Andy Warhol News

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.

From the company that brought you Manifest Destiny!, The Circuit, and the Porous Borders Festival, comes a new original and explosive site-specific work: The The Radicalization Process. The Hinterlands will perform The Radicalization Process from April 21- May 7 (Thursdays through Saturdays) at 8:00 PM at Play House (12657 Moran Street, Detroit) at 8PM. Tickets are sliding scale $10-30. For reservations please call 313.454.1756 or email info@thehinterlandsensemble.org.

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).

TMD PRODUCTIONS will present the World Premiere of ELECTRICITY, written by Terry Ray, produced by Michael Darner and directed by Steven Rosenbaum.  ELECTRICITY will preview on Thursday, April 21 at 8pm; will open on Friday, April 22 at 8pm and run through Sunday, May 22 at the Two Roads Theatre, 4348 Tujunga Blvd. in Studio City.

Producers Cameron Mackintosh and The Really Useful Group announced today principal cast changes for the Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, directed by Harold Prince.   The longest-running show in Broadway history, and one of the most successful stage productions of all-time, PHANTOM will welcome two new principal actors beginning Monday, April 4.

Due to popular demand Abrons Arts Center and New York City Players are adding three additional performances of Really, a new play written by Jackie Sibblies Drury, directed by Richard Maxwell and designed by photographer Michael Schmelling. Performed by Elaine Davis, Tavish Miller and Kaneza Schaal, Really is a play about grief, intimacy and the difference between goodness and greatness seen through the lens of photography. A black woman takes pictures of her artist boyfriend's mom. As they jockey for a claim to him, they try to redefine themselves in the wake of his legacy.

It's tempting to neglect the splendor of landscapes in modern life due to the distractions of cutting-edge technology and busy lifestyles. But a new exhibit, entitled “Field and Stream: Nature's Beauty from the Permanent Collection,” now on view at the Canton Museum of Art (CMA) through July 17, 2016, proves that doesn't have to be so. The new exhibit features stunning views from over 40 American artists in the CMA Collection: Thomas Hart Benton, Charles Kaelin, Ethel Magafan, Honorè Guilbeau, Virginia Cuthbert, and more.

Striking portraits of some of the twentieth century's most powerful leaders including Castro, Pinochet and Brezhnev by the American artist Leon Golub are to go on display at the National Portrait Gallery on 18 March, it was announced today (Monday 14 March.) They are being shown for the first time in the United Kingdom. 

On March 18, 2016, The Met will launch its inaugural season at The Met Breuer, its new space dedicated to modern and contemporary art.

Striking portraits of some of the twentieth century's most powerful leaders including Castro, Pinochet and Brezhnev by the American artist Leon Golub are to go on display at the National Portrait Gallery on 18 March, it was announced today (Monday 14 March.) They are being shown for the first time in the United Kingdom. 

On Wednesday, 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 Film Society of Lincoln Center announces the complete lineup for An Early Clue to the New Direction: Queer Cinema Before Stonewall, April 22 - May 1.

After making his rounds in NY's Broadway Scene, Daniel J. Watts has stormed onto VINYL as the incomparable funk singer, Hannibal. I had the chance to speak to him last week. Pardon me, while I swoon.

Today, March 12, the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers will open Dreamworlds and Catastrophes, an exhibition exploring Soviet artists' engagement with science, technology, and design at the height of the Cold War.

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.

Champagne Jerry, Neal Medlyn's hip-hop project/ performance piece, has presented a series of shows and assets in anticipation of the release of his second LP. Clips and brand new music videos were unveiled leading up to today, March 2nd, 2016 when Champagne Jerry's 2nd LP is available via champagne bottle-shaped USB drives exclusively at the run of live shows at New York Live Arts.

Am 25. Februar feierte das Gartnerplatztheater Munchen mit Galt MacDermots Rock Musical HAIR Premiere in der Reithalle. In keinem Musical wurden die Ideale der Hippie-Generation so auf den Punkt gebracht wie in diesem Broadway-Hit von 1967. 47 Jahre nach der skandalumwitterten deutschen Erstauffuhrung im Oktober 1968 im Munchner Theater in der Brienner Straße ist das Hippie-Happening jetzt wieder in Munchen zu erleben - mit der großartigen Rockmusik von damals, neu in Szene gesetzt von Gil Mehmert und Melissa King.  Das Publikum bei der Premiere war euphorisch, und wegen der extrem großen Nachfrage wurde inzwischen noch eine Zusatzvorstellung anberaumt. Vorstellungen laufen noch bis 17 Marz, mit der Sondervorstellung am 12 Marz. Die Presse zeigte sich ahnlich begeistert von diesem betagten amerikanischen Klassiker, der heute wieder erschreckend aktuell ist. Das hatten die Kritiker zu sagen: