Andy Warhol News

In View From Up Here, the new exhibition at the Anchorage Museum in Alaska, conceptual artist John Grade explores sculptural forms based on Japanese fishing floats. For the past century, floats made of thick, hand-blown glass have traveled to the Arctic coast from Asian waters, buoyed by harsh, ocean currents. They can get trapped in sea ice for decades, ultimately washing up on the Alaskan shoreline -- often in pristine condition. Grade created his own versions of blown glass forms, many of which are encased in a wood exoskeleton inspired by other organic, ocean bound elements.  

MILWAUKEE, May 18, 2016 /PRNewswire/The Milwaukee Art Museum board of trustees announced today it has selected Dr. Marcelle Polednik as the first Donna and Donald Baumgartner director. Polednik, currently the director and chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, joins the Museum at a significant time in its history after an extensive $34 million renovation, reinstallation and expansion project, and the historic acquisition of the O'Donnell Property. Polednik was selected after a robust national search from a field of dozens of candidates. She is expected to start working at the Museum in mid-August.

The Jewish Museum will present WISH YOU WERE HERE: GEORGE GERSHWIN on Tuesday, May 31 at 6:30pm. Jens Hoffmann, Deputy Director, Exhibitions and Public Programs, will speak with 'George Gershwin' as portrayed by pianist and playwright Hershey Felder.

As the summer festival season kicks into high gear, the time is ripe for a return to the soulful basics of electronic dance music with songs grounded in the human element. Justin Paul presents The Model's “Wrong Number” is just that kind of release.

LONDON, May 16, 2016 /PRNewswire/

ACA Galleries is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition, Michael Netter: Cryptographics, on view June 2 through July 29, 2016. The exhibition will feature paintings, video art and assemblages from the 1970s to the present.

Los Angeles, California – (March 29, 2016) – Julien's Auctions, the world record breaking auction house to the stars, has announced its biannual Street & Contemporary Art auction featuring extraordinary highlights from the world's most sought after street artists including anonymous graffiti artist Banksy, whose identity was recently revealed by scientists by using a modeling technique for tracking down and identifying potential criminal suspects. The Banksy artwork collection is a featured highlight in the upcoming Street & Contemporary Art Auction taking place on Today, April 30th, 2016 at the Julien's Auctions Los Angeles gallery and will feature over 200 lots.

Charles Gatewood (http://charlesgatewood.com) passed away peacefully this morning at 12:30am at San Francisco General Hospital. The famed photographer, videographer, and cultural anthropologist, Gatewood was 73 years old.

The building where the great playwright spent the first thirteen years of his life had been in a state of ruin.

On Tuesday, May 24, 2016, from 7:30PM to 10:00PM, Madison Square Park Conservancy and School of Visual Arts will host Dreaming Public Art, a free symposium featuring a keynote conversation with artist Martin Puryear and Columbia University art historian Dr. Kellie Jones. Martin Puryear's Big Bling will be on view in Madison Square Park from May 16, 2016 through January 8, 2017.

Layfayette artist, Lindsey Wohlman, was sympathetic to the Springfield Art Museum after learning the news that artwork from the Andy Warhol exhibition was stolen.  She wrote a letter offering to fill in the holes with her own artwork.  

Below, check out quotables from NBC's 'THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON' for the week of April 11 – April 15.

NEW YORK, April 13, 2016 /PRNewswire/ sbe, the Los Angeles-based leading lifestyle hospitality company that develops manages and operates award-winning hospitality venues, in collaboration with creative director and acclaimed photographer, Matthew Rolston, announce the completion of the first design phase of The Martha Washington Hotel's transformation to debut The Redbury New York. Beginning this week, The Redbury New York is officially open to guests for an immersive boutique hotel experience.

SINGAPORE - Indulge in residential hotel-living in an upscale Marina Bay penthouse at the newly transformed Ritz Suite which is located on level 32, the top floor of The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore.

On Today, April 13 at 8:00 p.m. at the fashion-forward Soho shoe boutique Fiorentini + Baker, Soldier Kane will play live (Soldier on violin and banjo, Kane on guitar and drums) in front of projections of Art Kane's groundbreaking photographs to celebrate the release of their new CD Soldier Kane on Mulatta Records as well as the success of the recently released Art Kane book from Reel Art Press.

The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University presents David A. Leffel: The Mastery of Light-A Retrospective from May 14 - August 7, 2016.  There will be a reception to meet the artist on Saturday, May 14, from 5 to 7 p.m. There is no admission charge and the public is invited to attend.

The fully realized AGITPROP! exhibition opens on April 6 at Brooklyn Museum with the addition of fifteen contemporary artists and collectives, nominated by the exhibition's second round of participants.

Los Angeles, California – (March 29, 2016) – Julien's Auctions, the world record breaking auction house to the stars, has announced its biannual Street & Contemporary Art auction featuring extraordinary highlights from the world's most sought after street artists including anonymous graffiti artist Banksy, whose identity was recently revealed by scientists by using a modeling technique for tracking down and identifying potential criminal suspects. The Banksy artwork collection is a featured highlight in the upcoming Street & Contemporary Art Auction taking place on Saturday, April 30th, 2016 at the Julien's Auctions Los Angeles gallery and will feature over 200 lots.

Miami, FL -- The Lowe Art Museum is fully reinstalling its collection of Modern and Contemporary works to accommodate a series of transformative loans from The Fairholme Unlimited Foundation, Inc. (a Florida not-for-profit corporation). These include ten color screen prints from Andy Warhol's iconic Mao (1972), Robert Mangold's Attic Series XI (1991), Henry Moore's Reclining Figure (1957), and six untitled screen prints from a portfolio by Jackson Pollock (1951-64).

Abrons Arts Center and New York City Players' American Playwrights Division present REALLY, a new play written by Jackie Sibblies Drury, directed by Richard Maxwell and designed by photographer Michael Schmelling.