Artists, scholars, and community members come together to consider creative expression in relation to timely political and social concerns. Explore shifting perspectives on historic and contemporary immigrant and refugee experiences in Pittsburgh and beyond. In a complex and contentious era of border closures, anti-immigrant rhetoric, and isolationism, what role do artists play in maintaining the free exchange of ideas across cultural boundaries?
Panel participants include Betty Cruz, Founder of Change Agency; Tuhin Das, ICORN writer-in-residence at City of Asylum; Anne Madarasz, Director of the Curatorial Division, Chief Historian, and Director of the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum at the Heinz History Center; Grant Oliphant, President of The Heinz Endowments; and John Righetti, President of the Carpatho-Rusyn Society.
Free; Registration suggested; Visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Sound Series: Beyond: Concert 1 featuring the Beyond Festival Orchestra
Thursday, January 11, 2018
8 p.m.
Carnegie Music Hall (Oakland)

Co-presented by the Music on the Edge series of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Music
The first concert of the Beyond Microtonal Musical Festival and Symposium features NYC chamber group LOADBANG, clarinettist David Krakauer, famed oud-player Rahim Alhaj with percussionist Issa Malluf, and the Beyond Festival Orchestra conducted by Gil Rose.
This season’s Festival and Symposium focuses on the theme of “Cultural Roots/Cultural Intersections” and explores compelling microtonal music that travels across cultural boundaries.Through three days of concerts and symposia, Beyond addresses the nature and current status of “microtonal music” and especially its relationship to World Music as well as the diversity within our own community.
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: Beyond: Concert 2 featuring LOADBANG
Friday, January 12, 2018
7:30 p.m.
The Warhol theater

Co-presented by the Music on the Edge series of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Music
The second concert of the Beyond Microtonal Musical Festival and Symposium features the composer/curator of the Harry Partch Instrumentarium Charles Corey and violinist/improviser Luke Fitzpatrick performing Partch’s Barstow and Li Po Settings and the powerhouse quartet LOADBANG performing works by Brook, Beglarian, Edgerton and others.
This season’s Festival and Symposium focuses on the theme of “Cultural Roots/Cultural Intersections” and explores compelling microtonal music that travels across cultural boundaries.Through three days of concerts and symposia, Beyond addresses the nature and current status of “microtonal music” and especially its relationship to World Music as well as the diversity within our own community.
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: Beyond: Final Concert featuring David Krakauer and Ancestral Groove
Saturday, January 13, 2018
8 p.m.
The Warhol entrance space

Co-presented by the Music on the Edge series of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Music
The final concert of the Beyond Microtonal Musical Festival and Symposium features oud musician Rahim Alhaj with percussionist Issa Malluf performing contemporary and traditional Iraqui music. David Krakauer and Ancestral Groove, the legendary klezmer band, closes out the festival.
This season’s festival will focus on the theme of “Cultural Roots/Cultural Intersections” and will explore compelling microtonal music that travels across cultural boundaries.Through three days of concerts and symposia, Beyond will address the nature and current status of “microtonal music” and especially its relationship to World Music as well as the diversity within our own community.
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: Jens Lekman
Saturday, February 3, 2018
8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

Co-presented with WYEP
The Warhol welcomes Jens Lekman, from Gothenburg, Sweden, to our intimate theater on a short solo tour. Lekman’s unique sensibility draws from his droll sense of humor, romance and melody, taking inspiration from artists such as Arthur Russell, The Magnetic Fields, Calvin Johnson, Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers. Lekman has an extensive catalogue of releases including his acclaimed full-length, Night Falls Over Kortedala (2007), I Know What Love Isn’t (2012), and Life Will See You Now (2017), all on Secretly Canadian Records.
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

Sound Series: Rostam with special guest Joy Again
Thursday, February 8, 2018
8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

Co-presented with WYEP
We welcome Grammy Award-winning producer and songwriter, Rostam on a tour supporting his new album, Half-Light on Nonesuch Records, featuring an array of lush and layered electro-pop compositions. Rostam, the son of Iranian refugees, studied classical music at Columbia University where met the other members of Vampire Weekend, and produced their three gold records, before departing the band in early 2016 to pursue his solo career. Philadelphia-based Joy Again opens the evening.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Free parking available in The Warhol lot.
Tickets $18/$15 members & students; visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Sound Series: Thurston Moore: Music + Radio Radieux: Film
Friday, February 9, 2018
8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

Co-presented with WYEP
The Warhol welcomes the inimitable songwriter/guitarist Thurston Moore to the museum’s intimate theater. On a brief solo acoustic tour, Moore will perform in front of atmospheric film projection, utilized on a recent tour with Yoko Ono. Known as a founder of the iconic underground/alternative rock band, Sonic Youth, Moore has also worked with a wide range of musicians such as John Zorn, David Toop, Cecil Taylor, Faust, and Glenn Branca. His most recent album with The Thurston Moore Group, Rock n Roll Consciousness, was recorded in The Church studios in London with producer Paul Epworth.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Free parking available in The Warhol lot.
Tickets $25/$20 members & students; visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Sound Series: Robert Black and Andrea Parkins
Saturday, February 10, 2018
8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

Co-presented by the Music on the Edge series of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Music
Robert Black performs Philip Glass’s The Not Doings of An Insomniac for solo double bass, which includes poetry by Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Yoko Ono, David Byrne, Leonard Cohen, and Patti Smith. Andrea Parkins presents her electroacoustic solo project, performed as a multi-diffusion work for electronically-processed accordion, objects, and live electronic processing.
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

Vintage Valentines Workshop at Ace Hotel
Sunday, February 11, 2018
1 p.m.
Ace Hotel Pittsburgh

Co-presented with Ace Hotel Pittsburgh
Show your love this Valentine’s Day with silkscreened tattoos and vintage valentines created in the style of Andy Warhol, using his blotted line, silkscreen, and rubber stamping processes. Sip a cocktail and create Warhol-inspired valentines in the Ace Hotel gym. A cash bar will be available.
Free; Registration is suggested; Visit warhol.org

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

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: 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

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

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

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.

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