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Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Exhibitions

Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby
Through 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.

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 Warhol.

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

2018 Teacher Open House
Thursday, October 25
4:30–8:30 p.m.

Our 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. Sponsored by NOVA Chemicals.
Free parking available in The Warhol lot.
Tickets $10 (includes museum admission, studio materials, tour of exhibition, lite bites); Visit warhol.org

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

Screening of The Chelsea Girls
Friday, November 9, 2018
7 p.m.
The Warhol theater

The Warhol presents Andy Warhol’s epic double-screen masterpiece The Chelsea Girls in a new digital film transfer. Each of the film’s segments are tableaux featuring beauty, sex, drugs, and danger that give viewers a genuine glimpse into Warhol’s 1960s underground world. The film screens in celebration of the new publication Andy Warhol’s The Chelsea Girls edited and with text by the museum’s film curators Geralyn Huxley and Greg Pierce.
Free; Registration is required; Visit warhol.org

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

Art in Context: Visibility and Erasure
Friday, November 30, 2018
7 p.m.

Join us for the Pittsburgh premiere of Happy Birthday, Marsha! followed by a discussion about visibility, representation, and authorship with filmmakers Tourmaline and Sasha Wortzel, moderated by local advocate Ciora Thomas. Happy Birthday, Marsha! imagines iconic transgender performer and activist, Marsha ‘Pay it No Mind’ Johnson in the hours before the 1969 anti-policing riots at the Stonewall Inn in New York City. Starring Independent Spirit Award Winner Mya Taylor with cinematography by Arthur Jafa, Happy Birthday, Marsha! blends documentary storytelling with historical fiction to counter the endemic erasure of trans women of color from narratives of political resistance.
Free; registration is required; Visit warhol.org

Teacher Workshop: Silver and Gold
Friday, December 7, 2018
4:30-7:30pm

Explore Andy Warhol’s use of silver and gold throughout his career, from his gold Marilyns and Jackies to Elvis on the silver screen. Practice Warhol’s technique of gold leafing, found in the embellishment of his much-loved holiday cards and illustrations from the 1950s. Experiment with rubber stamping, blotted-line, and silkscreen printing to create holiday cards and wrapping paper. ACT 48 credit will be available for this workshop.
Tickets $30 (includes museum admission, workshop materials, and one drink ticket); Visit warhol.org

A John Waters’ Christmas: Holier & Dirtier
Saturday, December 8, 2018
8 p.m.
Carnegie Lecture Hall (Oakland)

Co-presented with Carnegie Museum of Art
The Warhol welcomes back by popular demand, the legendary writer and director, John Waters, (Pink Flamingos, Hairspray, Cry Baby), to the intimate 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.
VIP tickets include general admission seating and post-show meet and greet.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets $30/$25 members and students; $125 VIP; Visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

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)

Co-presented with PearlArts Studios
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 organized by Jessica Beck, the Milton Fine Curator of Art at The Andy Warhol Museum 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

Special Holiday Hours
Monday, December 31, 2018
10 a.m.–5 p.m.

The Warhol will be open on Monday, December 31 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sound Series: Adam Green’s Aladdin
Friday, January 11, 2019
8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

The Warhol welcomes musician, artist and filmmaker, Adam Green for a unique evening featuring a solo acoustic performance of songs from his second feature film Adam Green’s Aladdin, followed by a full screening of the film. Shot entirely on papier-mache sets designed by Green, this immersive fantasy film stars an eclectic cast including Macaulay Culkin, Natasha Lyonne, Alia Shawkat, Jack Dishel and Francesco Clemente – with Green playing Aladdin. In Green’s take on this classic tale, the lamp is a 3-D printer, the Princess is a decadent socialite, the planet gets a sex-change, and its population prints out an analogue version of the Internet. Green is perhaps most known as one-half of The Moldy Peaches (along with Kimya Dawson) who provided the soundtrack to the Academy Award winning film Juno (2007).
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets $15/$12 members and students; Visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Sound Series: Transient Canvas
Saturday, January 19, 2019
8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

Co-presented by Music on the Edge series of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Music
Praised by the Boston Globe as “superb”, Amy Advocat and Matt Sharrock have been blazing their own trail as the bass clarinet/marimba duo Transient Canvas since 2011. They have premiered over 80 works and continue to perform across the US and abroad. They have been presented by the Alba Music Festival (Alba, Italy), Composers, Inc. (San Francisco, CA), and Outpost Concert Series (Los Angeles, CA), among others. Their debut album Sift is available on New Focus Recordings.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: advance $15/$10 students and seniors; door $20/$15 students and seniors; visit warhol.org or call the University of Pittsburgh Stages Box Office, 412-624-7529

Sound Series: Da Capo Chamber Players
Saturday, February 2, 2019
8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

Co-presented with Music on the Edge series of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Music
The Naumburg-Award winning Da Capo Chamber Players has established itself as one of the foremost chamber ensembles in the United States. Hailed for its “agile, hair-raising” performances (The New York Times), Da Capo has long been a leader in contemporary music, pointing with pride to more than 100 works written especially for the ensemble. Recent and upcoming highlights include critically-acclaimed performances of the music of George Perle and Arnold Schoenberg, music of George Crumb.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: advance $15/$10 students and seniors; door $20/$15 students and seniors; visit warhol.org or call the University of Pittsburgh Stages Box Office, 412-624-7529

Sound Series: An Evening with Xiu Xiu (Solo)
Friday, February 8, 2019
8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

The Warhol welcomes Jamie Stewart from the experimental rock band, Xiu Xiu, for an intimate release show for the band’s new album Girl with Basket of Fruit, produced by Xiu Xiu’s Angela Seo and Deerhoof’s Greg Saunier, and released on Polyvinyl. The evening will also feature songs from the band’s varied catalogue. Since forming in 2002 and over the course of releasing ten albums, the band has uniquely and subversively blended pop and darker, more dissonant sensibilities both sonically and lyrically.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets $20/$15 members and students; Visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Half-Pint Prints
Wednesday, February 13, 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

Sound Series: An Evening with Nellie McKay
Friday, February 15, 2019
8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

Co-presented with WYEP
The Warhol welcomes back the inimitable musician and songwriter, Nellie McKay, for a special day-after-Valentines day performance of her latest record, Sister Orchid, featuring her unique and bittersweet take on love song standards such as Nearness of You, My Romance, and In a Sentimental Mood. McKay acknowledges in the liner notes that “this album speaks of the night, the outsider, the plaintive wail of those lost at sea.” McKay also has received many accolades for her work off-Broadway, including Old Hats and A GIRL NAMED BILL – The Life and Times of Billy Tipton, and is the recipient of PETA’s Humanitarian Award and the Humane Society’s Doris Day Music Award in recognition of her dedication to animal rights.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $30/$25 members & students; Visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Sound Series: Jonathan Wilson
Monday, February 25, 2019
8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

The Warhol welcomes songwriter, guitarist and producer Jonathan Wilson for a special acoustic performance in the Museum’s intimate theater, on a tour supporting his fourth album, Rare Birds on Bella Union. Wilson has recently been touring as a guitarist with Roger Waters, and also produced and recorded Waters’ Is This the Life We Really Want? at his Five Star Studio in L.A., which featured guest appearances by Lana Del Rey, Father John Misty, Lucius, and Laraaji. Wilson is often credited as being at the nexus of the Laurel Canyon music scene revival and has recorded and been a guitarist for wide range of artists such as Dawes, Erykah Badu, Phil Lesh, Elvis Costello, Jackson Browne, and Will Oldham.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $18/$15 members & students; Visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Sound Series: Princess
Friday, March 1, 2019
8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

The Warhol welcomes the performance duo, Princess, comprised of Alexis Gideon and Michael O’Neill (JD Samson & MEN), who use music as the backbone of a multi-disciplinary practice that often explores issues of queerness and the concept of masculinity. Simultaneously gay, straight, queer, masculine, and feminine, Princess embodies the fluidity and coherence between the seemingly contradictory. The duo’s Out There is a concept video album and live performance. Released song-by-song, each episode stands alone and moves the narrative forward to a conclusion. Out There reclaims the original power of MTV by building on the long legacy of concept albums like Ziggy Stardust and Deltron 3030.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $12/$10 members & students; Visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Sound Series: Mivos String Quartet
Saturday, March 2, 2019
8 p.m.

Co-presented with Music on the Edge series of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Music
The Mivos Quartet is devoted to performing works of contemporary composers and presenting new music to diverse audiences. Since the quartet’s beginnings in 2008 they have performed and closely collaborated with an ever-expanding group of international composers representing multiple aesthetics of contemporary classical composition. They have appeared on prestigious series such as the New York Phil Biennial, the Darmstadt Internationalen Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (Germany), Shanghai New Music Week (Shanghai, China), and Lo Spririto della musica di Venezia (La Fenice Theater, Italy). Mivos is also committed to working with guest artists, exploring multi-media projects involving live video and performing improvised music.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: advance $15/$10 students and seniors; door $20/$15 students and seniors; visit warhol.org or call the University of Pittsburgh Stages Box Office, 412.624.7529

Sound Series: Rafiq Bhatia: Breaking English
Thursday, March 7, 2019
8 p.m.
The Warhol entrance space

The Warhol welcomes composer, producer and guitarist, Rafiq Bhatia on a tour supporting his latest album Breaking English on Anti Records. This evening-length live performance, features Bhatia’s electroacoustic trio including Ian Chang (Son Lux, Joan As Policewoman) on electronic and acoustic drums and Jackson Hill (Xenia Rubinos) on bass and synthesizers. Following up on Bhatia’s two previous Sound Series performances, as guitarist with Son Lux, Breaking English pushes further at the boundaries of sound art and improvisation, while blending elements of both organic and mechanical, intimate and distant.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $20/$15 members & students; Visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

The Artist Up Close: Devan Shimoyama
Thursday, March 14, 2019
7 p.m.
The Warhol theater

Catalogue contributors, Jessica Beck, Emily Colucci, Alex Fialho, and Rickey Laurentiis, talk with Devan Shimoyama about his work and practice. This event serves as a closing dialogue for the exhibition, Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby, and offers a chance for the community to respond and meet the artist. Shimoyama and authors will be available to sign copies of the exhibition catalogue, which will be for sale in The Warhol Store.
Free; Registration is suggested; Visit warhol.org

Sound Series: Instruments of Happiness Guitar Quartet
Saturday, March 30, 2019
8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

Co-presented with Music on the Edge series of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Music
Instruments of Happiness is an electric guitar ensemble created by composer/guitarist Tim Brady. This ambitious project is dedicated to the performance of new music and includes a quartet, a professional orchestra of twenty guitarists and a 100-strong community-focused ensemble. “Electric guitarists Tim Brady, Gary Schwartz, Michel Héroux and Antoine Berthiaume give us tour de force performances, filled with precision, a flair for color, a total world of electric sounds that realize possibilities one might have dreamed about but rarely if ever experienced.” – Grego Appelgate Edwards, Gappelgate Classical-Modern Reviews.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: advance $15/$10 students and seniors; door $20/$15 students and seniors; visit warhol.org or call the University of Pittsburgh Stages Box Office, 412-624-7529

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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