Andy Warhol News

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the next event for the CREATORS, COCKTAILS, & CONVERSATIONS series, presented by Bay Street Theater and Hamptons magazine. The series continues with 'Style Setters' tonight, July 10.

Piers Handling, Director & CEO of TIFF, tonight announced special programming taking place during the 2015 summer and fall seasons in celebration of the organization's 40th anniversary. The announcements were made at a free community party held in David Pecaut Square in downtown Toronto, prior to this season's first TIFF in the Park event, a screening of the 1992 Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award-winner Strictly Ballroom.

The Andy Warhol Museum announces, in collaboration with the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne, Australia, a major international exhibition featuring two significant artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries—Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei. Andy Warhol / Ai Weiwei opens at NGV in December 2015, and at The Warhol in June 2016.

Iconic British actor Julie Christie has confirmed that she will appear at this year's Holt Festival in North Norfolk.

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami) announced today that it will present a major solo exhibition dedicated to acclaimed video and performance artist Alex Bag during Art Basel Miami Beach 2015. On view in ICA Miami's Atrium Gallery, the show centers around one of Bag's key videos The Van (2001) and features a dramatic new site-specific installation created for the museum's current location in the landmark Moore Building in Miami's Design District.

Featuring some of Andy Warhol's most prolific pieces, Andy Warhol Revisited will offer Torontonians and guests to the city an opportunity to view one of the world's largest collections of original Warhol prints and paintings. Located in a 4,200 square foot pop-up gallery space at 77 Bloor Street West, the exhibit will be open to the public daily beginning today, July 1.

The Jewish Museum's 2015 slate of lectures, discussions, and events continues in July with a concert featuring violinist Todd Reynolds, part of the Museum's partnership with Bang on a Can; a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the exhibition, Repetition and Difference, with curators Susan L. Braunstein and Daniel S. Palmer; and Alexander Tochilovsky of Cooper Union discussing graphic design-related materials in the exhibition, Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television. In addition, the Whitney Museum of American Art and Cooper Union are co-presenting programs related to Revolution of the Eye.

PITTSBURGH – The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra presents a sensory-friendly orchestra performance, “Celebrate Pittsburgh,” today, June 27 at 2:30 p.m. at Heinz Hall.

The 9th Annual Welcome to Boog City Festival -- 5 Days of Poetry, Music, and Theater -- is headed to New York City!

Ten letters and card written to veteran publicist /author Walter Newkirk (memoraBEALEia, Letters of Little Edie Beale, The Secret Life of Walter Newkirk) will be auctioned by Julien's Auctions today and tomorrow, June 26 and June 27.

Featuring some of Andy Warhol's most prolific pieces, Andy Warhol Revisited will offer Torontonians and guests to the city an opportunity to view one of the world's largest collections of original Warhol prints and paintings. Located in a 4,200 square foot pop-up gallery space at 77 Bloor Street West, the exhibit will be open to the public daily beginning Wednesday, July 1.

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the next event for the CREATORS, COCKTAILS, & CONVERSATIONS series, presented by Bay Street Theater and Hamptons magazine. The series continues with 'Style Setters' on July 10. Enjoy a glass of wine and join fashion veterans as they discuss their inspiration, ideas, and iconic career moments. The third event will be 'Design in Mind' on August 21 with interior design experts. The series is sponsored by Harbor's Edge Condominiums. The events will be moderated by Samantha Yanks, Editor-in-Chief, Hamptons magazine. All events start at 5 pm. Tickets are $20 each and are available by visiting www.baystreet.org or by calling the Box Office at 631-725-9500.

The Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Company of Fools (COF) have been awarded two highly competitive grants-one from The Shubert Foundation and one from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Recognition from these two esteemed and influential organizations honors The Center's and COF's dedication to the arts as well as their excellence in programming.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre has announced that award-winning British actress Samantha Barks will star in the world premiere of AMELIE, A NEW MUSICAL directed by Tony Award winner Pam MacKinnon (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?).

Lincoln Center Out of Doors one of the country's longest-running, free, summer outdoor festivals opens its 45th season on July 22, 2015. A range of concerts, dance performances, family events, related film screenings, talks, and an exhibition will be presented across three weeks, from July 22 - August 9.

IRVINE, Calif., June 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ Translating a brilliant idea into a tangible plan begins on a desk or at a table where concept receives form, a map, or direction and finally, a working plan of action. That is precisely where the enigmatic and exploding mixed media visual artist, who goes by the name Kaleo, began infusing ROC with his energetic, thought-provoking and stimulating 'cerebral pop-art'; his popular 'Positive Pop' art series is featured in multiple ROC locations. Like all great ideas, tables were just the starting point - now Kaleo has just completed his 4th large format wall mural for ROC. The latest was just unveiled at ROC @TheVineOC/Irvine - come in and check it out!

When Sticky Fingers was first released in 1971, the iconic Andy Warhol 'zipper' album art, was considered too controversial and banned in Spain.