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Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Exhibitions

Andy Warhol: Stars of the Silver Screen
Through September 24, 2017

The Andy Warhol: Stars of the Silver Screen exhibition explores Andy Warhol’s fascination with Hollywood, fame, and stardom. Warhol’s desire to look at the stars was ignited while attending his neighborhood cinemas with his brothers in gritty, industrial 1930s Pittsburgh. He reveled in the glamorous actors, elegant costumes, and sophisticated settings of the movies from Hollywood’s golden years. This exhibition considers celebrity through hundreds of archival items from The Warhol’s vast collection of Warhol’s personal items and related artworks, including paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, publications, film excerpts, television episodes, and video diaries. Part of Warhol’s Pop style had its genesis in images of the stars, and this exhibition examines some of the inspiration behind the work that kick-started the current age of global celebrity culture. Andy Warhol: Stars of the Silver Screen is generously supported by Cadillac.

Lawrence Weiner: OUT OF SIGHT
September 19–January 14, 2018

One of the central figures of Conceptual Art, Lawrence Weiner has engaged in a decades-long exploration of the form and content of language through sculptural installations. In OUT OF SIGHT, Weiner’s work takes on an immersive and interactive dimension, inviting visitors to engage with words through movement. While the same structure will be installed in cities and art institutions around the globe, each version will be uniquely activated by its local community, a singular embodiment of the intersection between art and audience. OUT OF SIGHT defies traditional notions of art as something to be viewed at a distance. Visitors are invited to walk, dance, and gather on top of it, exploring its messages and challenges through direct physical and mental connection. OUT OF SIGHT is organized by Larry Warsh. The Pittsburgh presentation is coordinated by Danielle Linzer, The Warhol’s curator of education and interpretation.

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’s work 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
Ongoing

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

Factory Swing Shift
Friday, September 15, 2017 – 5 – 9:30 p.m.
The Factory

The Factory stays up late! Visit The Warhol’s hands-on underground studio to make art after dark during Factory Swing Shift. Visitors can drop in to experiment with a range of materials and techniques in a relaxed creative environment with skilled artist educators, special guests, and music.
Free with museum admission

TQ Live!
Friday, September 15, 2017 – 8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

The Warhol hosts TQ Live!, which presents a queer evening of dazzling performance, dance, poetry, comedy, resplendent fantasies, music, and more. This third annual performance series features artists and performers from the many LGBTQIA communities in the Pittsburgh region. Hosted by Joseph Hall, the line-up of performers includes Jenny Johnson, #kNOwSHADE, Gray Swartzel and Veronica Vega, Moriah Ella Mason, Norman Freeman, Jennifer Meredian and Gia Calcalano, Blak Rapp M.A.D.U.S.A., and videos by Chris Vargas, Peter Clough, and Jeepneys. This program is produced by Scott Andrew, Joseph Hall, and Suzie Silver. This project is supported in part by the Carnegie Mellon University School of Art. Please note this performance contains adult subject matter and strong language.
Tickets $10 / $8 members & students; visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Night of 1,000 Marilyns
Saturday, September 16, 2017 – 8 p.m. VIP & General, 10 p.m. Late Night

Feel like a Hollywood star at The Warhol’s third annual fundraiser. This year’s theme, “Night of 1,000 Marilyns,” invites you to dress up as your favorite Hollywood silver screen star, like Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Marlene Dietrich, Jimmy Stewart, or Greta Garbo. Our seven floors are open to explore, and spaces are activated with a DJ, dancing, and an underground VIP lounge. The evening features a DJ set by Title Town, and a late-night drag show featuring Bambi Deerest, among others. Glam yourself up with Cardamone’s Salon free hair and makeup styling in The Warhol theater. This is the closing event for the exhibition Andy Warhol: Stars of the Silver Screen, which closes September 24, 2017. VIP tickets include access to the VIP lounge in The Factory underground studio, unlimited drinks, and hors d’oeuvres. Get the celebrity treatment in the VIP lounge with food, casino games, and portraits by caricature artist Jeffrey Harris. General admission tickets include one drink ticket and hors d’oeuvres. Late-night tickets include dessert. Cash bars are available. Wigs, glasses, and other iconic Warhol- and Marilyn-themed items are available for purchase in The Warhol Store. Tickets must be purchased in advance; no tickets will be sold at the door.
Night of 1,000 Marilyns is generously supported by Larrimor’s, Flaherty & O’Hara PC, FAROS Properties, Wigle Whiskey, Cardamone’s Salon, Vera Bradley South Hills Village, WHIRL Magazine, and Yelp. Free parking is available in The Warhol lot.
Tickets $200 VIP; $50 General Admission; $25 Late Night; visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Sound Series: Selector Dub Narcotic with special guest STRANGEWAYS
Thursday, September 21, 2017 – 8 p.m.
The Warhol entrance space

The Warhol welcomes back influential musician and producer Calvin Johnson with his new band, Selector Dub Narcotic, on tour supporting their new dance-friendly and beat-laden album This Party Is Just Getting Started. As founder of K, a record label and media outlet based in Olympia, WA, Johnson has provided an essential platform for countless Northwest artists including Mirah, The Blow, Built to Spill, and the Make-Up, and is best known as a member of the indie, twee giants Beat Happening. The eclectic and high-energy Pittsburgh-based DJ collective STRANGEWAYS (Jesse Ley and Jeff Van Fossen) opens the show.
Free parking is available in The Warhol lot.
Tickets $10 / $8 members and students; visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

Out of Sight Teen Night
Friday, September 22, 2017 – 6 – 9 p.m.
The Warhol entrance space

Co-presented with Girls Rock PGH and Girls Write
Join The Warhol as we team up with Girls Write Pittsburgh and Girls Rock PGH to present a night of music, art and fashion coinciding with Out of Sight, an interactive installation by artist Lawrence Weiner. Teens can participate in a two-hour long song writing workshop with Girls Write and see their songs come to life during a free performance by Girls Rock from 8 – 9 p.m. The evening also features a fashion showcase by our Summer Fashion Experience group, artmaking activities, and meet the members of our 2018 Youth Advisory Council.
FREE / $5 for songwriting workshop; register at warhol.org

RADical Day 2017, Featuring FREE admission
Tuesday, September 26, 2017 – 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Bring the whole family to The Warhol for a unique day of art and fun. While you’re here, visit The Factory underground to create your own work of art and don’t forget to make your own screen to share with friends and family. RADical Days is an annual event celebrating the region’s assets with free admission, musical and dance performances and family activities offered by arts and culture organizations, parks and recreation, and sports and attractions that are funded by RAD.
FREE

Erin Markey: BONER KILLER
Friday, September 29, 2017 – 8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

Co-presented with Carnegie Mellon University School of Art and School of Drama
Comprised of her signature story-driven stand-up and scored by sensual homemade pop, Erin Markey’s Boner Killer is an intimate musical conversation between what Markey thinks she can’t have and how she’d have it if she could. Driven by Whitney Houston’s lesbian mythologies, Europe™, and a Pretty Woman accident, Markey transforms personal humiliations into feminist hope. Markey and frequent collaborator Emily Bate make up the two-girl band responsible for original and sampled music sopping with emotion and troubled by knotty harmonies. 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

Sound Series: An Evening with Joan Shelley
Friday, October 6, 2017 – 8 p.m.
The Warhol theater

Co-presented with Calliope: The Pittsburgh Folk Music Society
The Warhol welcomes back Louisville, Kentucky-based singer/songwriter Joan Shelley. She returns to our intimate theater with collaborator Nathan Salsburg supporting her latest release, a self-titled album on No Quarter Records. The new record, produced by Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, takes a different approach than her acclaimed last release Over and Even, which NPR’s Bob Boilen declared “one of the most beautiful records of the year.” The new record still reflects the influence of American and British folk revivalists Sandy Denny and Vashti Bunyan, though Shelley also channels Michael Hurley-inspired melodies. Guitarist James Elkington, opens the evening.
Tickets $15 / $12 members and students; visit warhol.org or call 412-237-8300

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 and University of Pittsburgh film studies program
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. The Warhol has been fortunate to develop a strong relationship with members Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips, through their involvement with the performance/film commissions 13 Most Beautiful, Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests and Exposed: Songs for Unseen Warhol Films. The latter project also included Eleanor Friedberger (Fiery Furnaces) who 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

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

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.

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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