This is a follow up to our recent post about Andy Warhol (two days ago) that discusses a bit more about his legacy. I hadn’t thought that much about Warhol for a good while until the past couple of weeks.
A new show at the Milwaukee Art Museum explores paintings from Warhol’s last decade:
“When Andy Warhol died in 1987, the New York Times listed three possible birth dates in his obituary. His soup cans and portraits of Marilyn Monroe had been known in America for a quarter-century by that point, but much of the rest of his work and life remained cloaked in mystery. He had become easy to caricature as the silver-wigged, status-obsessed court painter of the coastal elite, and his critical reputation was suffering.
A new exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum, “Andy Warhol: The Last Decade,” revisits Warhol’s late series of paintings, many of which were not shown until after his death, arguing for their reevaluation. ARTINFO spoke with Joseph D. Ketner II, the curator behind the show, to discuss these works and Warhol’s final years.”
“Andy Warhol: The Last Decade” will be at the Milwaukee Art Museum through Jan. 3. It will then travel to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (Feb. 14–May 16, 2010), the Brooklyn Museum (June 18–Sept. 12, 2010), and the Baltimore Museum of Art (Oct. 17, 2010–Jan. 9, 2011).
(Via ARTINFO: News.)